I don't have too much of a horse in this race, given that I'm not American, but I do find it weird that we've gone from even hippies liking Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers band, and the Dukes of Hazzard being culturally ubiquitous, to, in less than two decades (since the Hazzard remake) that flag being so supposedly "racist" that it is pretty much a "cultural no-no" almost everywhere, not just in polite society, and even Mississippi had to tear down their state flag...
Not to mention the whole tearing down statues shit that only really made its way into the West (and has now even reached my home city, depressingly) after Trump won, and the left declared open war on society as it stood...
At the same time, I would argue that "racial harmony" has gone completely backwards, people hate each other more than ever, and "violence" only seems to be increasing, along with the obvious political polarization...
Same thing happened in England with the British and English flags. Same in Australia (since 2005 in particular) with the Australian flag and the Eureka cross/flag. And arguably same in NZ with their flag... And the statues shit has carried through to all these places, plus Canada, plus even Central Europe of all places...
I don't have too much of a horse in this race, given that I'm not American, but I do find it weird that we've gone from even hippies liking Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers band, and the Dukes of Hazzard being culturally ubiquitous, to, in less than two decades (since the Hazzard remake) that flag being so supposedly "racist" that it is pretty much a "cultural no-no" almost everywhere, not just in polite society, and even Mississippi had to tear down their state flag...
Not to mention the whole tearing down statues shit that only really made its way into the West (and has now even reached my home city, depressingly) after Trump won, and the left declared open war on society as it stood...
At the same time, I would argue that "racial harmony" has gone completely backwards, people hate each other more than ever, and "violence" only seems to be increasing, along with the obvious political polarization...
Same thing happened in England with the British and English flags. Same in Australia (since 2005 in particular) with the Australian flag and the Eureka cross/flag. And arguably same in NZ with their flag... And the statues shit has carried through to all these places, plus Canada, plus even Central Europe of all places...
Really makes you wonder...