A fool and his mind are soon parted.
Still it did strike me as noteworthy that your basic tea party crowd isn’t the sort of crowd in which a Confederate flag is unwelcome. I feel like if you’d tried to bring this to a health care rally, folks would have gotten upset. But the tea parties, like a lot of big time conservative events, are a very racism friendly environment. This guy, for example, clearly isn’t so much the type to march with a racist shirt on as he is the kind of guy who’d march with a shirt ridiculing the idea of anti-racism:
Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias saw this picture at the 9/12 rally. The above quote was his caption for this photo.
I’m sure all you who own this shirt knew you were anti-anti-racists when you bought it and didn’t need Mr. Yglesias to point it out to you. But I’m also sure he’s glad to have done the pointing.
We’ve already been through this a few years ago.
They can’t even be original, can they?