what does it mean?

[cos]

Please comment on this post before you read anyone else's comments.

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

[ericjay.livejournal.com]

The absolute first thing that popped into my mind was that it was satire. A commentary on the "Straight, White, English-Speaking" demographic being the only ones left who are allowed to show pride in their ethnicity/religion/culture/sexual orientation without somehow being considered suspect.

Of course, the last thing I read BEFORE reading this post of yours was the Mass ACLU's Mass Impact (after reading your post in b0st0n)... so maybe that biased my brain?

Of course, it also might be my satirical sense of humor, which lead me to leave this comment (http://www.livejournal.com/users/gangsta_ho_bag/182265.html?thread=1007097#t1007097) in a friend's LJ recently... which come to think of, you won't be able to read because the original post was friends only... but the post was about a bad experience with a republican in a bar, and some of the comments suggested opening up liberals only bars... so I replied with the (satirical) idea that maybe someone should open a bar that allowed everyone except for straight White Christian men.

[cos]

Huh, now I'm curious to hear the story of the bad experience.