A study published in Race and Social Problems found Tea Party supporters were more likely to be racist than your average white American.

Am I saying that the swastika and Gadsden flag are on equal footing in terms of almost universal knowledge of hateful appropriation? No, the controversy surrounding the Gadsden flag is still relatively nebulous.

The Gadsden flag can be traced back to 1775, when newly enlisted marines marched carrying drums painted with coiled rattlesnakes, 13 rattles and the motto “Don’t Tread on Me.” It was named after South Carolina Continental Army Col. Christopher Gadsden, who was on the Marine Committee.

Recently, paparazzi pictures of actor Chris Pratt wearing a “Don’t Tread on Me” shirt have emerged, further bolstering his long-awaited cancellation. He has been rumoured to be a hard-core conservative, and follows Instagram and Twitter accounts belonging to racist pundit Ben Shapiro, white supremacist Rep. Dan Crenshaw — who liked an image of himself on a Neo- Nazi meme account — and the glorified Trump stan account Turning Point USA.

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Moreover, a Vox article analyzing the legacy of the Tea Party with respect to the 2016 election stated the party’s opposition to Obama is what empowered Southern members to express racist sentiments — no matter how discreet that racism was.

The Purpose of the Mars Society is to further the goal of the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004

This flag is racist. It is disgusting to see our administration — not just some random individual living on campus — display the flag so flagrantly.

As a New Yorker article points out, the Gadsden flag wasn’t the first symbol to be  misappropriated and used for racist, bigoted means — the swastika was as well.

The Mars Flag flies from atop the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA, and will soon fly from stations in Iceland and Australia. These are analog Mars research stations, investigating Earth-like environments with some similarities to Mars. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004

Any knowledge of American history and identity can tell you it was not formed under principles of racial equity. But as previously mentioned, the historical origins of an object does not necessarily define its present connotations.

These people utilizing one of the earliest symbols of American identity to represent themselves and their racist aims is intentional. They are calling back an old America. That is what the flag means, and that is why it is hateful.

Held proudly alongside the Gadsden flag, protestors at Tea Party rallies would hold signs saying phrases such as: ‘‘A Village in Kenya Is Missing Its Idiot: Deport Obama!” ‘‘Congress = Slave Owner; Taxpayer = N**gar’’ and ‘‘Imam Obama Wants to Ban Pork: Don’t Let Him Steal Your Meat,” according to Vox.

But that does not change the fact that the flag has been — and continues to be — used by racists and fanatics to represent their disgusting aims. And these modern uses affect any current meaning the flag holds.

Not only has its meaning been appropriated by racists to advance their agendas, but the flag’s original context in itself represents an America that held Black people in bondage, and committed genocide against Indigenous peoples.

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The designer, Pascal Lee, perhaps wanted to avoid the ambiguity of the ♂ symbol, not wanting to alienate women, and perhaps also wanted a more “serious”, conservative-looking design. Richard Knipel, 19 Jun 2004

The Mars Society sponsored flag of Mars seems to be in dark shades of green and blue, and its ratio seems to be 3:5, judging from these photos (slow server!), taken in early 2004 at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA: c21d04eva02.jpg c22d13por01.jpg c23d07str01.jpg c23d05obs01.jpg c22d05eva01.jpg (*) c22d12eva01.jpg (*) c22d07eva05.jpg (*) c22d02rov03.jpg (*) t_c21d01str01.jpg (night photo) c29d02hab04.jpg (used as a curtain — tsk-tsk, desacration!) (* flag shown as suit shoulder patch) This flag may not be great looking, with those non-contrasting colors, but it is undoubtably a flag. António Martins, 17 Jul 2004The Mars Flag flies from atop the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA, and will soon fly from stations in Iceland and Australia. These are analog Mars research stations, investigating Earth-like environments with some similarities to Mars. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004 The research station is supposed to simulate “Mars on Earth”, like an embassy represents one country’s territory inside another. Dean McGee, 12 Jul 2002 The Purpose of the Mars Society is to further the goal of the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004 The flag was half-staffed at the Utah station for the Columbia tragedy, as seen on the Mars Society website. Richard Knipel, 17 Jul 2004 During its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, the Space Shuttle Discovery carried a Martian flag into orbit for the first time. It was a red, green and blue tricolor, with the vertical red segment closest to the mast, followed by the green, and then the blue. Its form was originally suggested to Mars Society president Robert Zubrin by Mars Arctic Research Station task force leader Pascal Lee during their summer 1999 site selection expedition to Devon Island. The red, green and blue colors derive from stages of Mars’ transformation from barrenness to life depicted in the epic Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Red, green and blue are also the primary components of the spectrum, symbolizing unity in diversity, as well as light itself, and thus reason and enlightenment. The tricolor form also traditionally represents the republican values of liberty, equality and justice. The flag was sewn by Maggie Zubrin and brought aboard at the invitation of astronaut John Mace Grunsfeld. (Astronauts are allowed to manifest several items of special importance on Space Shuttle flights of an official nature.) Jim Burk, 06 Jan 2000, quoting from the Mars Society website Charmed by the flag’s undulations, I can imagine my overwrought meditation transcending its worries about the how, the when, and transforming into a much more visceral sort of euphoria, a happy glow tinted with the colors with which Mr. Robinson chose to paint the future. Richard Knipel, 17 Jul 2004, quoting from the Mars Society website Thomas O. Paine’s proposal image by Richard Knipel, 20 Jul 2004 This page has some information about a different Mars Flag given to recipients of the Thomas O. Paine Award for the Advancement of Human Exploration of Mars, given by another space advocacy group, the Planetary Society, presented to the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor teams in 1998. (Larger image here.) The symbolism is pretty clear: Mars points the way from Earth toward the stars. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004 The recipient is awarded a memorial plaque and the prestigious Mars flag designed by Mr. Paine. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004, quoting from the NASA website The "circle + arrow pointing to the upper right" is the astronomical symbol for Mars. Marc Pasquin, 18 Jul 2004 Bergen County Technical High School project flag image by António Martins, 14 Jun 2004 At this website, Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro, US-NJ, plays voyage to Mars simulation. Included among other important requirements, a community flag for the habitat dwellers. On this on line photo (top left), it is shown in all of its splendour: Red ~2:5 flag with a row of 12 black 5-pointed stars pointing outwards at the bottom and top, black triangles blocking the hoist and fly edges, edged in the inside sides irregularly in yellow each with a column of four red 5-pointed stars; on the main red area, the lettering "THE MARS FLAG" in yellow capitals set in a descending text line. António Martins, 14 Jun 2004

The Tea Party, a right-wing political movement said to represent economic concerns — but in actuality was a racist reaction to former President Barack Obama’s election — has repeatedly used the Gadsden flag to represent its political agenda.

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The flag was half-staffed at the Utah station for the Columbia tragedy, as seen on the Mars Society website. Richard Knipel, 17 Jul 2004

Last modified: 2019-08-06 by rob raeside Keywords: mars | mars society | terraforming | proposal | lee (pascal) | paine (thomas o.) | the mars flag | Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors Flags for Mars: overview Mars Society proposal Thomas O. Paine’s proposal Bergen County Technical High School project flag Flags in space (incl. on Mars) See also: Planets Fictional flags of Mars: Robinson’s Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy Stranger in a strange land Mars attacks! Looney tunes Armitage series Kenran Butoh Sai: The Mars Daybreak United Colonies of Mars, Zone of the Enders New Houston, Icehenge Association of Mars Explorers Overview There is certainly no shortage of Mars flags now. I remember a Mars Society group once devised an informal vote on 50 or so proposed flags. (Not related at all to the red-green-blue-flag.) But who knows when this need will develop? Richard Knipel, 14 Jun 2004 Mars’ symbolism Mediaeval alchemists were right linking the planet Mars and the metal iron: Mars derives its red color from iron oxide, basically rust, which also colors blood red, giving it the name of the war god. Richard Knipel, 19 Jun 2004 The Mars symbol is basically a shield and spear (Mars/Ares was the god of war). Albert Kirsch, 19 Jul 2004 Almost all Mars’ Flags I have seen have the symbol, indeed the most remarkable aspect of the design of the Mars Society flag is that it does not include it. Richard Knipel, 19 Jun 2004 A Mars symbol on a flag these days would be ambiguous, given that biologists use it for "male", though I suppose sufficient exposure could change public perception of that. (These days one might even associate it with gay rights or something.) Albert Kirsch, 19 Jul 2004 Mars Society proposal image by António Martins, 17 Jul 2004 The Mars Society already makes plenty of good use out of its flag. Richard Knipel, 14 Jun 2004 Red stands for the current desert, green for a 2nd step planet with vegetation and blue for the fully terraformed blue planet Mars. Jorge Candeias, 11 Apr 2001 The designer, Pascal Lee, perhaps wanted to avoid the ambiguity of the ♂ symbol, not wanting to alienate women, and perhaps also wanted a more “serious”, conservative-looking design. Richard Knipel, 19 Jun 2004 The Mars Society sponsored flag of Mars seems to be in dark shades of green and blue, and its ratio seems to be 3:5, judging from these photos (slow server!), taken in early 2004 at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA: c21d04eva02.jpg c22d13por01.jpg c23d07str01.jpg c23d05obs01.jpg c22d05eva01.jpg (*) c22d12eva01.jpg (*) c22d07eva05.jpg (*) c22d02rov03.jpg (*) t_c21d01str01.jpg (night photo) c29d02hab04.jpg (used as a curtain — tsk-tsk, desacration!) (* flag shown as suit shoulder patch) This flag may not be great looking, with those non-contrasting colors, but it is undoubtably a flag. António Martins, 17 Jul 2004The Mars Flag flies from atop the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA, and will soon fly from stations in Iceland and Australia. These are analog Mars research stations, investigating Earth-like environments with some similarities to Mars. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004 The research station is supposed to simulate “Mars on Earth”, like an embassy represents one country’s territory inside another. Dean McGee, 12 Jul 2002 The Purpose of the Mars Society is to further the goal of the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004 The flag was half-staffed at the Utah station for the Columbia tragedy, as seen on the Mars Society website. Richard Knipel, 17 Jul 2004 During its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, the Space Shuttle Discovery carried a Martian flag into orbit for the first time. It was a red, green and blue tricolor, with the vertical red segment closest to the mast, followed by the green, and then the blue. Its form was originally suggested to Mars Society president Robert Zubrin by Mars Arctic Research Station task force leader Pascal Lee during their summer 1999 site selection expedition to Devon Island. The red, green and blue colors derive from stages of Mars’ transformation from barrenness to life depicted in the epic Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Red, green and blue are also the primary components of the spectrum, symbolizing unity in diversity, as well as light itself, and thus reason and enlightenment. The tricolor form also traditionally represents the republican values of liberty, equality and justice. The flag was sewn by Maggie Zubrin and brought aboard at the invitation of astronaut John Mace Grunsfeld. (Astronauts are allowed to manifest several items of special importance on Space Shuttle flights of an official nature.) Jim Burk, 06 Jan 2000, quoting from the Mars Society website Charmed by the flag’s undulations, I can imagine my overwrought meditation transcending its worries about the how, the when, and transforming into a much more visceral sort of euphoria, a happy glow tinted with the colors with which Mr. Robinson chose to paint the future. Richard Knipel, 17 Jul 2004, quoting from the Mars Society website Thomas O. Paine’s proposal image by Richard Knipel, 20 Jul 2004 This page has some information about a different Mars Flag given to recipients of the Thomas O. Paine Award for the Advancement of Human Exploration of Mars, given by another space advocacy group, the Planetary Society, presented to the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor teams in 1998. (Larger image here.) The symbolism is pretty clear: Mars points the way from Earth toward the stars. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004 The recipient is awarded a memorial plaque and the prestigious Mars flag designed by Mr. Paine. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004, quoting from the NASA website The "circle + arrow pointing to the upper right" is the astronomical symbol for Mars. Marc Pasquin, 18 Jul 2004 Bergen County Technical High School project flag image by António Martins, 14 Jun 2004 At this website, Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro, US-NJ, plays voyage to Mars simulation. Included among other important requirements, a community flag for the habitat dwellers. On this on line photo (top left), it is shown in all of its splendour: Red ~2:5 flag with a row of 12 black 5-pointed stars pointing outwards at the bottom and top, black triangles blocking the hoist and fly edges, edged in the inside sides irregularly in yellow each with a column of four red 5-pointed stars; on the main red area, the lettering "THE MARS FLAG" in yellow capitals set in a descending text line. António Martins, 14 Jun 2004

At this website, Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro, US-NJ, plays voyage to Mars simulation. Included among other important requirements, a community flag for the habitat dwellers. On this on line photo (top left), it is shown in all of its splendour: Red ~2:5 flag with a row of 12 black 5-pointed stars pointing outwards at the bottom and top, black triangles blocking the hoist and fly edges, edged in the inside sides irregularly in yellow each with a column of four red 5-pointed stars; on the main red area, the lettering "THE MARS FLAG" in yellow capitals set in a descending text line. António Martins, 14 Jun 2004

There is certainly no shortage of Mars flags now. I remember a Mars Society group once devised an informal vote on 50 or so proposed flags. (Not related at all to the red-green-blue-flag.) But who knows when this need will develop? Richard Knipel, 14 Jun 2004

This page has some information about a different Mars Flag given to recipients of the Thomas O. Paine Award for the Advancement of Human Exploration of Mars, given by another space advocacy group, the Planetary Society, presented to the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor teams in 1998. (Larger image here.) The symbolism is pretty clear: Mars points the way from Earth toward the stars. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004

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Having gone over its history, some may ask how anyone could claim this flag is racist if its origins are so firmly rooted in the American Revolution. How can an early symbol of American identity be considered racist?

The research station is supposed to simulate “Mars on Earth”, like an embassy represents one country’s territory inside another. Dean McGee, 12 Jul 2002

Charmed by the flag’s undulations, I can imagine my overwrought meditation transcending its worries about the how, the when, and transforming into a much more visceral sort of euphoria, a happy glow tinted with the colors with which Mr. Robinson chose to paint the future. Richard Knipel, 17 Jul 2004, quoting from the Mars Society website Thomas O. Paine’s proposal image by Richard Knipel, 20 Jul 2004 This page has some information about a different Mars Flag given to recipients of the Thomas O. Paine Award for the Advancement of Human Exploration of Mars, given by another space advocacy group, the Planetary Society, presented to the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor teams in 1998. (Larger image here.) The symbolism is pretty clear: Mars points the way from Earth toward the stars. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004 The recipient is awarded a memorial plaque and the prestigious Mars flag designed by Mr. Paine. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004, quoting from the NASA website The "circle + arrow pointing to the upper right" is the astronomical symbol for Mars. Marc Pasquin, 18 Jul 2004 Bergen County Technical High School project flag image by António Martins, 14 Jun 2004 At this website, Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro, US-NJ, plays voyage to Mars simulation. Included among other important requirements, a community flag for the habitat dwellers. On this on line photo (top left), it is shown in all of its splendour: Red ~2:5 flag with a row of 12 black 5-pointed stars pointing outwards at the bottom and top, black triangles blocking the hoist and fly edges, edged in the inside sides irregularly in yellow each with a column of four red 5-pointed stars; on the main red area, the lettering "THE MARS FLAG" in yellow capitals set in a descending text line. António Martins, 14 Jun 2004

Right outside of Marciano Commons, near the ROTC headquarters, hangs an American flag. Right beneath it, billowing proudly in the breeze, is the Gadsden flag. If you are unfamiliar with it, the flag depicts a snake wrapped in a coil, with the words “Don’t Tread on Me” boldly printed on the bottom.

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The Gadsden Flag is one of the first flags of US and the original flag of the Marine Corps. It predates Old Glory. Dont Tread On Me was an against all odds rallying cry against British rule. It has recently been displayed proudly on the jerseys of US athletes, right over their hearts. It’s not a racist symbol. Are US Olympic athletes racist? Is Metallica racist? Nike? WWE? Rocky?! Comparing it to swastika is irresponsible. It’s not even remotely close. It is a symbol of patriotism and unfortunate that some (very few) have used it alongside racist thoughts but again it is not a symbol of racism anymore than a rainbow flag is a symbol of hate. You see more USA flags at Trump and far right extremist rallies than Gadsden Flags. Does that make the US Flag racist as well? You may have a point if it were a symbolism of the Civil War but it isn’t. It’s a symbol of the Revolutionary War. Perhaps you forgot exactly why there was a revolution in the first place because that’s where the flag has its roots.

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The recipient is awarded a memorial plaque and the prestigious Mars flag designed by Mr. Paine. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004, quoting from the NASA website

It bears mentioning that an object’s historical origins cannot contradict any modern interpretations or associations it has gathered. But due to the fact not many people are aware of this flag’s history and modern connotations, it is worth briefly going over.

Almost all Mars’ Flags I have seen have the symbol, indeed the most remarkable aspect of the design of the Mars Society flag is that it does not include it. Richard Knipel, 19 Jun 2004

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The flag is racist and that’s why its my favorite!!! who are you to take away my favorite thing!!! I’m a reptile furry and I love the don’t tread on me flag bc I would love to have sexual relations with a snake one day

Red stands for the current desert, green for a 2nd step planet with vegetation and blue for the fully terraformed blue planet Mars. Jorge Candeias, 11 Apr 2001

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Mediaeval alchemists were right linking the planet Mars and the metal iron: Mars derives its red color from iron oxide, basically rust, which also colors blood red, giving it the name of the war god. Richard Knipel, 19 Jun 2004

The rattlesnake has long been a symbol of American identity. One of its earliest iterations comes from Benjamin Franklin, who published an image of a snake cut in eight sections captioned “Join, or Die” in 1754. The snake represented the colonies, and the image is considered the first satirical cartoon in an American newspaper.

In more recent years, the Gadsden flag has cropped up at President Donald Trump and white supremacist rallies. If the two were on a Venn diagram, it would just be a circle. And in 2014, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission stated the display of the Gadsden flag in the workplace could be considered racial harassment.

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A Mars symbol on a flag these days would be ambiguous, given that biologists use it for "male", though I suppose sufficient exposure could change public perception of that. (These days one might even associate it with gay rights or something.) Albert Kirsch, 19 Jul 2004

Some people will still say this flag’s revolutionary origin is not racist. But it is important to look at the context — a rally of white people protesting the erosion of good ol’ American values, of the white nuclear family, of the invasion of the United States by immigrants choosing this specific flag to spread their message means something.

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During its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, the Space Shuttle Discovery carried a Martian flag into orbit for the first time. It was a red, green and blue tricolor, with the vertical red segment closest to the mast, followed by the green, and then the blue. Its form was originally suggested to Mars Society president Robert Zubrin by Mars Arctic Research Station task force leader Pascal Lee during their summer 1999 site selection expedition to Devon Island. The red, green and blue colors derive from stages of Mars’ transformation from barrenness to life depicted in the epic Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Red, green and blue are also the primary components of the spectrum, symbolizing unity in diversity, as well as light itself, and thus reason and enlightenment. The tricolor form also traditionally represents the republican values of liberty, equality and justice. The flag was sewn by Maggie Zubrin and brought aboard at the invitation of astronaut John Mace Grunsfeld. (Astronauts are allowed to manifest several items of special importance on Space Shuttle flights of an official nature.) Jim Burk, 06 Jan 2000, quoting from the Mars Society website Charmed by the flag’s undulations, I can imagine my overwrought meditation transcending its worries about the how, the when, and transforming into a much more visceral sort of euphoria, a happy glow tinted with the colors with which Mr. Robinson chose to paint the future. Richard Knipel, 17 Jul 2004, quoting from the Mars Society website Thomas O. Paine’s proposal image by Richard Knipel, 20 Jul 2004 This page has some information about a different Mars Flag given to recipients of the Thomas O. Paine Award for the Advancement of Human Exploration of Mars, given by another space advocacy group, the Planetary Society, presented to the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor teams in 1998. (Larger image here.) The symbolism is pretty clear: Mars points the way from Earth toward the stars. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004 The recipient is awarded a memorial plaque and the prestigious Mars flag designed by Mr. Paine. Richard Knipel, 18 Jul 2004, quoting from the NASA website The "circle + arrow pointing to the upper right" is the astronomical symbol for Mars. Marc Pasquin, 18 Jul 2004 Bergen County Technical High School project flag image by António Martins, 14 Jun 2004 At this website, Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro, US-NJ, plays voyage to Mars simulation. Included among other important requirements, a community flag for the habitat dwellers. On this on line photo (top left), it is shown in all of its splendour: Red ~2:5 flag with a row of 12 black 5-pointed stars pointing outwards at the bottom and top, black triangles blocking the hoist and fly edges, edged in the inside sides irregularly in yellow each with a column of four red 5-pointed stars; on the main red area, the lettering "THE MARS FLAG" in yellow capitals set in a descending text line. António Martins, 14 Jun 2004