tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post2710675813470139621..comments2024-03-28T00:01:43.037-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Assimilation and free speechGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-20579837218334144272015-01-17T15:53:35.739-05:002015-01-17T15:53:35.739-05:00I think there's some jealously here for the Eu...I think there's some jealously here for the European way. <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/11/17/americas_angriest_white_men_up_close_with_racism_rage_and_southern_supremacy/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow" rel="nofollow">Michael Kimmel in <i>Salon</i> magazine writes</a>: "And that doesn’t even touch the former states of the Confederacy, where flying the Confederate flag is a culturally approved symbol of “southern pride”—in the same way that wearing a swastika would be a symbol of German “heritage” (except it’s illegal in Germany to wear a swastika)."<br /><br />I don't get the sense that he thinks Germany is the government in the wrong.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com