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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
....and yes, there is an American flag displayed at my house so fuck all y'all.
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Speaking of which, a question for "y'all."
My family has its coastal lefty faction -- the effete intellectual snobs, if you will -- and its red-state, blue-collar faction -- the folks you might meet in a small town in the Mountain Time Zone. My father is in the former group. We usually avoid talking politics when we all get together, for obvious reasons, but sometimes it just slips out.
One of my cousins (in the other faction) has decided to work up a family website, which is cool. At the top of the home page, he's inserted a graphic of a flapping American flag.
My father is bent out of shape about this. He sees it as an attempt by my cousin to make a political point.
I'm not so sure. I'm not as sure as my dad that the cousin sees the flag in a divisive way, and thinks it's possible that he sees it as something we all share. Said cousin actually lives in a suburb of Seattle, so he should be more attuned to these things than someone who lives in, e.g., a rural area in the Mountain Time Zone uninhabited by liberals, but I just don't know. And I think raising this could be awkward.
So, where do you all think this cousin is coming from?
