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		zajio1am on Dec 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initi... > During "Independence Days" his dad had to put a flag up in his store window. It wasn't optional. If he didn't do it, the police would stop by and ask why he didn't have a flag in his window. That seems like the greengrocer from V. Havel's essay 'The Power of the Powerless': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless

bentley on Dec 20, 2022 | [–]

Václav Havel is really an incredible figure. From a political dissident repeatedly imprisoned for his writings and advocacy, to first President of Czechoslovakia after the fall of communism and the country’s first free elections.

refurb on Dec 21, 2022 | [–]

That would be it! I got the story slightly wrong, but that's the one I thinking of.

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