"The Confederate battle flag – marked by its field of red and a blue X shape with white stars – has been co-opted over the years by white supremacist hate groups."
I am baffled by the use of the word co-opted here; these groups are ideologically speaking, soul-mates. What a fucking WEIRD sentence to publish there, The Guardian.
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