{"id":1283,"date":"2015-07-14T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/07\/14\/this-flag-offends-me\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:40","slug":"this-flag-offends-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"This Flag Offends Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10391,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/hawaiiflag.facts.co\\\/hawaiistateflagof\\\/HawaiiFlagPicture4.png&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150315215615\\\/http:\\\/\\\/hawaiiflag.facts.co\\\/hawaiistateflagof\\\/HawaiiFlagPicture4.png&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 21:17:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 21:17:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10392,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Flag_of_Hawaii&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nI look at this flag and see within it the flag of a nation that oppressed my mother&#8217;s people from the Middle Ages until the first part of the 20th Century. A nation that forbid primogeniture to my mother&#8217;s people which, when combined with their callousness, led to over a million dead men, women, and children from starvation. This, while my ancestors&#8217; homeland was a net exporter of grain and other foodstuffs. While that nation didn&#8217;t consider it a genocide, many of my mother&#8217;s people most certainly did.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the flag of the nation that my father&#8217;s people fought to gain their freedom. Their independence, if you will.<\/p>\n<p>My mother&#8217;s people came from County Cavan, Ireland while parts of my father&#8217;s people were in America before the Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>That nation that oppressed my mother&#8217;s people and with which my father&#8217;s people fought in a revolution is of course Great Britain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiflag.facts.co\/hawaiistateflagof\/HawaiiFlagPicture4.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaiiflag.facts.co\/hawaiistateflagof\/HawaiiFlagPicture4.png\" height=\"320\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The flag to which I refer is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_of_Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state flag of Hawaii<\/a> which celebrates its friendship with the British with the Union Jack in its upper left corner.<\/p>\n<p>If the social justice warriors are really serious about getting rid of any symbol that smacks of oppression, I demand then that they get rid of the flag of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the flag of the state where the President was (probably, possibly, potentially) born. Given his goal to out-Nixon, Nixon, I see it doubly as a symbol of oppression.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t go so far as to demand that the graves of famous Hawaiians be dug up but that flag has to go.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look at this flag and see within it the flag of a nation that oppressed my mother&#8217;s people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2210,377],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sarcasm","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10389,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/10389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}