Taxpayer-funded PBS once again pushed a fringe issue into the forefront of the news. This time it was a purely symbolic one. Saturday’s PBS News Weekend, devoted a full five minutes to Minnesota’s move to replace its state flag, staggeringly described by PBS as “what one critic called a cluttered, genocidal mess,” with a less offensive, abstract design.
Well, that escalated quickly.
The online headline captured the politically correct motivation but without going crazy with “genocidal” rhetoric: “How Minnesota redesigned its state flag to remove insensitive imagery.”
Host John Yang first noted the original flag’s “culturally insensitive imagery” in the show’s introduction before going even further.
Yang: State flags have become part of the national reckoning of cultural sensitivity and the historic treatment of Native Americans…
