what does it mean?

[cos]

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This weekend, I saw a bumper sticker that said,
Straight, White, English-Speaking
Proud American
For a moment, I was offended ... then I started thinking of several different possible intentions, meanings, and contexts for this slogan. After a bit of confusion, I settled on curiosity. What does it mean? What did the people who sold it intend for it to convey, and what did the person who put it on their car intend to say by it? I can think of several different possibilities or nuances, and maybe there are more.

So tell me, what do you read in this bumper sticker slogan? And if, like me, you see several possibilities, which one came first, before you thought about it?

Comments

[goljerp]

The first thing that I thought of was that the unspoken end of the message was ", and I like beating up anyone who isn't all of the above". Or at least, "and it's OK to discriminate against anyone who isn't all of the above".

I suppose it's possible that someone would buy it without the implied addition at the end... but I dunno. I mean, I am Straight, White, English-Speaking, and American. I'm not terribly proud right now, considering the stuff that our president and military are doing in our names. But even in the days that I was unreservedly proud to be an american, I felt no urge to put a bumper sticker like that on my car.