All posts tagged "Americans Are Assholes"

[rebelmouse-image 24749421 original_size="325x466" expand=1]The war between Roger Ebert and teabagger racist twits has been another interesting lesson for the world, re: the fact that many, many people are "conservative" because they're assholes and the ideology is a perfect fit for them. But what's interesting to me is the event that touched it all off was another example of people being assholes just because they love being assholes---a bunch of kids got in trouble for wearing American flags on Cinco de Mayo, which was basically a fuck-you to Hispanic students on a day set aside, like St. Patrick's Day, to celebrate a group's unique cultural spot within a larger country that was built, remember, by immigrants.