Mississippi Sen. Kathy Chism, R-New Albany, said the Legislature should not have retired the Confederate-themed state flag.

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    1 year ago

    Is this a common white nationalist conspiracy theory, that a black man designed the flag? First I ever heard of it, and I’ll feel very differently about her if this was simple bullshit or if it’s her buying into some kind of Nazi propaganda. I have different contempt organs for liars and cultists.

    It’s… hard to really interpret what the intent is of it. Are they trying to “trick” progressives into thinking the flag isn’t a celebration of a bygone rebellion-with-intent-to-keep-black-people-as-property? Even if a black person had made it, it would not change the need to abolish it and cast out all who love it from civil society It has deep, unquestionable symbolic meaning as an celebration of unjust rebellion and racism.

    And ALSO, she’s wiping out a piece of “white history” in the process. Very weird thing for a white supremacist to be doing.

    I have to just assume that Kathy Chism’s really, really gullible and parrots random factoids she hears credulously and without critical thinking. Which is definitely closest to the truth, but man. It’s just so much dumber than I expect even from a Nazi.

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      It’s… hard to really interpret what the intent is of it.

      It’s “I can’t be racist, I have a black friend” (you haven’t met her, she goes to a different school… in Canada).