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[โ€“] krashmo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think that's anywhere close to universally true but even if it is that's only one more example of why we should never listen to those kinds of people. That opinion is dumb, inaccurate, shallow, and more than a little white-washed.

This is similar to the line my neighbor tried to pull. He had one of those half-and-half flags that was the US flag on one side and Confederate battle flag on the other. Somebody came by in the dead of night and stole it. It became a big hoopla on the block. He tried to tell me, "It's got nothing to do with racism. It's just a rebel flag because we're just rebels in general and ain't nobody tell us what to do."

So have an anarchy flag or fly the Jolly Roger or something instead. For fuck's sake. I don't know if he actually believes that line of shit, or if it's just a cover. (He also has a Trump election sign, one of those corrugated plastic ones, stuck in his screen door. So I suspect the latter.)