Comments on: migraphobia http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2006/04/11/migraphobia/ politics, media, culture and life from a queer boricua in brooklyn Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:26:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jack http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2006/04/11/migraphobia/#comment-4317 Jack Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:25:46 +0000 http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2006/04/11/51#comment-4317 Yeah, I don't really blame people for claiming the flag, but I still don't personally understand it. I suppose that, oddly enough, that's a privilege of having my own nation be colonized by the US - my family never had to struggle for rights as US citizens (instead, of course, my people get to struggle against the US imperialism that makes us US citizens). Yeah, I don’t really blame people for claiming the flag, but I still don’t personally understand it. I suppose that, oddly enough, that’s a privilege of having my own nation be colonized by the US - my family never had to struggle for rights as US citizens (instead, of course, my people get to struggle against the US imperialism that makes us US citizens).

]]> By: belledame222 http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2006/04/11/migraphobia/#comment-4271 belledame222 Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:46:35 +0000 http://www.angrybrownbutch.com/2006/04/11/51#comment-4271 And yet I can't blame people for wanting to claim the flag. Symbols matter, after all; and while what the flag is *supposed* to stand for (in its best incarnation) and what it actually does are often very far apart indeed, I think...yeah, wave the fucker if you want to wave the fucker. Reappropriation works a lot of different ways. more later, but yeah, I've been following this. wasn't able to go to the protest, but am glad to hear it went well. And yet I can’t blame people for wanting to claim the flag. Symbols matter, after all; and while what the flag is *supposed* to stand for (in its best incarnation) and what it actually does are often very far apart indeed, I think…yeah, wave the fucker if you want to wave the fucker. Reappropriation works a lot of different ways.

more later, but yeah, I’ve been following this. wasn’t able to go to the protest, but am glad to hear it went well.

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