Because the goal is not to disempower white supremacists - this approach gives them a veto over the entire culture - but to make impossible the expression of patriotic embrace of the nation's traditions. To kill an idea, you need only make it impossible to communicate. https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1151484201704853505 …
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We'd immediately grasp this if it ran in the other direction. If some mainstream group - say, the Rotary Club - suddenly adopted the swastika, nobody would tell Nazis, "you have to stop using that, people will think you're Rotarians." The older, more entrenched meaning would win.
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If the Nazis want the American Founding, they will have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.pic.twitter.com/U388TfKqCN
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And so, the same goes for progressives who want to give it to them.
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The symbols of the American Founding are the patrimony of everyone loyal to the principles of the Founding. If you reject those principles on the Right, the symbols aren't yours to take. If you reject them on the Left, they're not yours to give away.
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American symbols have always been symbols of white supremacy. This “nation’s traditions” were enslavement of non-whites, a Native American genocide, and an extractive economic paradigm that puts the global south in poverty. All under your red, white, and blue.
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What would happen if the White Supremacists started using the rainbow flag? Culture clash.
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