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So uhh... I got the flag of the Zionist Entity as a Christmas gift (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Erika3sis@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Apparently it had been bought for my world flag collection before the al-Aqsa flood, and ever since then it's just been kinda sitting there all folded up at the back of the gifts-to-give shelf for over a year, because giving the Zionist flag to me on any occasion would be incredibly tone-deaf, and has only continued to become progressively more tone-deaf as... *gestures broadly at everything*

So finally it was decided to just give the flag to me today because "that's where the Christmas story happened" — and I said to this justification, "Bethlehem is in the West Bank, you have to go through like eight checkpoints to get there from Nazareth nowadays."

...But in any case the deed is done: I am now in possession of the flag of a settler-colonial vassal of empire currently committing an active, brutal genocide, to realize its expansionist ambitions under its racist ideology of ethnic supremacy. In other words, I have basically been given the equivalent of the Hakenkreuzflagge for Christmas of 1944.

After reviewing my options for things I can do with this gift, I have decided that I want to try redyeing the flag into either the Palestinian flag or the flag of the PFLP. I haven't dyed any fabric in nearly a decade so it'll be a good opportunity to practice that sort of crafts skill, I think.

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[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say it has anything to do with Americans being self-absorbed, just the assumption that most people live in their country of birth, or the habit of referring to people primarily as their current place of residence.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The use of American for a country rather than the entire continent from Canada to chile is what I was referring to

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

All English alternatives are subpar at best. I use Yank to be pejorative to them but otherwise they're Americans to me.

Edit: Also what's more useful, to have a term for a group of people as disparate as Canadians, Mexicans, Surinamese, and Brazilians, or to have a term for people from the US?

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

People from the Caribbean and any country south of the US: Latin Americans.

People from a country north of the US: KKKlanadians.

People from the US: Uᛋᛋian.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

And that works for you!