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Burn Baby Burn: The Shaming of the Confederate Bigot Flag<br />
By Alison Ross<br />
There are those insufferably PC individuals who want to poop on every sliver of progress<br />
in the guise of claiming, "It's not enough." Well DUH. Of course it's not enough. It never<br />
is. We should obliterate society and start all over again. But in the absence of razing<br />
ourselves in order to save ourselves, we should always applaud even the most seemingly<br />
"insignificant" bits of progress, because it means that enlightened conscience has<br />
managed to thrash through the toxic murk of benighted ignorance, if only briefly, and if<br />
only minimally. Besides, small humane actions accrue into larger gestures of humanity,<br />
which can transmute into legal justice.<br />
There are those "progressives" who couldn't grasp the outsized significance of the<br />
Confederate Battle Flag coming down at the Statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina, in<br />
the wake of the nine black people being shot down at an AME church by a Confederate<br />
sympathizer. They protested, "but it won't eradicate racism." Well double fucking DUH.<br />
Of course it won't eradicate racism. Naturally, in their smug sanctimoniousness, they<br />
allowed themselves to miss the very salient fact that it was SOUTHERN<br />
REPUBLICANS, vile souls that they are, leading the cause to get the flag taken down. So<br />
what if they did it out of political expediency, to save themselves and their state a PR<br />
nightmare? South Carolina has always been embroiled in some sort of PR nightmare<br />
scenario. Embedded in that political expediency, anyway, is a bit of consciousness that<br />
yes, symbols do hold sway after all. I feel certain that at least some of those Southern<br />
Republicans have indeed clung to the flag as a emblem of heritage - dimly dismissing, of<br />
course, the blinding fact that bigoted hatred has been an inextricable part of that heritage -<br />
and were finally shamed into acknowledging that some people do use such symbols for<br />
more sinister means.<br />
Now that the flag is down, eventually, over time, it will hold less sway because it's not<br />
being officially sanctioned, and while that will not evaporate bigotry and its manifold<br />
manifestations, it will help to push it further to the fringes. For when symbols such as the
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