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

[afer.livejournal.com]

I hear it as similar to the college boys who complain "there's the BSU and a La Rasa and the WymynsCenter, why can't there be a straight white guy club?" To which the classic response is, of course, that their whole college is still, despite much diversification in the last thirty-some years, a straight white guy club.

I would lean heavily toward the guess that neither the printer nor the purchaser meant it to be along the lines of "straight but not narrow," "your marriage does not undermine my marriage," and "another man against violence against women."