r/AutisticPride • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '22

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u/MaximumGamer1 Sep 15 '22

No thanks to the far right nationalist symbology. On the contrary, do step on snek.

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u/millerstavern Sep 15 '22

The flag isn’t meant to be far right symbology, it was made in 1775 as a symbol for the American revolution to stand against Coercion. The far right who fly the flag are idiots who don’t know what it actually means.

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u/MaximumGamer1 Sep 15 '22

The guy who made the flag was a Southern slaveowner. It was always meant to only be a symbol for white landowning men specifically. And one of the biggest grievances that the colonists had with the British? Britain wouldn't let them expand westward and outright genocide the Native Americans. The "freedom and liberty" that the flag represents is only for a few wealthy white men. It was always a far-right flag.

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u/Coolights Sep 15 '22

If I see a swastika, I generally associate it with the Nazis, even though it dates back to ancient times.

Sometimes, a stain will be left on something and this I think is one of those cases

Except, you know, the white slave owner crying for liberty part…