The Cult Melted Down Over New Minnesota State Flag

December 20, 2023 Extremists, Trump cultists

Media Matters reports:

After a Minnesota commission unveiled its finalist pick for a new state flag to replace a racially offensive design, right-wing media insisted that the new design resembled one from a state in Somalia. Conservatives used the redesign to promote the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, claiming that Minnesota has been “conquered” by Somali immigrants. Right-wing media claimed the design’s green and white stripes, which a state commission ultimately chose to remove from the final design, resembled Somalia’s flag.

Conservative radio host Charlie Kirk and guest, former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), ranted that the new Minnesota flag shows that Somali immigrants are “conquering” the state: “It is a great replacement.” Kirk and Bachmann went on a racist rant about Somalis, claiming they have “a fraud culture” and that Muslims are “conquering” Minnesota and want to turn it into ”Minnesota-stan” and an “Islamic state.”

From a June 2023 article about the old flag:

Minnesota’s flag falls into the grouping that populates the bottom of most rankings — state seals plopped into the middle of a solid background. Others know exactly what it looks like and like it even less. The seal includes many images, but the central theme is of a farmer tilling a field with a Native American on horseback riding in the distance. While the pre-statehood-designed seal and flag might be subject to interpretation, a poem written by the wife of the designer says this about the image: “We claim his noble heritage/And Minnesota’s land/Must pass with all its untold wealth/To the white man’s grasping hand.”

As you’ll see at the first link above, the flag with “Somalia stripes” was also met with spittle-flecked racist outrage on Newsmax, OAN, and at Gateway Pundit. But the state ultimately opted for the simpler design. Of note, the first tweet below from Stew “Execute All Democrats” Peters would never have been allowed on pre-Elmo Twitter.



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