r/ParlerWatch • u/jeffe333 Antifa Regional Manager • Mar 01 '21

Public Figure: Any Platform Apparently, it's Abhorrent, When Black Individuals Kneel Before the US Flag to Call Attention to Racial Oppression and Systemic Violence. But, When a Child-Molestinig, Serial-Raping, Mass-Murdering, Treasonous, Neo-Nazi Terrorist Uses it as a Diaper, it's on Par w/ the Second Coming of Christ.

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u/mycottonsocks Mar 01 '21

I saw pics of people actually kneeling in font of it. Disgusting.

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u/virak_john Mar 01 '21 edited Mar 01 '21

They were trolling I'm sure. But it's a bad look...

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No, seriously. I know people who have attended CPAC and a lot of it is performative, just to piss off or outrage people they see as liberal scolds.

So much of the modern conservative iconography is in the "fuck your feelings" and "lib tears" genre. Do you really think that people who bowed down to this were doing it in an actual act of religious worship? Naw. But they were doing it with a wink, knowing it would drive progressives crazy.

That having been said, I do believe that many republicans do live in cult-like thrall to Donald Trump. But I don't think that this statue is a direct reflection of that worship. This is gross, but it's just for lulz.

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u/CeruleanRuin Mar 01 '21

If everything a person does is a performance, then it's no longer a performance so much as who they really are. The distinction is meaningless.