Media Defend Mexican Flag Being Flown at L.A. Riots: ‘Tradition’; ‘Diversity’

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Media Defend Mexican Flag Being Flown at L.A. Riots: ‘Tradition’; ‘Diversity’

Joel B. Pollak 12 Jun 2025

Mainstream media outlets, perhaps eager to help Democrats deal with the public relations disaster caused by rioters waving the Mexican flag at riots in Los Angeles, are rushing to provide explanations or interpretations.

Politico explained in a sub-headline that flying the Mexican flag is a “long tradition … during times of anti-immigrant sentiment.”

It added:

    Angelica Salas, a prominent activist in the state and executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, noted protesters also hoisted the flag in 2006, during massive demonstrations against George W. Bush-era legislation to crack down on illegal immigration.

    …

    When you see a lot of young people with their flags, it’s also claiming and [showing] support for their parents. So many of the young people who are marching are U.S. citizens, they’re second-, third-generation, maybe they are the first who were born in this country. Very much U.S. citizens by birth, but they want their parents to also know that they’re standing with them.

    I feel like every time I ask a young person — whether they’re carrying a Mexican flag, a Salvadoran flag, a Guatemalan flag, or any other flag — it’s just about, ‘I want people to understand I’m proud of who I am. I’m not ashamed to be Mexican, and I’m certainly not ashamed of my parents. And I want them to know that I will not reject them.’ Because there’s a lot of pressure to reject the Mexican heritage.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

... or, it's an emblem for the Mexican Reconquista of territory lost to America in the 1840's.

[Wingnut]

Diversity ain't working out well.

[Smokin Joe]

If Canadians invaded Michigan and started burning stuff and breaking windows and looting, would their Maple Leaf banners be as welcome as the Mexican flags and Salvadoran flags in LA? (asking for a friend).

[DefiantMassRINO]

Which would rain down more violence upon persons ... a Canadian flag or a Montreal Canadiens game jersey?

If Canadians invaded Michigan and started burning stuff and breaking windows and looting, would their Maple Leaf banners be as welcome as the Mexican flags and Salvadoran flags in LA? (asking for a friend).

[Free Vulcan]

You could make the same argument for the Confederate flag.

[Wingnut]

You could make the same argument for the Confederate flag.

I wouldn't.

[cato potatoe]

... or, it's an emblem for the Mexican Reconquista of territory lost to America in the 1840's.

So in other words, Pat Buchanan was right all along. 

[DefiantMassRINO]

Has Pat Buchanan ever been wrong?

So in other words, Pat Buchanan was right all along.

[berdie]

I've read lots of malarkey and this is in the top 10.

[roamer_1]

... or, it's an emblem for the Mexican Reconquista of territory lost to America in the 1840's.

That is precisely what it is.

[roamer_1]

You could make the same argument for the Confederate flag.

No, that's different. That is an American signal of American rebellion. As is the Gadsen flag... Or the very apt to this situation, Gonzales flag.

[Bigun]

So in other words, Pat Buchanan was right all along.

  Absolutely!

[roamer_1]

If Canadians invaded Michigan and started burning stuff and breaking windows and looting, would their Maple Leaf banners be as welcome as the Mexican flags and Salvadoran flags in LA? (asking for a friend).

Canucks wear patch around here - They are Canucks and damn proud of it. And Canadian flags are often flown here at official events - All that is different though. That is accommodated as an honor.

But I cannot recall a Canadian flag hung in rebellion, nor even holding ground (hanging from a private house or flagpole). I don't know that I would even be offended by that if I knew is was a Canadian holiday event or some such. 

The point being that it is not flown in rebellion. The ONLY time I have seen it flown here in rebellion was as part of the Trucker's strike, alongside the Stars and Stripes... And that cannot be taken as the same kind of flavor.

[berdie]

Canucks wear patch around here - They are Canucks and damn proud of it. And Canadian flags are often flown here at official events - All that is different though. That is accommodated as an honor.

But I cannot recall a Canadian flag hung in rebellion, nor even holding ground (hanging from a private house or flagpole). I don't know that I would even be offended by that if I knew is was a Canadian holiday event or some such. 

The point being that it is not flown in rebellion. The ONLY time I have seen it flown here in rebellion was as part of the Trucker's strike, alongside the Stars and Stripes... And that cannot be taken as the same kind of flavor.

Being much further south than you, the only time I have seen a Canadian flag was at the AAC when I used to go to basketball games. The arena is dual purpose for hockey games. Many Canadian teams play. US flag at the other end. I really wasn't offended by that. I have yet to see the Canucks do a protest here, lol.

[jafo2010]

When protests become violent, free speech is no longer on the table.  Maintaining a peaceful environment is.  Anyone throwing solid objects, particularly Molotov cocktails, bricks, mortar, cement, frozen bottles, all those folks should be treated like a combatant shooting a weapon or wielding or knife.  I say shoot them on sight.  Don't have to kill them, one can try to wound them and arrest them.  If they live, the charge they face at the top of the list should be attempted 1st degree murder. 

Frankly, the Dems are anti American, they fully support the anarchy, and I consider all of them traitors.  The idiocy must end.

[roamer_1]

Being much further south than you, the only time I have seen a Canadian flag was at the AAC when I used to go to basketball games. The arena is dual purpose for hockey games. Many Canadian teams play. US flag at the other end. I really wasn't offended by that. I have yet to see the Canucks do a protest here, lol.

Up in here Canucks are as likely as Mexicans are down by you - Maybe not as many, since there are plenty native Texans with Mexican blood... And not as easy to discern, as skin color plays a part down there by you...

But I am on the easternmost edge of the Pacific Northwest - A region better derfined by itself than by borders. Cattle country up here stretches right through my valley and points west through Idaho and eastern Washington and all the way up through Alberta Canada... The Salish/Kootenai Native people span Montana, Idaho, Eastern Washinton and all up into Alberta and British Columbia... The Great Kootenai Forest runs through five states and two provinces... So the interchange across the border is quite vigorous,and more naturally defined by the Rockies stretching over to the Pacific coast.

The point being that the Canadian flag is commonly seen here - Though normally as a patch or t-shirt or bumper sticker. When we do see Canadian flags it is at events like Rodeo and other sports as a welcome to them, even as Old Glory is flown at the rodeos up north. But not in rebellion.

Does it bother y'all for Mexicans to do the same? I mean wearing patch, or the Mexican flag flying with Old Glory at a Rodeo or some such??? I would imagine not.

But raising that flag in rebellion is another thing.