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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@bcvote2017 I would like to see such a monument in Moscow and Beijing, yes.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@cavilrest I think nation's need to attend to their own sins. Canada need a monument to victims of colonialism.
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