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Is the POW/MIA flag racist?
Posted on 8/12/15 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 8/12/15 at 1:58 pm
Newsweek writer Rick Perlstein seems to think that it is.
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"You know that racist flag? The one that supposedly honors history but actually spreads a pernicious myth? And is useful only to venal right-wing politicians who wish to exploit hatred by calling it heritage? It’s past time to pull it down.
Oh, wait. You thought I was referring to the Confederate flag. Actually, I’m talking about the POW/MIA flag."
"It memorializes Americans as the preeminent victims of the Vietnam War, a notion seared into the nation’s visual unconscious by the Oscar-nominated 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which depicts acts of sadism, which were documented to have been carried out by our South Vietnamese allies, as acts committed by our North Vietnamese enemies, including the famous scene pictured on The Deer Hunter poster: a pistol pointed at the American prisoner’s head at exactly the same angle of the gun in the famous photograph of the summary execution in the middle of the street of an alleged Communist spy by a South Vietnamese official."
"We’ve come to our senses about that other banner of lies. It’s time to do the same with this."
Posted on 8/12/15 at 2:01 pm to KSGamecock
Communists aren't real people, so no.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 2:40 pm to KSGamecock
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Oh, wait. You thought I was referring to the Confederate flag. Actually, I’m talking about the POW/MIA flag."
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Nerd.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 2:44 pm to DrunkenStuporMan
There is nothing inherently wrong with a nerd, this guy is much worse than a nerd.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 2:44 pm to KSGamecock
You whine about the quality of the OTB, then you start this shitbox thread?
Who cares what that guy says, you're only spreading his stupidity by bringing it here.
Who cares what that guy says, you're only spreading his stupidity by bringing it here.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 2:47 pm to Stonehog
Hey stonehog, it's nice to hear from you.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 5:32 pm to KSGamecock
The racist undertones of that flag are hard to deny
Posted on 8/12/15 at 6:01 pm to KSGamecock
I think these assholes are just having a contest to see who can be the most obnoxious and irritating liberal.
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