The point here is that when/if it turns ugly, perpetrators will wave flag. Hence association of open flag waving with "the ugly stuff is about to happen in the open and for real".
> The point here is that when/if it turns ugly, perpetrators will wave flag.
It already is ugly, and in plain sight. That's my point: people who aren't themselves directly affected by it don't notice it or dismiss it because it doesn't look like the jingoistic, flag-waving nationalism that they think of, but that doesn't mean it's not there.
It already is ugly, and in plain sight. That's my point: people who aren't themselves directly affected by it don't notice it or dismiss it because it doesn't look like the jingoistic, flag-waving nationalism that they think of, but that doesn't mean it's not there.