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Pastimes : The Semi-Coherent Anti-American Babble Thread

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To: bela_ghoulashi who started this subject10/10/2001 2:52:13 AM
From: BDR  Read Replies (2) of 148
 
Barbara Kingsolver, author and Tucson, AZ resident, writes of her reaction when her child came home from school with a request to wear red, white and blue to school after the WTC atrocity.

Barbara Kingsolver on Patriotism
Published on Tuesday, September 25, 2001 in the San Francisco Chronicle
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She likes to bash Republicans and anybody on the right. She gets a little carried away and somehow gets around to:

"In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation,
censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, and shoving the
Constitution through a paper shredder? Who are we calling terrorists here?"
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