11. Pride parades don't just celebrate gay rights, they expanded what is politically imaginable and hence politically possible.
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13. In a still homophobic world, a pride parade is way of saying, "another world is possible.In this time & place we can live in the future"
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14. Let me suggest that the Confederate flag (or its absence) is like the pride parade: it helps shape what is imaginable & hence possible
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15. You have to imagine something before you can do it. Symbols, commemorations & public spaces shape the imagination.
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16. This is a little tangential but one thing conservatives are far better than liberals at is appreciating the role of symbols in politics.
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17. I'm getting some resistance from my pride analogy. Let me try & elucidate: both pride & fight against flag are about space public spaces
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18. One big reason to have Pride parades is to expand the safe public spaces where you can be openly queer.
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19. Getting rid of the Confederate flag in public buildings is also not just about symbols but making those safe public spaces for blacks.
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20. As I said, liberals aren't very good at thinking in symbols. They think in laws & procedures. But symbols matter.
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21. "We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges."
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22"The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge;rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all"
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23. To think symbols don't matter is to think that it doesn't matter if you give your sweetheart flowers on your anniversary or not.
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