July 27, 2005

Didn't Know It Was Deja Vu

This post has been up for awhile, but it only recently came to my attention via the Big Brass Blog. Given the amount of time I spend on the road in the southeast, for some time I've been seeing these. Not all the time, not ubiquitous, but several. Usually the thought that comes to my mind is "asshole" and then I drive on. Orcinus shows us a much more disturbing interpretation. Posted by binky at July 27, 2005 10:21 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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i haven't seen this before. and frankly, i think to the extent these are not uncommon, it illustrates the quality and nature of invective on each side of the fence: i can think of no pervasive and analogous bumper sticker suggesting, cheekily or otherwise, that we kill people who don't share our beliefs. i'm sorry, but it's just not funny. and the left tends to go for more civilized, if equally fatuous, jokes like the omnipresent "jesusland" graphic. it's the difference between sunday comics and lynching parties; neiwert's (apt) analogy makes the whole thing sort of chilling.

Posted by: joshua at July 27, 2005 02:37 PM | PERMALINK

i like the worldwide versions even better.

Posted by: joshua at July 27, 2005 02:38 PM | PERMALINK

Right. And like most people, I kind of shrugged, and though, wow that's in poor taste though constitutionally protected. I never stopped to think - until visiting Orcinus - about the connection to actions of the past and similar placards of the past. And before someone gets his knickers in a twist asking if I plan to ban them, that's not what I'm saying. I find it troubling, however, to find myself in a cultural climate that shares common traits with a time in history where we rounded up and interned U.S. citizens, a time about which many have said "never again."

Posted by: binky at July 27, 2005 03:20 PM | PERMALINK
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