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

[smallbug.livejournal.com]

so, to keep this simple. i saw two different meanings.
one, to be an asshole, to show that this is what America IS.
the other, to be ironic, that this is how we act that America is. oh, and i guess one more. to just be proud of who you....having it be seen as "hip" to be anything else than what the sticker states. and to laugh at popculture and say, it is okay to be white, straight, english speaking american. and to be proud of whoever you may be. and to state the pride.
now justso you all know this is coming from someone who is NOT white, wasn't english speaking to begin with, nor neccesarily straight (yet straight identifying). okay, now off to read two pages of comments!