PAUL/NUGENT 2016
DUMB AND DUMBER

The background could be a pickup truck up on cinder blocks.

–alopecia

Also another difference: The rainbow flag (or any pro-gay symbol or sentiment) was never used as a standard for a group of men who decided their right to hold an entire race of people as nothing more than beasts of burden was more important than the solidarity and progress of their so-called beloved nation.

These folks want to be proud of being on the rightfully losing side of probably the ugliest period of American history. Anything remotely admirable or positive about the South or Southern history has little to nothing to do with the Confederacy or that flag, but THAT is what they want to use to represent themselves.

Very true.

Back when that inane whinny Kenny Chesney/LL Cool J song was a thing someone commented “Well, what about a homosexual person wearing a pro-gay marriage t-shirt?” My reply was that the pro-gay marriage people understand and accept (and very frequently experience) people offering unsolicited negative opinions about the shirts, the person wearing it, and the issue as whole. The heart of what Chesney (and Paul and Nugent) was whining about wasn’t that he couldn’t wear confederate paraphernalia; it was that EVERYONE wasn’t giving him a standing ovation for doing so.

Totally the same logic (and largely the same people) who scream “Persecution!” if someone even suggests they be considerate of other religion’s other than the co-opted right wing version of rural evangelical Christianity ca. 1952.

These people are not only the heroes of their own private mythology, they demand to be recognized and acknowledged as heroes by the rest of us, and they deeply resent not being recognized and acknowledged as heroes.

Check out the comment thread on this page; look for a troll called “Anthony Mays.” I actually busted him twice. It’s quite remarkable.

Seriously, do we really need to go any further than that infamous CPAC seminar from this year, “Are You Sick of Being Called a Racist When You Know You’re Not One?”