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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Jun 2015

    Fairly soon, the Confederate flag will disappear from public buildings in the USA. And immediately after, we'll wonder why it took so long.

    4:48 PM - 22 Jun 2015 from Toronto, Ontario
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Jun 2015
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I'll confess as a historical materialist, I tend to be dismissive of symbolic fights like that over the Confederate flag. Yet they matter.

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      3. sean gallagher‏ @gallaghers 22 Jun 2015
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        @HeerJeet have you read Harari's Sapiens? the economic is pretty symbolic too, in many ways no more concrete than trinitarian disputes.

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      1. carlos‏ @caguirre94 22 Jun 2015
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        @HeerJeet @JamilSmith next we need to press Mississippi to replace its flag---which has the Confederate flag in it.

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      1. Joseph Hewitt (Hamster Herder)‏ @pyrrho12 22 Jun 2015
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        @HeerJeet And shortly after that, people claiming that they were the ones who supported taking it down all along.

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      1. Jose Gutierrez‏ @jgvti 22 Jun 2015
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        @HeerJeet @ZerlinaMaxwell and then we'll wonder how gun control wasn't the central issue of this sad event.

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      1. wittgenstein never hummed‏ @cavilrest 22 Jun 2015
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        @HeerJeet maybe there is a better--more thorough--approach than merely hiding divisive symbols...

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jun 2015

        @DougDucati It's just too bad Sherman didn't finish the job when he had the chance.

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      3. Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick‏ @MattLabor 23 Jun 2015
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        @HeerJeet @DougDucati We Americans are like that; same thing's been said about Patton & the Russkies, 'round the time of V-E Day.

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      1. Irene Cavalier‏ @Witiw 23 Jun 2015
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        @HeerJeet Oh because nine really decent people needed to be gunned down...etc. etc. etc.

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