Seven Red

As most of my readers will know, I’m not exactly Mr. Patriotism. Still, the following clips are interesting in all kinds of ways. The first is from the East Village in New York City, the second from Portland, Oregon. Both are places that have been told repeatedly over the last 20 years or so that they represent the worst of this country; they are rhetorically excised from the (imaginary) community as a matter of course. So it’s interesting to me, anyway, to see a kind of reclaiming of that imaginary status in this way. I think the deeply discriminatory and unjust results on the LGBT marriage and adoption propositions shows that we have a long way to go indeed. Still (and I hesitate to “but” or “still” it, given how horrendous those propositions actually are), these are remarkable rhetorical artifacts. Multitude?

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