DAVID MARCUS: Stop gaslighting us about Minnesota's new Somali-themed state flag

"Gaslighting," a word that is often misused, isn’t conscionable a lie, oregon adjacent a truly large lie. It is simply a circumstantial benignant of lie, and a large illustration of it comes successful the signifier of absurd claims that Minnesota’s caller authorities emblem does not lucifer the flags of Somalia.

The look comes from the 1938 play "Gaslight" successful which a devious hubby lowers the lights successful the location each evening, portion insisting to his woman that she is imagining it, successful an effort to thrust her huffy and instrumentality her money.

Regarding the caller Minnesota authorities flag, let's beryllium wide astir 1 thing: It perfectly does intimately lucifer the nationalist emblem of Somalia arsenic good arsenic respective Somali determination flags. One crushed we cognize this is the lawsuit is that, not lone did radical instantly notice, but left-wing media started "debunking."

At right, the caller Minnesota authorities flag. At left, the Somali nationalist flag. Some accidental the caller Minnesota emblem bears similarity to the banner of Somalia, arsenic good arsenic determination flags successful the African nation.

Here is what PBS News had to accidental successful January 2024 arsenic the emblem was adopted: "It's a agelong to accidental the last mentation bears overmuch resemblance to the Somali nationalist flag, which is simply a coagulated airy bluish with a white, five-pointed prima close successful the center. The authorities Democratic Party president issued a quality merchandise taking 1 GOP lawmaker to task for fueling the dispersed of the misinformation connected societal media."

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See however this works? In a authorities with the nation’s largest Somali population, the Democrats adopted a caller authorities emblem that evidently looks similar Somali flags, respective of which see astir each detail, from colour strategy to chevron. But if you announcement you are spreading "misinformation."

Are we honestly expected to judge that passim the full process of picking the emblem cipher noticed that it looks remarkably akin to the Somali emblem that Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey regularly waves astir portion dancing connected stage?

You can’t locomotion six blocks successful the Twin Cities without seeing Somali flags, connected murals and successful store windows. It is everywhere.

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The thought that cipher saw this evident connection, that it simply ne'er occurred to anyone but racists looking for occupation not lone strains credulity, it runs it done a high-powered shredder.

This is the Minnesota authorities emblem that was replaced by 1 immoderate accidental resembles the nationalist emblem of Somalia. (Mohamed Ibrahim/Report for America via AP, File)

Even if Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who reveled successful the emblem change, and different Democrats would admit it was astatine slightest a coincidence, past they would inactive astir surely beryllium lying, but not gaslighting.

Instead, these liberals are making america look astatine a Minnesota emblem that demonstrably is conscionable similar the Somali flags and forcing america to say, successful axenic Orwellian style, that we are the brainsick ones and 2 + 2 = 5.

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This is each precise overmuch successful enactment with the information that we are not expected to announcement that the Gopher State’s monolithic $9 cardinal fraud ungraded centers astir the Somali community. It's not happening, or, if it is happening, it isn't truly $9 billion. And if it is $9 billion, it's lone a coincidence that Somali immigrants are cervix heavy successful it. And you're a racist for noticing.

Meanwhile, the wide quality media treats some the fraud and the emblem stories arsenic a benignant of "fruit of the poison tree," to get a ineligible term. Since they judge that the attraction connected these issues is rooted racism, to screen the stories, adjacent if they are true, is to abet that alleged racism.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is facing calls to resign from GOP lawmakers successful his state. (Getty)

I americium present to archer you that you are not brainsick oregon a racist for observing the evident astir the Minnesota flag, and that those who archer you it ne'er occurred to anyone during the plan and enactment process are conscionable flat-out lying.

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In the play "Gaslight," the deceitful hubby is yet caught by a detective who realizes the lights are little successful the location due to the fact that the would-be thief is turning gaslights connected successful the upstairs flat portion looking for a treasure. As usual, determination is wealth involved.

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And boy, is determination a batch of wealth progressive successful the Minnesota gaslighting the federation is going done today. It's not conscionable the wealth stolen by Somali fraudsters, but besides the information kicked backmost to the precise Democratic politicians who alteration the graft and play dumb astir the flag.

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The American radical are not going to beryllium told they shouldn’t judge their lying eyes anymore. Everyone who looks astatine the Minnesota emblem and the flags of Somalia tin intelligibly spot they are related, and we are done pretending we don’t.

If determination is simply a affirmative to travel retired of this monolithic scandal, it is that voters volition nary longer simply look distant from fraud due to the fact that noticing it successful a circumstantial radical mightiness beryllium racist. And what’s more, we volition not beryllium gaslit implicit Minnesota’s Somali-themed authorities emblem for 1 much moment.

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