I think the reason the Betsy Ross thing blew up so fast is there's a whole cultural economy built around purity spirals now. Staying current with what's Bad shows you belong. You gain status by finding new things to reject, and convincing others to reject them.
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You’re not seeing any consistency in the response to this vs the initial response to the Kaepernick/Nike campaign
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I think the point is less the consistency and more the lack of predictability. The targets are usually deliberately things you wouldn't have reasoned out on your own, because you're supposed to be here, listening to the marginalized voices.
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so in your estimation, who is the target here?
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The Betsy Ross flag. Like, knowing the K situation, I'm not surprised, but walking through the store and seeing these, with no social media prompting, I wouldn't have had the "right" reaction of outrage.
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so your take is that kaepernick/nike/twitteratti have contrived or exaggerated the ties to white supremacy in order to take down their true target, the betsy ross flag?
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There's no real target here, just a hunger for drama and righteous aggression. 'White Supremacy' is a supernatural conspiracy theory, and "the Betsy Ross flag is a symbol of white supremacy" means as much as "I saw Goody Osborn with the devil!"
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A hundred dollar bill isn't worth $100 because we value Ben Franklin 100x more than we value George Washington, they're just symbolic handles. Likewise, there's no need to quantify how 'white supremacist' the flag is, it's just a token in an outrage economy.
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