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Nigel W. Jones '91, a Kirkland House resident at the time, said he found the Confederate flag offensive...
...People will tell you that the flag means a lot of different things," he said in February 1991. "It stands for white supremacy and it stands for Slavery. It is a symbol of the white South...
Kerrigan countered that her flag was simply a demonstration of affection for the South...
...understand why people can sever the negative connotations from every flag except mine," she said...
Nevertheless, Forbes -- a conservative publication, ordinarily not averse to a bit of flag waving -- brings enormous sympathy to this tale of Americans abandoning their country. It seems that "victim chic," ordinarily decried as a left-wing phenomenon, knows no bounds of reason or ideology. These people, after all, are less like traditional refugees than they are like the Americans who went to Canada during the Vietnam War. They are fleeing the draft -- of their wallets, not their bodies. It's a smaller imposition, some might think. Those who fled in the 1960s were motivated, at best, by principled opposition...