Right Advice

Dennis dperrin13 at mediaone.net
Mon Oct 15 11:44:23 PDT 2001


I wrote:


> > So those who protested Jim Crow segregation/apartheid and US violence in
> > Southeast Asia were jingoist fools for displaying the flag in demos and
> > marches? Does the flag only represent racist elements? Too bad you
weren't
> > there to advise Martin Luther King on his reactionary behavior.

To which Chuck0 replied:


> Ouch, not only a cheap shot, but a logical fallacy to boot.
>
> Leave it to the liberals to drag out MLK when they need to get back on
> their pedestal.
>
> That's pretty sick to say that I'm suggesting that the civil rights
> marchers were jingoists.

Hey bub, you raised the issue of flag-waving jingoism, and I asked if this included those who fought racism and war in the 60s. You can't answer save to call me a "liberal." Weak.


> I stand by my words about flag-waving. You bring an American flag to a
> demo these days, be prepared to see it burn.

Weaker.

DP



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