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posted August 30, 2023 01:00 AM            

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So, that “don’t tread on me” snake, is called the Gadsden flag, and is tied to racism and the confederate flag?
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posted August 30, 2023 01:45 AM            

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It must be miserable to always see racism everywhere. The “don’t tread on me” snake has 13 segments to represent the original 13 colonies, and it was a message to England that the colonists will defend themselves if attacked. The British were known to fear snakes, so that is why snake symbolism was used. The Brits should have taken heed, and they wouldn’t have had their @sses handed to them and been sent packing back to Merry Ol’ England to report that they lost. I fail to see the racism. Of course, the left hates America, so there you go…

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posted August 30, 2023 02:08 AM            

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I did try to find some correlation, and there really is no legitimate racial component:

The snake, it turns out, was something of a Colonial-era meme, evidently originated by Benjamin Franklin. In 1751, Franklin made the satirical suggestion that the colonies might repay the Crown for shipping convicts to America by distributing rattlesnakes around England, “particularly in the Gardens of the Prime Ministers, the Lords of Trade and Members of Parliament; for to them we are most particularly obliged.” Later, in what may be America’s first-ever political cartoon, Franklin published the famous “Join or Die” image, which depicts the American colonies as segments of a snake. Among other borrowers, Paul Revere put the snake in a seventeen-seventies newspaper nameplate. Gadsden’s venomous remix, for a flag used by Continental sailors, depicted the reassembled rattler as a righteous threat to trampling imperialism. “The origins of ‘Don’t Tread On Me,’ ” Leepson summarizes, “were completely, one hundred percent anti-British, and pro-revolution.” Indeed, that E.E.O.C. directive agrees, “It is clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context.”
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-shifting-symbolism-of-the-gadsden-flag

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