#for suddenly adopting a strong stance in defense of universities flying the fucking american flag of all things.

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ugh i'm trying not to be a dick to my mom, who suffers enough. but i cannot believe she's decided to go in on "desecrating flags is a bad look for anyone" re: the student protests like a) that's obviously not the principle you're actually using to decide who and what to criticize here b) it's not desecrating a flag to take it down and replace it with another flag c) every time my parents say shit like this it makes me feel like maybe i alone retain memories of my family's beliefs and experiences during the bush administration, which is bad because i was like six at the time

#she said some other shit about it i don't want to air publicly but i am in fact mad at her #for suddenly adopting a strong stance in defense of universities flying the fucking american flag of all things. #come on. come the fuck on. if you just say the real thing you actually believe we will get in FEWER fights because i will expect less #return on challenging it. and it also actually bundles in *fewer* insane conservative beliefs if you just say out loud that #your family is israeli and you used to live in israel and you hate hamas and feel strongly that most or all broadly anti-state-of-israel #sentiment is also effectively antisemitic and/or that only jews can hate netanyahu's policies without also endorsing antisemitism #and that no one publicly cares about 10/7 enough and the students are being disrespectful of it. #i don't like agree with any of it. but it's openly about the specific thing and not endorsement of a random selection of reactionary shit #in order to make it sound more broadly principled. #euch.