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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 08:33 PM
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Poll question: I saw a strange bumpersticker. What does it mean?
On a big pickup: sticker showing the confederate flag, with text saying something like "you can have my flag when you forget about MLK Day"

I suppose Durham's in the South, but this is a solid Dem area, and I only very rarely see stuff like that here: the last really ugly sticker I saw ("Democrats suck" or some similar jabber) was about five years ago

So I'm trying to figure out what it means
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Davis_X_Machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 08:35 PM
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1. "My ethnic particularism...
...is as least as good as your ethnic particularism."

Complete mis-reading of MLK, and the CSA, but there it is.
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ogneopasno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 08:37 PM
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2. There's a truck around here that has a sticker on it that I keep trying to figure out, too.
It's of a silhouette of a woman on all fours overlaid with the confederate flag. I am a feminist, but so help me, every time I see it, I think, why yes indeed, screw the south!

But I don't think that's what the guy is getting at, really.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 08:37 PM
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3. Reminiscent of the "If you wear your X, I'll wear mine"
In reference to Malcom X and the Confederate flag.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 08:37 PM
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4. decisions, decisions, which wonderful one to pick.
Good choices
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 08:37 PM
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5. He's suffering from PTSD caused by the last alien anal probe he survived. n/t
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 08:39 PM
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6. It means he's a racist piece of shit.
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ProgrezivIndie Donating Member (165 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 08:56 PM
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7. ...that about sums it up!
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 09:06 PM
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8. It means if black people can have MLK day, the rebels can have their flag.
Edited on Fri Mar-13-09 09:06 PM by MrSlayer
Quite simple really.
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Glorfindel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-13-09 09:36 PM
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9. Nothing stupider than a good ol' boy redneck...I've seen plenty
and believe me, it's not a pretty sight. The fools actually believe someone, somewhere, cares enough to try to deprive them of their "confedrut" flags. They're about as relevant as spitoons and much less useful.
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