1. Forget the slavery and Civil War. Think about what it means that Confederate flag was revived in 1950s & 1960s.
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2. Why was flag revived in 1950s and not earlier? Because when Jim Crow was entrenched, flag wasn't need to intimate blacks.
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3. The flag was revived in a period when African-Americans in South were getting increasing help from Federal gov't (Brown v. Board, etc).
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4. So the message of the flag was: the feds might try to help you, but remember who is the boss down here. We still rule.
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5. Decode that flag: "You think your friends in Washington will help you? March all you want. Doesn't matter. We still rule."
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6. So liberals, especially Northern liberals, are being more than clueless when they say that this is "only about symbols."
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7. Those symbols are exertion of raw power. That's why flag is defended. That's why flag is fought.
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8. Let's take another symbol. Gay Pride Parades. On on hand, just symbolic events, don't effect policy.
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9. But imagine living in a city with no gay pride parades (i.e. entire world before 1970s and much of the world now.)
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10. The world sans gay pride parade is different than ours in more than just symbolic ways.
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11. Pride parades don't just celebrate gay rights, they expanded what is politically imaginable and hence politically possible.
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@thephatic gay pride is a momentary occupation of the public sphere, a yearly reminder that we will take the space we need2 replies 12 retweets 16 likes - Show replies
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