State Flags are Going Woke. Is Virginia’s Next?
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20 responses to “State Flags are Going Woke. Is Virginia’s Next?”
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Funny how conservatives just love to give the woke left ideas on how to become more woke and then criticize them for being woke. It is as if they are building a woke agenda without even trying. Fear is a power motivator and appears to be all they got.
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Wake me when somebody actually tries to do this in Virginia. I have seen no such bill or resolution. There are enough real issues without having to invite new ones. Amazon maiden? Gee, how do we know that? If she were not a virgin would a different breast be exposed? Booth’s meaning was ambiguous? Uh, no, he really thought he was killing a tyrant that day. Who is this fool you just let on the site, Rayner?
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4Chan rejected the original write up.
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So I guess you agree with me?
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Exactly, somehow Booth as ambiguous had never occurred to me, that is a rather novel interpretation, and “The Virginia flag and seal were created in 1776 in the aftermath of the War for Independence.” Hardly, if I remember my history that would be in the premath of that war.
Should Virginia fear that our state flag will be banned from future events at the White House? Whoda guessed that Virginia’s state flag was woke before woke was uncool?
What, you didn’t know that a woman was virgin signaling by which breast she displayed?
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I thought it was flowers and ears. Or maybe I’m thinking of men and which ear has an earring?
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There tend to be other “signals” too, but it is probably best not to delve too deeply into them here. Wink wink, nudge, nudge.
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What?? I was talking about pirates.
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Are we talking “Jolly Rogering” and “Broad”sides?
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You should research Virtus more deeply. It’s not an Amazon, not Wonder Woman, but a lesser deity with a somewhat confused history on gender. In some places Virtus is a young boy (Vir, Latin for man), and at other times a woman with manly characteristics.
Let’s say “transgender” just for the fun of it.
Of course, if you insist on Virtus being a man, then Ken Cuccinelli looks dumber, for wanting to cover a man’s chest, than John Ashcroft and his blue evening gown.
Ooh, ooh! Look everyone! Bacon is Virtus Signaling!
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The transgender angle struck me, too. A reason the flag and seal are safe. I obviously don’t know this intern writer, and shouldn’t be harsh, but there wasn’t anything ambiguous about Booth’s shout in Ford’s Theater and it would be unwise for “conservatives” to start a debate over the flag by proposing their own set of revisions. And I assumed all knew the dominant figure was based on a Roman image.
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Meh, apparently there are some who missed Western Civ and Roman and Greek mythology. Homeschooled in a 1st Commandment environment? Or, maybe just another UVa grad?
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It’s just been a long time. Why the flag had only been adopted for a little more than a hundred years when I took Mythology, a modern “come here” in Virginia time.
There’s been so much modern mythological detritus cluttering up my poor brain since that the Roman and Greek stuff has faded into obscurity. And “Vexillological” who knew?
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“First and foremost, [conservatives] must resist succumbing to woke agendas. Simultaneously, conservatives should not overlook the possibility that a redesign might better represent their state’s heritage and values.” Those two points contradict. A “woke agenda” might be exactly what a majority of Virginians feels “better represent[s] their state’s heritage and values. How do you expect a British loyalist in 1776 felt about the “woke” mob calling his king a tyrant?
“Vexillollogist” indeed!
First graders in Virginia learn to identify their state flag. When I was subbing in a first grade class and the flag was part of the lesson plan, I had one student portray the “Amazon” (haha) and another the tyrant, with the class calling out “Sic semper tyrannis.”
The students went wild and I had to let everyone have a turn as one of the other.
We discussed this issue not so long ago:
I ask the same question as Virginia Gentlemen, below: Is there some reason we are compelled to invite the “woke” to more mischief? The answer is NO, a thousand times, NO!
I don’t see this happening anytime soon, but…nobody saw the current craziness a few years ago.
And here is a reason to be diligent – the high school in Montross, Westmoreland County, was historically “Washington & Lee High School.”
Westmoreland had Washington, born at Wakefield, and Lee born at Stratford Hall. (Also, James Monroe!) A new high school was recently built and they decided on a new name – Westmoreland High School. Un-be-liev-able.
I bet the kids getting “educated” have no idea of the history of the region.
I agree but not for woke reasons. I agree the state flag could use some revision. I like Ohio’s flag – a pennant style – keep the blue field, make the seal smaller, move it toward the flag pole and place a mountain scene above the seal across the top to the edge and a beach scene below the seal the same distance.
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