Confederate flag

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did you know that Maryland was a slave state that sided with the North and got to keep institute of slavery one year longer than the southern states

Does anyone think MD is a nothern state in the real sense? It's below the Mason-Dixon line people!

Yes, real southerners consider Maryland to be a northern state.

+1 I'm a native of Virginia, and when I moved to Maryland some of my family started referring to me as a Yankee -- and this was in the 1980's!

I grew up seeing the Confederate flag on a regular basis; it was typically rough, 'redneck' people who would display it. The attitude was that the South 'would rise again' and wouldn't let the northern states tell them what to do and how to run things. Like many kids, I didn't think about the flag being racist, but rather a symbol of being proud to be from the South.

What would the south rise again to do? And what exactly do you think the north was telling the south to do?

[Anonymous]

"Don't tell the South what to do" seems telling of a massive inferiority complex on the part of the southerners who believe that...

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Anonymous wrote:The display of a Confederate flag for other than bona fide historical purposes constitutes a personal act of armed revolution against the United States, was treated as such for a number of years, and merits the most severe penalties.

But the revolution against the Brits was okay. Ugh. History is indeed written by winners

Get back to us when you actually win something.

Meanwhile, whether it was written by the winners or not, the fact is, slavery was a core issue of dispute that led to the war. Anyone writing otherwise isn't writing as "loser" - they are writing as an outright LIAR.

Who is this poster with constant 'we', 'us' etc. An asylum patient with split personality disorder?

Projecting your own delusions? You're the one who's out of touch with reality, living in some bizarre parallel universe where the South is righteous and vindicated and where secession and war to defend the practice of slavery was a good thing...

Huh? Are you off your meds or something?

Are you a little slow on the uptake or something?

The PP here talking about "pride in my colors" when referring to the Confederate Flag obviously thinks the South is righteous and obviously thinks secession and war and the deaths of 600,000 for no good reason other than to defend the states' rights to practice slavery was a good thing. Because that is what the war was about and that is what the Confederate Flag represents.

Oh so now defending the U.S. flag is defending nuclear holocost, because we bombed Hiroshima? Okey-dokey.

[Anonymous]

^ That's a really bad analogy, as the US flag represents a country which has existed for over 200 years, with a rich and diverse history - bombing Hiroshima is just a small part of that.

The Confederate Flag on the other hand is the flag of a country that only existed for four years, and which whas created and which existed primarily for the purposes of asserting states' rights to continue to practice and expand slavery, and which did so at the expense of over 600,000 lives.

[Anonymous]

Does the Don't tread on signal an intent to attack Brits?

Does the south Vietnamese flag in seven corners mean the people there want to overthrow Vietnam?

This is craziness. Flying the southern flag is not insurrection or a call to it.

The civil war was the bloodiest conflict in history and taking pride in that flag and the sacrifices made for it is about remembrance and pride.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the Don't tread on signal an intent to attack Brits?

Does the south Vietnamese flag in seven corners mean the people there want to overthrow Vietnam?

This is craziness. Flying the southern flag is not insurrection or a call to it.

The civil war was the bloodiest conflict in history and taking pride in that flag and the sacrifices made for it is about remembrance and pride.

Do you mean in American history?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does the Don't tread on signal an intent to attack Brits?

Does the south Vietnamese flag in seven corners mean the people there want to overthrow Vietnam?

This is craziness. Flying the southern flag is not insurrection or a call to it.

The civil war was the bloodiest conflict in history and taking pride in that flag and the sacrifices made for it is about remembrance and pride.

Do you mean in American history?

Of course I do- how could you imagine otherwise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the Don't tread on signal an intent to attack Brits?

Does the south Vietnamese flag in seven corners mean the people there want to overthrow Vietnam?

This is craziness. Flying the southern flag is not insurrection or a call to it.

The civil war was the bloodiest conflict in history and taking pride in that flag and the sacrifices made for it is about remembrance and pride.

What's there to remember or be proud of? The CSA only existed for FOUR YEARS (nobody alive today was ever a part of it) and it ended up a dismal failure, and it's creation and existence needlessly cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Such a monumental waste. And you are "proud" of that and want to remember it? Or are you just living some brain-addled fantasy?

[Anonymous]

"The South shall rise again..."

I think it already has. We've already been living under the reign of a Southern red-state-dominated Congress.

What's it gotten us? The most dysfunctional and unproductive Congress in our lifetimes. It's gotten us idiot Tea Party candidates who think the single most pressing danger facing America is gays who want to marry. It's gotten us retrograde flat-earthers who want to teach kids in science classrooms that 6,000 years ago Adam and Eve were riding around on dinosaurs.

The South has risen again - and it's turning us into a nation of complete morons.

[MikeL]

Anonymous wrote:"The South shall rise again..."

I think it already has. We've already been living under the reign of a Southern red-state-dominated Congress.

What's it gotten us? The most dysfunctional and unproductive Congress in our lifetimes. It's gotten us idiot Tea Party candidates who think the single most pressing danger facing America is gays who want to marry. It's gotten us retrograde flat-earthers who want to teach kids in science classrooms that 6,000 years ago Adam and Eve were riding around on dinosaurs.

The South has risen again - and it's turning us into a nation of complete morons.

Ha! Very true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ That's a really bad analogy, as the US flag represents a country which has existed for over 200 years, with a rich and diverse history - bombing Hiroshima is just a small part of that.

The Confederate Flag on the other hand is the flag of a country that only existed for four years, and which whas created and which existed primarily for the purposes of asserting states' rights to continue to practice and expand slavery, and which did so at the expense of over 600,000 lives.

The flag represents the region of the country that has only existed for 200 years. There is nothing wrong with the analogy, and you don't have to like it to admit it.

There are dark days in the history of every country and every region. Even if Hiroshima is just a small part of it, the disappearance of close to 90% of this continent's indigenous population is not. 'Rich and diverse' history is rarely pretty, if you look beyong the highschool book.

[Anonymous]

^ There's a difference in that slavery and the Civil War and extreme hostility and violence toward fellow Americans represents 100% of the span of history of the CSA whereas our war with Japan only represents 1.7% of US history.

And also, let's not forget that Japan was the belligerent that attacked the US first, just as the CSA was also the belligerent that attacked the US first, at Fort Sumter.