Reductio Ad Absurdum: A Girl, a Cuban Flag Patch, and 'Faux' Outrage

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This is what happens when conservatives in Miami see a Cuban flag patch on Emma Gonzalez's olive-drab jacket during her speech about the need for common-sense gun control laws:

 This is communistic as well. Her choice of attire, green army jacket and Cuban flag on one shoulder. Offensive to me! She looks like a young communist sympathizer.
Logic exercise...Miami Politics 101.



Emma Gonzalez wore a jacket with a Cuban shoulder patch at the recent gun control (NOT ban all guns) protest.

Cuba currently is misgoverned by a Communist dictatorship.

 That dictatorship appropriated, as it did everything else in Cuba, the flag that has flown over the island since 1902.

 Emma Gonzalez had the audacity to wear a patch bearing the image of that flag to celebrate her heritage.

 Enter "conservative logic."

 Emma Gonzalez is at a protest march related to a controversial topic. (Check.)

 Emma Gonzalez is wearing an army jacket with all kinds of patches. (Check.)

 Look! Emma Gonzalez is wearing a Cuban flag patch. While wearing an army jacket. While talking about a controversial topic! (Check. Check. Check.)


Therefore, Emma Gonzalez is a Communist stooge at best, a full-blooded Communist supporter at worst.
Because, you know, wearing an army-style jacket with a Cuban flag automatically makes you a Commie or a Commie stooge.
By THAT logic, then anyone who flies a Cuban flag in Miami, and that means anyone, is also a Communist supporter or fellow traveler.
Does this mean that South Florida will have to haul down every Cuban flag flying overhead? And we are talking about hundreds, if not thousands, of Cuban flags. Because, Oh my God! Cuba is a Communist country!
Fact: Judging people by what they choose to wear is NEVER a good idea, especially when you are talking about a young woman whose father is a Cuban exile who fled that imprisoned island in 1968 and is a respected lawyer in Parkland, Florida.
Another fact: Just because Steve King (R-IA), a guy who displays a Confederate flag in his Congressional office and retweets white supremacist crap every chance he gets, says that Emma is a Commie...well, as the song goes, "it ain't necessarily so." 

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