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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
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.
So, where do you all think this cousin is coming from?
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I'm not sure where your father is coming from. Why does he find the American flag offensive? Is part of the lefty-east faction Canadian, and therefore feel offended and left out?
I hate to admit that this story makes your father comes off as one of those east-coast lefty types who give other east-coast lefties a bad name by insisting that even the mildest and most neutral forms of patriotism or vague pride in America or American "values" (however defined) are really just mindless advocacy of evil capitalist global geopolitical hegomony. I am sort of surprised, I didn't really think those people existed outside of Bill O'Reilly's rants. I might have been wrong.
If your da insists that the flag must have specific political content beyond "gee, we think America is pretty nifty and sure are glad to be here", he might do better to take the flag as a sign that the Red-faction cousin has come around to his way of thinking, and the flag is the cousin's way of advertising his belief in whatever great American values your father has been trying to get those barbarians to embrace all along, like freedom, tolerance, protection of the weak, equal justice under the law, progressive political discourse, etc. etc.
