A bunch of teepees, signifying native Americans, with most of them scratched out and the remaining few in a tiny corner. In the shape of an American flag.
Gosh. Until I read the comments, I thought it was a comment on disenfranchisement. I saw what looked like crosses obliterated with a marker pen, as if most of them don't matter. Which, if I understand American elections properly, is a fairly common feeling in voters from non-swing states.
The truth is different, and much harsher, but I think (artistic intent notwithstanding) it's actually got the second meaning too. Depends - I still don't really see it as a teepee, even though I know now what it is. Is that symbol a common representation of the teepee on the left of the Atlantic that I'm not used to 'cos I'm from the right, or is my brain just broken?
Those don't look like crosses, at all, to me - they're clearly triangles where the side limbs protrude across the top. It doesn't look anything like a cross. It doesn't even look like an icythys, and if it *was* supposed to be an icythys, it would be stupid, because "Christians" are one of the few groups in the USA that NOBODY is trying to disenfrachise.
Anyway. There's only one thing shaped like that that came to mind, to me, especially when it was clear that the crossed bits at the top weren't accident or sloppiness, they were deliberately there.
Er... okay. Dude. I meant cross as in "X". Like you put on the ballot paper. Hence the thoughts on disenfranchisement. Nothing to do with Christianity. Of course it's not a Christian cross.
Regionalisms, gotta love 'em. Over here, you would never say "cross" when you meant "x", So as soon as you said "it looked like a cross" I was all "whut".
Okay, now that I know that 'cross' is 'X', what you're saying makes sense -- I can see them as a line/blank with an "X" on it. The disenfranchisement interpretation makes sense visually.
But, yeah. They're meant to be teepees, and it's both true and sad.
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Date: 2012-11-28 03:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-11-28 03:44 am (UTC)A bunch of teepees, signifying native Americans, with most of them scratched out and the remaining few in a tiny corner. In the shape of an American flag.
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Date: 2012-11-28 03:47 am (UTC)Correct. Usenet habits die hard.
A bunch of teepees, signifying native Americans, ...
I did not recognise the meaning of the symbol, and couldn't find out on a low-to-medium effort google.
Given that information, then I agree: harsh.
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Date: 2012-11-29 08:33 pm (UTC)The truth is different, and much harsher, but I think (artistic intent notwithstanding) it's actually got the second meaning too. Depends - I still don't really see it as a teepee, even though I know now what it is. Is that symbol a common representation of the teepee on the left of the Atlantic that I'm not used to 'cos I'm from the right, or is my brain just broken?
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Date: 2012-11-29 08:44 pm (UTC)Anyway. There's only one thing shaped like that that came to mind, to me, especially when it was clear that the crossed bits at the top weren't accident or sloppiness, they were deliberately there.
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Date: 2012-12-02 07:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-02 05:18 pm (UTC)That makes much more sense now!
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Date: 2012-12-02 06:01 pm (UTC)But, yeah. They're meant to be teepees, and it's both true and sad.
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