When I wrote Rebel a few years ago, I used the confederate flag and a mashup of a Hezbollah symbol (fist holding an M4 here). It was designed this way to mock the 2-fold ignorance on the right. One is how they are willing to take any popular symbol/words and appropriate it for themselves [1]. This is a kind of we have hard power in society but none of the soft power thing, IMO. They don't have the moral high ground, so to gain that they have to steal from those who are actually oppressed.
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This means that on some subconscious level they know their movement has no real legitimacy other than "I want to complain and I want no consequences in life". Furthermore this kind of daylight robbery serves double duty by being a kind of mocking of those who are oppressed and come up with these symbols of what they have suffered. [2]
And the other side of this coin is that they truly are just ignorant (what I was trying to get at in Rebel) and wouldn't know what other people are using said symbols for (or truly understand their cause or the fact they themselves are in the reason for the oppression).
So that Qanon pretends to care about pedophilia while being steeped in it is no surprise. But that the raised fist has been used by the GOP and Qanon groups (sometimes using the same exact fist style as the Palestinians and others) shows that I didn't take this far enough. But also, like many things one predicts will happen and end up happening... it doesn't feel good man.
Your thoughts?
[1] The list is plenty long, from misusing MLK's "I have a dream" for conservative ends, to the more obvious "I can't breathe" that I've seen recently.
[2] Another side is that they see all oppressed people as illegitimate and that if they use it, then it's legit. Yeah, the right wing mind is something else entirely.
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