Message To Fundies Decrying The Supreme Court Decision As An Infringement On Their Religious Freedom

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17. Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!!!!!

This stuff is just SUPERB for re-framing the issue. When it's clarified and easy to remember and easy to drop into a conversation when/if needed, so much the better. That's why sloganeering is so important. Stupid and manipulative and superficial. But still important, unfortunately. Catchy slogans and turns-of-phrase are easy to remember. If they're easy to remember, they're easy to repeat. Particularly if they're clever or funny. And the longer they stand, especially if you're using them now and then, the more you unconsciously internalize them and they become familiar and comfortable and preferred.

Having that hate-rag flying high, plastered across walls, emblazoned on everything from license plates to wearables of every kind does nothing but render it commonplace, familiar, no-big-deal, something you become accustomed to, part of the wallpaper of life that you just take for granted and don't give a second thought about. It becomes comfortable, therefore, by default, acceptable and accepted.

And I'm sorry, but NOBODY should be allowed to become comfortable with that damn flag.

It should become something that's as taboo as the utterance of the "n-word." And NOT something one flaunts in polite company.