The Off Topic Topic

[Razgovory]

Yeah. I get the statement alone but why the flag with it? Theres a non obvious hidden message

The second statement does not make much sense.  The NAACP does not have racial requirements for it's membership.  In fact, Republican presidential  candidate Barry Goldwater was a member of the Arizona chapter. As for governmental offices I can think of only a few offices that require you to be an ethnic group to hold office.  Those are Tribal governments of Indian nations.  The rules on who can hold offices and who can be members of the tribe are left up to the tribes themselves.  I imagine they differ quite a bit from tribe to tribe.  The status and functions of these governments has always been an area I've had little understand of though.

[Valmy]

I'm guessing it's more about the flag purge in general, including the silly excesses like the Apple Store game ban, revoking the license to manufacture the General Lee toy car, and vandalizing private property where the flag is flown.

Huh. Well those are decisions by individuals and individual companies. They are talking like we as a country are collectively doing that.

[Eddie Teach]

Bah, you and Syt need to figure out different names.

Perhaps Josquius and Sytass.   

[Ideologue]

Bah, you and Syt need to figure out different names.

Perhaps Josquius and Sytass.   

Eddie Teach is correct.

[derspiess]

Huh. Well those are decisions by individuals and individual companies.

Yep.

They are talking like we as a country are collectively doing that.

With the rapidity and seeming uniformity with the way it's taking place, it sort of feels like it. 

I never liked that flag, but the frenzy and excess of this purge is unsettling to me. 

[derspiess]

The second statement does not make much sense.  The NAACP does not have racial requirements for it's membership.  In fact, Republican presidential  candidate Barry Goldwater was a member of the Arizona chapter.

You're correct in a technical sense, but I think it's pretty much a de facto rule (with a small number of exceptions) that you need to be black to head an NAACP chapter.  I doubt Ms. Dolezal would have become chapter president without her blackface ruse, for example.

[Valmy]

With the rapidity and seeming uniformity with the way it's taking place, it sort of feels like it. 

I never liked that flag, but the frenzy and excess of this purge is unsettling to me. 

It should be. It is symptomatic of the reactionary outrage business we do all the time. Unfortunately the most you can do is just wait until it blows over or risk being cyber-shamed to oblivion.

[crazy canuck]

Bah, you and Syt need to figure out different names.

Perhaps Josquius and Sytass.   

Yes, someone ought to force them back to their original names.

[Razgovory]

Huh. Well those are decisions by individuals and individual companies.

Yep.

They are talking like we as a country are collectively doing that.

With the rapidity and seeming uniformity with the way it's taking place, it sort of feels like it. 

I never liked that flag, but the frenzy and excess of this purge is unsettling to me.

I see it as similar to the purging of Communist symbols in former Eastern Bloc countries.

[Razgovory]

The second statement does not make much sense.  The NAACP does not have racial requirements for it's membership.  In fact, Republican presidential  candidate Barry Goldwater was a member of the Arizona chapter.

You're correct in a technical sense, but I think it's pretty much a de facto rule (with a small number of exceptions) that you need to be black to head an NAACP chapter.  I doubt Ms. Dolezal would have become chapter president without her blackface ruse, for example.

I have no idea, as I'm not a member.  I imagine that the people who care most about the NAACP are black.

[Josquius]

Yeah. I get the statement alone but why the flag with it? Theres a non obvious hidden message

The second statement does not make much sense.  The NAACP does not have racial requirements for it's membership.  In fact, Republican presidential  candidate Barry Goldwater was a member of the Arizona chapter. As for governmental offices I can think of only a few offices that require you to be an ethnic group to hold office.  Those are Tribal governments of Indian nations.  The rules on who can hold offices and who can be members of the tribe are left up to the tribes themselves.  I imagine they differ quite a bit from tribe to tribe.  The status and functions of these governments has always been an area I've had little understand of though.

That's more factually wrong than not making sense.

[Admiral Yi]

There was a white head of the NAACP.

[derspiess]

When?

[Razgovory]

With the rapidity and seeming uniformity with the way it's taking place, it sort of feels like it. 

I never liked that flag, but the frenzy and excess of this purge is unsettling to me. 

It should be. It is symptomatic of the reactionary outrage business we do all the time. Unfortunately the most you can do is just wait until it blows over or risk being cyber-shamed to oblivion.

The outrage is a bit of a perfect storm of political sentiment.  Leftists despise the flag for what it represents, and I don't think Republicans have every been comfortable with a symbol violent resistance to the election of Republicans.  It was also a cunning move on the part of Republican elite.  I have noticed that since the Trayvon Martin shooting there was a great deal of resentment amongst white conservatives. Scare stories about Black on White crime were fairly common on websites like FreeRepublic and Breitbart.  I noticed that on the day of the shooting Breitbart had "Blacks victimizing Whites" story on their front page, that was quickly taken down.  I don't think they wanted people to look to closely at the web sights that inspired Mr. Roof.  Better to make the debate about the flag then take a hard look Conservative Citizen Council, which could prove embarrassing.

[Razgovory]

Yeah. I get the statement alone but why the flag with it? Theres a non obvious hidden message

The second statement does not make much sense.  The NAACP does not have racial requirements for it's membership.  In fact, Republican presidential  candidate Barry Goldwater was a member of the Arizona chapter. As for governmental offices I can think of only a few offices that require you to be an ethnic group to hold office.  Those are Tribal governments of Indian nations.  The rules on who can hold offices and who can be members of the tribe are left up to the tribes themselves.  I imagine they differ quite a bit from tribe to tribe.  The status and functions of these governments has always been an area I've had little understand of though.

That's more factually wrong than not making sense.

That is my best guess what it meant, but it worded confusingly.