Recently I wrote about syndicated conservative columnist Michelle Malkin's double standard regarding the flying of the flags of other nations. Flying the Danish flag rocks; flying the Mexican flag means you're a racist who hates America. 70 comments later, I think we're at the point where I can look back at the things I have learned.

1. People who love conservative columnists are avid defenders of free speech. I expected them to be the types that dislike the ACLU and controversial artwork funded by the National Endowment for the arts, but apparently people who love conservative columnists really love "Piss Christ" as much as I do. That love of free speech, however, does not apply to hate speech such as waving a flag of a different country. If that different country is Mexico. Danish flags rock.

2. People who love conservative columnists are avid fans of totalitarian governments. I suspected some sort of small-government loving, red-scared communist haters, but instead I got people who don't fear a powerful government because being powerful means that you are right. Seriously, someone actually typed, "artists and the like are determined to bring down the US. Because it is powerful. ... Maybe it's powerful because it is right." Who needs checks and balances on power? Maybe the powerful are right all the time, otherwise they wouldn't be so powerful, did you ever think of that? Fucking artists destroying America.

3. People who love conservative columnists are all about context and moral relativism. I expected some sort of strident anti-flip-flopping firm moral beliefs, but no, it's absolutely appropriate to wave the flag of Denmark (where socialist and communist parties represent about half of the governement, where abortions are legal, the medicine is socialized, the taxes are high, and gays get domestic partner benefits) but it's absolutely horrid that a Mexican-American might wave a Mexican flag. Because Mexicans who want the rest of their familes to be able to come to America clearly hate America. Think about: Do you ever invite your family members to places you don't hate? So, yes, I was for the flying of flags of socialist countries before I was against flying the flags of America-hating people who are dying to become the smallest cogs in our capitalist machine.

4. People who love conservative columnists who see pro-immigration demonstrators as "militant racism" will be quick to correct anyone who suggests that anti-immigration stances might be based on racism. How dare you play the race card that somebody else already dealt? Sure, just because a conservative columnist calls half a million pro-immigration demonstrators racists, that doesn't mean anybody else can question the racist motives of conservative columnists. Because hispanics and whites are actually both part of the caucasian race. Seriously, someone actually wrote that. I think the double speak is starting to make sense now: Racist Mexicans hate white America because they're from a different race, but white Americans who hate racist Mexicans can't be racist themselves because Mexicans and Whites are all brothers of the same race.

5. People who love conservative columnists don't think people from one country should tell another country what to do. I was expecting a bunch of people who would jump on Bill O'Reilly's boycott of the French or support the U.S. government overthrowing the governments of other nations. But no, I found a bunch of strict isolationists that beleive that people from one country have no right to tell people from another country what types of laws and policies they should have. For example it would be wrong for someone from Mexico to try to influence U.S. immigration policy, but keep in mind that it would be totally right for someone from the U.S. to try to influence Danish press freedoms.

Anyway, that's the Cliff's Notes version of this thread. Maybe you'll find some gems in there that I missed. There's also a nice Danish taco recipe.