{"id":13409,"date":"2019-06-14T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T22:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=13409"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:27:52","slug":"oh-crap-can-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/06\/14\/oh-crap-can-you-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh crap, can you see\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2256,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/kottke.org\\\/19\\\/06\\\/how-do-you-feel-about-the-american-flag&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260304061810\\\/https:\\\/\\\/kottke.org\\\/19\\\/06\\\/how-do-you-feel-about-the-american-flag&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 08:19:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:54:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 11:54:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/19\/06\/how-do-you-feel-about-the-american-flag\">Jason Kottke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  \u2026I\u2019ve developed a similar unsafe feeling about the flag. It\u2019s not a voluntary thing \u2014 it\u2019s something that has built up over two+ years of seeing American flags in photos of MAGA rallies &amp; white nationalist marches but not so much at Black Lives Matter marches or pro-choice rallies. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve also noticed the correlation between seeing an American flag emoji in someone\u2019s Twitter bio next to the MAGA hashtag and the tendency of that person to act like a misogynist asshole. While it\u2019s hardly a new thing, the aggressive, intolerant, nationalistic right has been particularly effective in visibly wrapping themselves in the flag lately. It\u2019s great branding for them, but it\u2019s not doing the flag any favors.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is something I&#8217;ve noticed and discussed with my wife over the past few years as well. We&#8217;re at a point where if someone&#8217;s displaying an American flag, we assume they&#8217;re probably not someone we want to associate with &#8212; that it&#8217;s a display of nationalism, not patriotism. The bigger and more ostentatious the display, the more averse we are to interacting with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re at a point where if someone&#8217;s displaying an American flag, we assume they&#8217;re probably not someone we want to associate with &#8212; that it&#8217;s a display of nationalism, not patriotism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-13409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}