This puts it in a different light. If all this means is that the State of New York has to remodel all of its museum gift shops to remove the Confederate paraphernalia aisles, I guess that's their business
I hate that I live in an age where I must explain that:
opposing US flag burning laws, anti-Confederate flag laws, and supporting Twitter's right to ban who they wish doesn't make me an anarcho-commie, neo-confederate, or bootlicking toady of Big Tech.
Our garbage zeitgeist is such that there seems to be an almost universal agreement that if someone expresses support for the 1st Amendment rights of icky people, they must therefore be one of the icky people
Because, as distasteful and hurtful as they may be, both the Nazi flag and Confederate flag are protected under the United States Constitution; which, as a veteran of the US armed forces, I believe you at one time swore an oath to defend.
"I need an extended thinkpiece to explain to me how rubbing one out on a work Zoom call could possibly lead to dismissal and ridicule" - the erudite sophisticates of the NY Times reader base
The Toobin rehabilitation & amnesia campaign proceeding just as I predicted
1 Electoral
2 Cardinals
3 Faber
4 Wossamotta U
5 Springfield A&M
6 Okoboji
7 Miskatonic
8 Starfleet Academy
9 Musical Knowledge
10 South Harmon Institute of Technology
Medfield College drops from rankings after suspension for performance-enhancing flubber scandal
Let's face it, after the Flubber scandals, recruiting ineligible Tarzan boys, and cheating with computer cyborgs at the Quiz Bowl, Medfield deserves an NCAA death penalty
Many critics cite Goldfinger as Colonel Sanders's greatest film appearance, but for me it will always be Herschel Gordon Lewis's immortal epic Blast Off Girls. Handin' out chicken at groovy 60s Chicago go-go hullaballoo like a boss
And let's not forget Hell's Bloody Devils, and the Colonel's showstopping line "Isn't that the most wonderful chicken you ever ate?"