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So... if you have a legal right to hold a sign... you get sign spinners. The sign spinner has a legal right to hold a sign, and a legal right to wear a bowler hat. For a few months you have a sign spinner out there with a sign and a bowler hat on. Everyone knows that that guy with a bowler hat has a right to stand there with his sign. One day, he hangs his sign up on a nearby pole for a few minutes, and rests his bowler hat on the corner of the sign so people know, "Bowler hat guy is taking a leak, he'll be back in ten minutes." Eventually, by familiarity, the "right" to stand there is shifted from the person TO THE BOWLER HAT. And the next thing you know, it's "legal" to put up a sign as long as you hang a bowler hat off it. And then someone steals the bowler hat, so you PRINT A BOWLER HAT ON THE SIGN. Then you progressively make the bowler hat smaller and smaller...
This is the magic trick.
We see it all the time in other arenas. You put a bumper sticker on your car, next to an American Flag bumpersticker. Gradually, over time, the two are connected in people's minds. American Flag... Marine... American Flag... Marine... American Flag... Marine... Conclusion? Marines are MORE AMERICAN than you, and therefore have more legal rights than you. Why? Magic trick that's why. FLAG FLAG FLAG FLAG. Want to see it work? Put a rainbow flag on your car, and put an American Flag next to it. See how long it takes for someone to vandalize your car.
I am seeing it now with the Confederate Battle Flag. People put a Marines sticker on their car, and an American Flag on one side of it, and now... lately... for the last let's say... six weeks, I am seeing the Confederate Battle Flag on the other side of the Marines bumpersticker. Is this a good thing? No it sure as shit is not a good thing. But who will do something? No one, of course. Because there is also a rifle rack in the window of the truck. Message received. I am MORE THAN YOU. I have MORE RIGHTS. You are LESS THAN. And if you have something to say about it, I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU.
And the left lets this happen, not by permitting them to do it... but by accepting their terms. When people started putting the rainbow flag on their Priuses, they should have put the American flag next to it. But they didn't. They accepted that the Rainbow Flag is IN OPPOSITION to the American flag. And now we are seeing the Confederate Battle Flag being blithely, casually accepted next to the American flag. All I am saying is that "we" have as much right to the American flag as "they" do. But we aren't willing to accept the violence that will inevitably follow attaching the symbol to our causes. Because we accept their framing, their martyrdom, and their legal superiority over us.
This is the magic trick.
We see it all the time in other arenas. You put a bumper sticker on your car, next to an American Flag bumpersticker. Gradually, over time, the two are connected in people's minds. American Flag... Marine... American Flag... Marine... American Flag... Marine... Conclusion? Marines are MORE AMERICAN than you, and therefore have more legal rights than you. Why? Magic trick that's why. FLAG FLAG FLAG FLAG. Want to see it work? Put a rainbow flag on your car, and put an American Flag next to it. See how long it takes for someone to vandalize your car.
I am seeing it now with the Confederate Battle Flag. People put a Marines sticker on their car, and an American Flag on one side of it, and now... lately... for the last let's say... six weeks, I am seeing the Confederate Battle Flag on the other side of the Marines bumpersticker. Is this a good thing? No it sure as shit is not a good thing. But who will do something? No one, of course. Because there is also a rifle rack in the window of the truck. Message received. I am MORE THAN YOU. I have MORE RIGHTS. You are LESS THAN. And if you have something to say about it, I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU.
And the left lets this happen, not by permitting them to do it... but by accepting their terms. When people started putting the rainbow flag on their Priuses, they should have put the American flag next to it. But they didn't. They accepted that the Rainbow Flag is IN OPPOSITION to the American flag. And now we are seeing the Confederate Battle Flag being blithely, casually accepted next to the American flag. All I am saying is that "we" have as much right to the American flag as "they" do. But we aren't willing to accept the violence that will inevitably follow attaching the symbol to our causes. Because we accept their framing, their martyrdom, and their legal superiority over us.