Both have severe branding problems. Right-wing authoritarians stole the Gadsen flag, and left-wing authoritarians started governments and called it communism.
It always irks me when someone flies it along with a thin blue line flag. The true history and meaning of Gadsden flag is amazing and if most people knew it they would appreciate the flag too and not just see it as a redneck flag.
People who fly that flag now don’t want the gub’mint interfering in their lives…unless that gub’mint hates the same people they do, then it’s “tread on me harder, daddy!”
I just took a cursory glance at this Gadsen flag’s history and meaning, and it’s indeed removed from the bunch of wackos wanting to throw slurs around that co-opted it.
left-wing authoritarians started governments and called it communism
Tell me about it… It’s infuriating to be automatically associated with regimes that were just repressive hegemonies with a red facade; meanwhile, anti-authoritarian communist figures like Rosa Luxemburg are simply ignored, or worse, put into the same dirty bag.
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Both have severe branding problems. Right-wing authoritarians stole the Gadsen flag, and left-wing authoritarians started governments and called it communism.
It always irks me when someone flies it along with a thin blue line flag. The true history and meaning of Gadsden flag is amazing and if most people knew it they would appreciate the flag too and not just see it as a redneck flag.
People who fly that flag now don’t want the gub’mint interfering in their lives…unless that gub’mint hates the same people they do, then it’s “tread on me harder, daddy!”
Everyone is fine with authoritarianism when it’s working in their favor or in line with their ideology.
Speak for yourself. Authoritarianism is diametrically opposed to my ideology.
As much as I try, I can’t unsee the redneck flag in the modern context.
I just took a cursory glance at this Gadsen flag’s history and meaning, and it’s indeed removed from the bunch of wackos wanting to throw slurs around that co-opted it.
Tell me about it… It’s infuriating to be automatically associated with regimes that were just repressive hegemonies with a red facade; meanwhile, anti-authoritarian communist figures like Rosa Luxemburg are simply ignored, or worse, put into the same dirty bag.
Clearly I have some homework tonight