Of all the buzzwords that have been embraced by the Liberal ThoughtCrime Police, “Hate” has to be my least favorite. Anybody that has an opposing opinion is now guilty of spreading Hate.
Remember this guy?
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He really thought that the country would get behind his berating (and then, awkward flirtation) of a teenaged girl for her willing Hate spreading. Turns out that his employer didn’t much care for his video—they fired him. But that was three years ago, and much has happened in those three years. Would they have fired him today? Or would he have been a hero?
Just for the record, I’m not anti-gay marriage. If Hillary and Obama can “evolve” on gay marriage, then I guess I can, too. But I didn’t switch my Facebook profile picture to the rainbow of fruit flavors—partially because I didn’t feel like being part of the latest Zuckerberg social experiment, but also because I didn’t agree with the Supreme Court decision. It’s possible to be both pro-gay marriage and anti-SCOTUS, and that’s kind of where I find myself.
However, rightwingnews.com decided to give people the option to display a different flag on their profile picture as a form of protest. You can pick between the Stars and Stripes, the original 13 Colonies flag, a Gadsen flag, or a cross. Personally, I wouldn’t mind changing my picture to the American flag to celebrate Independence Day (which, by the way, is the correct name for this holiday, not the Fourth of July), but in this climate, I have a slight fear that I’d be labeled as a homophobe for doing so—you know, a purveyor of “hate.”
It seems crazy to think that displaying the American flag, the flag of the greatest and freest country in the world, could potentially be controversial. But that’s where we’re heading. All it took for the Confederate Battle Flag to become a universal symbol of Hate was one evil man who had a Confederate flag on his license plate. Within days, supporting the display of the flag of Robert E. Lee became an untenable position. Even the Duke boys had to be taken off of late night reruns, despite the fact that nobody was actually offended by the General Lee—somebody might have been, and in this day and age, that’s enough reason to take action.
Of course, nobody takes Louis Farrakhan seriously… but will they soon enough? If Southerners, who are a much brighter and more educated bunch than the Yankees like to make us out to be, can’t wrap themselves in the CSA flag anymore, how long with it be until they switch to the Stars and Stripes Forever? How long until a charismatic speaker convinces us all that the American flag flew over a country with Jim Crow laws, a country where Trayon Martin and Michael Brown and Eric Garner were killed, and that it’s a symbol of Hate?
Sadly, it’s no longer unimaginable. We’ve become so overwrought with White Guilt that it seems like we can no longer be proud of Washington and Jefferson and Adams. We’ve done a historical doxxing of all of the Founding Fathers. We’ve convinced ourselves that America, and all it stands for, is a nation of Hate. We stomp on flags in classrooms. We’ve convinced ourselves that solving a social issue or two, mostly by simply being the guy who was in the Oval Office when the SCOTUS ruled on the issues, Obama has become as historically significant as Reagan or Roosevelt.
Hate can only go one way—oppressor to the oppressed. And in the case of the American flag, from those who love America to those who are ashamed of it.
Mark my words. The American flag will become a symbol of Hate, and it won’t take long, either. So enjoy waving your flags this holiday. This time next year, you might just be spreading Hate by doing it.