Confederate flag

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Confederate flag represents white people with poor dental hygiene and less that a high school diploma who have cars on blocks in their front yard and old upholstered chairs on their front porches.

Keep it up with your nasty name calling and prejudice. I love my history, I love my flag and I love myself enough that I don't need or want to put others down the way that you are doing... It is beneath you.

Go ahead and fly your flag. Let us know how it works out.

[Anonymous]

There is a huge confederate flag on I95, just outside Fredericksburg. I don't know if it's on private or public land, but iyou definitely can see it coming and going on the interstate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Confederate flag represents white people with poor dental hygiene and less that a high school diploma who have cars on blocks in their front yard and old upholstered chairs on their front porches.

Keep it up with your nasty name calling and prejudice. I love my history, I love my flag and I love myself enough that I don't need or want to put others down the way that you are doing... It is beneath you.

PP wasn't name calling at all and clearly in your case everything she said was true. You have nothing else in your life so you cling to the sad, defeated, racist flag - 'cause, hey, you're white and that is all that really matters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd fly a Confederate flag day and night if it would keep a liberal away from my house.

Just tell a liberal your double digit IQ - that will keep them away.

you are going to confuse them. They think a double digit iQ is good and 100 is a perfect score.

lol

Best post of the day!!!

[Anonymous]

Racist need a calling card.

Glad they have one. It is getting harder to recognize increasingly closeted racists.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.

I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.

Well it wouldn't bother me if you did though perhaps I live in a free state of mind, and others would castigate you for flying th colors of a "foreign power."

You're not my master and you'll never take my colors from me.

What a strange reversal of fortune for you.

It's not about slavery for me that's the whole point- you are the one with the fantasy that southern whites want to enslave blacks. If that makes you feel good about yourself (at my expense), so be it. There's no irony, no reversal of fortune. I am deeply proud of my heritage, I walk standing tall and you cannot I take that or my colors away from me.

Could you please explain what that heritage means to you and how you compartmentalize those aspects of the heritage from the slave-holding, secession, rebellion and post-vellum racist activities all associated with that flag?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.

I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.

Many people do. You must be disappointed that not everybody is like you

I don't see the flag as racist. It's a flag for crying out loud. It represents the region that is culturally different from other regions withing the country. Nobody flips out when they see state flags.

I can sort of excuse black people's perspective on this. On the other hand, everything is racist for the black folks nowadays; sane people just shrug at the claim.

I do see the Confederate Flag as racist and so does every skin head in the country. It is also a Losers flag which actually makes me embarrassed for the people who display it. You lost the war that you started and yet you fly the flag to remind everyone that you are a loser?

So why legitimize a hate group that took on a symbol as their own by adopting their interpretation? It's original meaning was to represent states' rights. But I'm sure you are aware of this, no?

Nonsense. The svastika had many different meanings in many different religions before the Nazi's took it as their symbol. It is NOW a representation of hatred and murder. The original meaning makes no difference. Same with the confederate flag.

And it is terrifying to think this fact is something you are not aware of.

From a historical standpoint, it makes a huge difference. If you teach kids the history of the Confederate flag and the Nazi svastika, teach it right.

Yep. So in the case of the swastika you tell them, "This symbol was used by (these groups) and (these religions) but then it was used by the Nazis and became so associated with them that any use now is considered supporting Nazi philosophy. Now, let's look at the original symbology of the Cross of St. Andrews. It was named for (x) and was carried by Confederates in the following battles (1,2,3...) but is now primarily associated with racism and hate-groups. "

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Confederate flag represents white people with poor dental hygiene and less that a high school diploma who have cars on blocks in their front yard and old upholstered chairs on their front porches.

Keep it up with your nasty name calling and prejudice. I love my history, I love my flag and I love myself enough that I don't need or want to put others down the way that you are doing... It is beneath you.

Not being snarky in any way- can you explain what it is about your history and flag that you love so much? Maybe that will help us understand.

[Anonymous]

Dear Confederate flag lovers: If your flag really just represents the South and southern heritage, then why don't you see it flown by black Americans, most of whom have southern roots?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^ The fact that they are no longer enslaved today does not wipe historical fact clean.

The confederate flag was born a bastard, it was born directly from being on the wrong side of the fight over the right of states to keep people enslaved, and the confederacy fell without ever reversing or redeeming itself, so it remains forever a bastard in history.

Posters like this baffle me. It is the one and the same country we are talking about. I somehow think it's really fucked up to self-loath like this. The country I chose to leave behind has much more peculiar history and present; even I don't hate it as much

The PC way American History is taught in U.S. public schools does not do anybody any service.

Aren't you forgetting the fact that the South seceded and thereby left the United States, effectively making the CSA a foreign country? Supporters of the CSA were and still are supporting a country that was foreign and hostile to the United States.

[Anonymous]

Whether or not you like it, the flag is a part of the history of the land. Just because you do not like it, does not mean people should be in denial about it.
I still think the secession was legal, after all, the union was a new concept. Racist north wrote history to make themselves appear morally superior.

[Anonymous]

Display of the flag is never appropriate. It is chilling and grotesque.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.

I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.

Many people do. You must be disappointed that not everybody is like you

I don't see the flag as racist. It's a flag for crying out loud. It represents the region that is culturally different from other regions withing the country. Nobody flips out when they see state flags.

I can sort of excuse black people's perspective on this. On the other hand, everything is racist for the black folks nowadays; sane people just shrug at the claim.

I do see the Confederate Flag as racist and so does every skin head in the country. It is also a Losers flag which actually makes me embarrassed for the people who display it. You lost the war that you started and yet you fly the flag to remind everyone that you are a loser?

So why legitimize a hate group that took on a symbol as their own by adopting their interpretation? It's original meaning was to represent states' rights. But I'm sure you are aware of this, no?

Nonsense. The svastika had many different meanings in many different religions before the Nazi's took it as their symbol. It is NOW a representation of hatred and murder. The original meaning makes no difference. Same with the confederate flag.

And it is terrifying to think this fact is something you are not aware of.

From a historical standpoint, it makes a huge difference. If you teach kids the history of the Confederate flag and the Nazi svastika, teach it right.

Yep. So in the case of the swastika you tell them, "This symbol was used by (these groups) and (these religions) but then it was used by the Nazis and became so associated with them that any use now is considered supporting Nazi philosophy. Now, let's look at the original symbology of the Cross of St. Andrews. It was named for (x) and was carried by Confederates in the following battles (1,2,3...) but is now primarily associated with racism and hate-groups. "

Actually, the KKK uses the stars and stripes much more:

http://www.rulen.com/kkk/

Here's a listing of other flags used. Note the Confederate flag is always defaced:

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us%7Dkkk.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whether or not you like it, the flag is a part of the history of the land. Just because you do not like it, does not mean people should be in denial about it.
I still think the secession was legal, after all, the union was a new concept. Racist north wrote history to make themselves appear morally superior.

It is a part of the SAD history of our country same as the Nazi flag is part of Germany's sad history. For God's sake - stop flaunting one of our most vile chapters in American history! MOVE ON!!!

[Anonymous]

To me, the claim that the flag is flown for "heritage" or "history" is clearly a lie- if that were true, wouldn't those supporting this "history" fly one of the actual CSA flags?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America


Why do they fly the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia?