Chris Pratt is a redneck racist.

[Anonymous]

I know it’s revolutionary roots and wouldn’t happily wear it if hadn’t been co-opted by libertarians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it’s revolutionary roots and wouldn’t happily wear it if hadn’t been co-opted by privileged white males who just want weed and guns don't really care about rights other than that

FTFY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You moron. Gadsden flag is revolutionary times. You don't even know what it means and yet it triggers you. Read a book, learn some history or STFU.

Funny, you still only know the old history of the flag, read up buddy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You moron. Gadsden flag is revolutionary times. You don't even know what it means and yet it triggers you. Read a book, learn some history or STFU.

Funny, you still only know the old history of the flag, read up buddy.

And because I suspect someone who writes "Gadsden flag is revolutionary times" doesn't spend a lot of time reading, here's one easy place to start:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-shifting-symbolism-of-the-gadsden-flag

You could also watch Ken Burns's Civil War. First episode, about half an hour in, there's an engraving of white Southerners protesting Lincoln's election. Note what flag is front and center.

[Anonymous]

This is how people sabotage themselves, by treating obvious innocence as if it were a huge crime.
The phrase is not racist.
Get over yourself, OP. I dislike the current occupant of the White House and what he represents just as much as you, but come on.

[Anonymous]

The Navy SEALs wear this patch.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A flag t-shirt makes him a racist?

Did you you read what is written on it? Do you know the significance of it?

I am a liberal non-white person with a graduate degree and I knew that the "don't tread on me" flag is associated with rednecks, but I didn't know the negative/racist significance of it until I googled it just now.

I doubt Chris Pratt of all people is more well versed in these issues than I am.

+2 Graduate educated, military wife and no idea. If it's at a store, you buy it. Apparently now everyone has to Google American symbols before wearing them just in case the KKK appropriated it first.

+3 What a ridiculous post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A flag t-shirt makes him a racist?

Did you you read what is written on it? Do you know the significance of it?

I am a liberal non-white person with a graduate degree and I knew that the "don't tread on me" flag is associated with rednecks, but I didn't know the negative/racist significance of it until I googled it just now.

I doubt Chris Pratt of all people is more well versed in these issues than I am.

+2 Graduate educated, military wife and no idea. If it's at a store, you buy it. Apparently now everyone has to Google American symbols before wearing them just in case the KKK appropriated it first.

+3 What a ridiculous post.

+4. Grad school and a CPA. Complete bleeding heart liberal. Had no idea what it was.

[Anonymous]

I know of the flags roots in the revolutionary war and that it was based on Franklin’s “Join or Die” political cartoon. I have never heard of it having a racist meaning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know of the flags roots in the revolutionary war and that it was based on Franklin’s “Join or Die” political cartoon. I have never heard of it having a racist meaning.

I have only see this slogan in the south. Cars with this bumper stickers in VA. The more south you go, the more you see cars with this sticker. It's not racist, but it is associated with the parts of the country that tend to be racist. Everytime I see this sticker, it's a white person in the car. I have never seen a black person have this on their car. Could be wrong, though. Maybe I would see black people in the deeper south with this on their cars, but I really don't really want to go that far south.

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Anonymous wrote:I know of the flags roots in the revolutionary war and that it was based on Franklin’s “Join or Die” political cartoon. I have never heard of it having a racist meaning.

It did for many years, but was co-opted by the Tea Party and other nasty people.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-shifting-symbolism-of-the-gadsden-flag

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Anonymous wrote:You moron. Gadsden flag is revolutionary times. You don't even know what it means and yet it triggers you. Read a book, learn some history or STFU.

Funny, you still only know the old history of the flag, read up buddy.

And because I suspect someone who writes "Gadsden flag is revolutionary times" doesn't spend a lot of time reading, here's one easy place to start:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-shifting-symbolism-of-the-gadsden-flag

You could also watch Ken Burns's Civil War. First episode, about half an hour in, there's an engraving of white Southerners protesting Lincoln's election. Note what flag is front and center.

Yeah. No. History Major Magna Cum Laude and JD order of the coif. Step off. I just don't allow every symbol and phrase to be co-opted into something it isn't. I am not that limp. I have a spine and I have perspective. You are just swayed by what your friends and twitter tell you. So try again. I served as an editor on my law schools Gender journal and when some people wanted to publish articles completely and only devoted to racial issues, I resisted the notion that Gender is a "fluid" term and gender includes race. This was 20 years ago. I resisted it then and I resist it now. So no. I believe that words and symbols have meaning and that we should respect those meanings. Go home.