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

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

I take this as a snarky toward other groups -- black, gay, Spanish-speaking, Vietnamese, whatever. It's rare that a straight, white, English-speaking American makes the news for merely being straight, white, or English-speaking -- whereas you're much more likely to make the news for being something other than any of those three. It also points out the defaults for the US. When the news says "community leaders", the default is white. If they're talking about reaction to a shooting in, say, Mattapan, it would become "black community leaders".