Monday, September 27, 2010

I Want You...

Uncle Sam has a message for a good segment of the U.S. population (thx for the tip BH)...

From Salon...
This message gets to the heart of something very important. The conservative right likes to wrap itself in the flag and paint opposition to its values as un-patriotic and un-American. But tolerance is also an American value. And what is more craven than the fear that the American way of life will be undermined by the exercise of such a value -- by our welcoming of difference, our openness to that which threatens us?

The forces of conservative reaction are afraid of gays in the military, of Muslims in downtown Manhattan, of presidents with funny names, of other languages, other cultural practices -- heck, they're even afraid of Halloween. That's a puny, red, white and yellow understanding of what it means to be American. It's embarrassing.

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