{"id":51609,"date":"2015-06-24T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/is-the-american-flag-next.html"},"modified":"2015-06-24T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:04:18","slug":"is-the-american-flag-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/is-the-american-flag-next.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Is the American flag next?&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Um &#8230; no. That seems unlikely. Unlike the Confederate battle flag, the American flag is, actually, our national flag.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, Americans have a fetish about the stars and stripes that could probably bear with some moderation. But there&#39;s a significant difference between the social ostracizing of the battle flag of a defeated set of racist rebels, resurrected 80-100 years later as a big middle finger to the rest of the country, and how we look upon the flag of our nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2015\/06\/23\/is-the-american-flag-next-conservative-media-fr\/204113'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/sxqGPM4MOxTMNNpQN_HZQBtTQQ66r0hZaf_vhKvAGfiJzyHp_yPmHFBBiCZVQpnZ8MTrpBm-4X8lK7KPJpsTuYNHWeDSnFmwymziJYdagmdmz91pMPIo95R0vsV2cchUo3LWderfZGROfSBk1Q38A96EHZxYT3KFLmW_qI9hxzxBytDUGc8AeE6rn8F4p-DkTSpO5RzB5RWn=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2015\/06\/23\/is-the-american-flag-next-conservative-media-fr\/204113'>&#8220;Is The American Flag Next?&#8221;: Conservative Media Freak Out Over Confederate Flag Removal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/bsjrkA5hMLa'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um &#8230; no. That seems unlikely. Unlike the Confederate battle flag, the American flag is, actually, our national flag. Mind you, Americans have a fetish about the stars and stripes that could probably bear with some moderation. But there&#39;s a significant difference between the social ostracizing of the battle flag of a defeated set of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/is-the-american-flag-next.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Is the American flag next?&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130888,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/baptists-call-for-an-end-to-displaying-the-confederate-flag.html","url_meta":{"origin":51609,"position":0},"title":"Baptists call for an end to displaying the Confederate flag","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Jun-16 10:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Southern Baptist Convention has passed the following resolution:'We call our brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole Body of Christ, including our African-American brothers and sisters.'I applaud their action.(The full resolution is here: http:\/\/erlc.com\/resource-library\/articles\/resolution-7-on-sensitivity-and-unity-regarding-the-confederate-battle-flag)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51524,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/lindsey-graham-thinks-the-confederate-battle-flag-works-for-south-carolina.html","url_meta":{"origin":51609,"position":1},"title":"Lindsey Graham thinks the Confederate battle flag &quot;works&quot; for South Carolina","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Jun-15 4:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The flag represents to some people a civil war and that was the symbol of one side. To others, it's a racist symbol, and it has been used in a racist way.\"And ... neither of those fazes you, Sen. Graham? That the side that lost the civil war against the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/a-confederate-flag-ban-too-far-i-think.html","url_meta":{"origin":51609,"position":2},"title":"A Confederate flag ban too far, I think","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Jul-15 5:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm hardly a fan of the Confederate battle flag, the country it represented, or the cause of slavery behind it. But if fallen CSA soldiers are interred in federal war cemeteries, then a once-a-year, family-driven, one-day display of the Confederate battle flag on their graves seems historically appropriate to me.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135851,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/14\/confederate-flag-compromise-isnt.html","url_meta":{"origin":51609,"position":3},"title":"A confederate flag compromise that isn&#8217;t","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 14-Jan-18 9:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd love to know whether GOP state rep Greg Snowden is being naive or nefarious in proposing a solution to the debate in Mississippi over continued use of the Confederate battle ensign in its state flag that will likely only satisfy the folk who want to keep that tribute to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/unnamed-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1196,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/01\/is_this_an_oppo.html","url_meta":{"origin":51609,"position":4},"title":"Is this an opportunist I see before me?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Oct-01 6:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ordinarily during Farscape we get treated to commercials for \"commemorative mint edition\" coins of various sorts. Cheap, cheesy, and, frankly, ugly. This evening -- Now you, too, can order this...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media &amp; Culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media &amp; Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51686,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/07\/and-now-for-a-different-flag-furor.html","url_meta":{"origin":51609,"position":5},"title":"And, now, for a different flag furor","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Jul-15 8:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll be honest in saying that I had no idea that there was a quasi-official \"Christian flag\" (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_Flag). While familiar with some denominational flags (e.g. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_Flag#\/media\/File:Flag_of_the_US_Episcopal_Church.svg), I didn't know that there was a long-time movement for common flag for Christianity. 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