about 20 yrs ago, u couldn't use the union jack outside of period pieces, because it had been so associated with the bnp and national front who used it so heavily that everyone else avoided it
You have Republicans who hold up elephants and Democrats that hold up donkeys. To the Republicans, the elephant means holding onto current values, being responsible financially, limiting government to a smaller role. To liberals, it means oppressing the poor, racism, and oppressing women. The Democrats, the donkey means using the government to help the poor, protecting the rights of minorities, and freedom. To conservatives, it means spreading corrupt ideas, destroying marriage, and stealing money from the rich to enable freeloading poor.
Now these two symbols haven't gotten to the point where they are offensive, but it's getting close.
To a Southerner, the confederate flag means their culture and all the good that goes along with it. To those outside who have been told it means racism and slavery, it means just that.
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(Anonymous) 2015-06-22 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2015-06-22 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)Now these two symbols haven't gotten to the point where they are offensive, but it's getting close.
To a Southerner, the confederate flag means their culture and all the good that goes along with it. To those outside who have been told it means racism and slavery, it means just that.
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(Anonymous) 2015-06-22 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)as a southerner - NO. it means everything that's wrong with our culture and history
i'm p sure this was written by a yankee with some weird romanticized view of the south who has also somehow never encountered a white supremacist irl