Cultural appropriation!
Er, no, wait–Good artists copy, great artists steal!
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I was definitely getting a Russian or Eastern Orthodox vibe from the Jesus and Mary figures.
Or am I overthinking it, and it’s just Catholic iconography?
The crown on Mary seems very Roman Catholic. What pushes me toward the former are the black cloaks; but then again, that’s probably just laziness on the part of the bigot artist.
In either case, as a Catholic/Orthodox, he’s going to have a somewhat difficult time trying to convince good ole Protestant bigots to let him into the “non-racist” club.
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Quick-- cross-post this chart to infowars.com where it can be read by someone in the West Wing.
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why the hell are you seeing ads? Don’t you know you can block those? It’s not cheating the site. You’re just choosing what to accept from them.
A computer is like a car, or a horse. You can deny it from others for similar reasons. Like you don’t want anyone touching it.
That Jesus looks like someone gave Alan moore a makeover.
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Someone really needs to try sodomy.
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Do you think this person is aware that stricter definitions of sodomy include oral sex?
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I’m doing sodomy right now! Or, well, I’m thinking about sodomy anyway.
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Or maybe he just got that nice, helpful lady in Italy to do a retouch job on it…
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In Catholicism, that’s the same thing.
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Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli wanted to make oral sex a felony if he were elected. He lost, but only narrowly.
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There is also the issue of time passed since the conflict. Over time, emotions about any conflict change. It might have been that the use of the confederate flag would have experienced a resurgence even without the civil rights movement as a backdrop. It was also the centenary of the war.
Last year? Good grief!
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I’m fairly certain it was deployed specifically to protest Brown V. Board. Because people said that. At the time. They said things like “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” They shut down ENTIRE school systems and opened up prviate segregation academies for their children (Betsy DeVos would have approved). They reformed the KKK and killed people for transgressing racial boundaries. They created more “respectable” white citizens councils to fight legal rulings aimed at creating equal citizenship for African Americans. And they most certainly hoisted the rebel flag as a way of refusing to treat African Americans like human beings. None of this is controversial or muddled history. It’s well-established facts of the matter. Don’t believe me, go read the very deep historical literature on the classical civil rights movement and the movement to stop civil rights. It’s there, in black and white. You can even easily find the primary source documents, including talking to the very people who lived through it.
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If only it were… if only it were.
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I absolutely agree that all of those things happened, and for those reasons. My point was apart from that. it is not unusual for symbology from past conflicts to see a resurgence of use when the personal horror of the conflict fades into nostalgia. Often 100 years is such a time period. I was only asserting that a use of the flag might have resurfaced at that time anyway, or that the centenary could have influenced that symbol being used, instead of something else. It is not something knowable or provable.
Then it just would have popped up in historical displays in museums or on civil war battle fields instead of over state houses and buildings. Nor would it have come out to counter civil rights marches and demonstrations.
We can certainly commemorate the past, but to say that racism was only a tangent is frankly disingenuous. That was not the primary reason why states adopted it on their state flags even if they used the centenary as the excuse to do so.
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I may not be able to “prove” that someone proudly flying the Nazi flag is an anti-Semitic asshole but it’s usually a pretty safe assumption.
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And in this case, it is PROVABLE, by their own words. They said why they were putting that particular flag over southern state houses and it was to resist integration.
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