{"id":9427,"date":"2015-07-07T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=9427"},"modified":"2015-07-07T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T19:40:11","slug":"is-there-anything-more-racist-than-a-progressive-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/07\/07\/is-there-anything-more-racist-than-a-progressive-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There Anything More Racist Than A Progressive Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sweden is held up as a paragon of Progressive spiffiness.\u00a0 Yet the Swedish flag, a symbol of that Progressive ideal, is now considered a paragon of&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/speisa.com\/modules\/articles\/index.php\/item.574\/swedish-school-bans-the-swedish-flag.html\" target=\"_blank\">racist hate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Swedish flag has now been banned at a primary school in Sweden. The reason is that the flag may be offensive to certain groups and breaking the law &#8216;offensive against ethnic groups.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9428\" title=\"Muslim burning Swedish flag\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Muslim_burning_Swedish_flag.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The flag of the country most willing to take in people who hate it and even <a title=\"The Failure of Multiculturalism\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/06\/06\/the-failure-of-multiculturalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">bend over backwards<\/a> to shield those people form the effects of assimilation is somehow offensive to those people?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And apparently Sweden&#8217;s own flag is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amren.com\/news\/2014\/12\/swedish-school-bans-the-swedish-flag\/\" target=\"_blank\">illegal<\/a>&#8230; in Sweden.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Akerlund also believes that by using the Swedish flag one may be guilty of violating the racism law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When a country declares itself to be evil, the only &#8220;socially just&#8221; course of action is <a title=\"Sweden\u2019s Cultural Genocide\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/05\/30\/swedens-cultural-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\">suicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And <a title=\"Sweden Won\u2019t Let Democracy Get In The Way of Its Suicide\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/01\/09\/sweden-wont-let-democracy-get-in-the-way-of-its-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">suicide<\/a> is exactly what Sweden is committing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Is there any doubt that this will start happening with increasing frequency in the United States?\u00a0 Already the courts allow schools to ban the American flag, though due to the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Amendment they had to use the excuse that a &#8220;climate of racial tension&#8221; allowed the school to ban the image of the flag.\u00a0 But then, in this era of &#8220;racial healing&#8221; the excuse could be extended more generally.\u00a0 Of course, this would never happen to the Gay Pride flag or the Pan-African flag because instead of banning them due to a &#8220;climate&#8221; of &#8220;tension&#8221;, the Left would insist on going after those who might be violent (proactively, of course).<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Is There Anything More Racist Than A Progressive Country?\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sweden is held up as a paragon of Progressive spiffiness.  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