Right Advice

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 15 11:43:24 PDT 2001


Chuck0 wrote:


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

Fucking hell, Chuck. I can see not wanting to wave a flag - I couldn't do it myself. But burning it? What does that accomplish except to marginalize yourself? You're not going to win any friends that way. And you'd alienate people like me, who aren't terribly sympathetic to the "reclaim the flag" argument, but still see no point in such acting out. What's your idea of a political base if you can tolerate alienating about 99.8% of your onlookers?

Doug



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