A simple point
Nov. 8th, 2003 02:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaThe Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol not only of virulent racism, but of anti-Americanism, of aggressive ignorance, and of pathetic loserdom.
Using it as metonymic for a class of people is insulting to those people. If Dean can't think of a better term for "people in the South who get shafted by screw-the-poor policy" than "guys with Confederate flags in their trucks", he doesn't deserve to be my elected representative.
Using it as metonymic for a class of people is insulting to those people. If Dean can't think of a better term for "people in the South who get shafted by screw-the-poor policy" than "guys with Confederate flags in their trucks", he doesn't deserve to be my elected representative.
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Re: Yeah, but... :)
Date: 2003-11-09 05:19 am (UTC)