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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The design predated the confederacy.

in 1861 confeds adopted it.

Some time after the civil war (1910?  1930?) everyone forgot it had confed connotations.

This is totally unlike say, statues of Lee.  Were there statues of Lee before the civil war? No.  Has anyone forgotten that they are about the Civil War?  No.  [/quote]

Swastikas predated the Nazis, and they co-opted them. So therefore we should all start flying swastika flags because they predated them?

No.

Get another flag. Get another state sing while they're at it. Maryland my Maryland is racist AF.  And the national anthem needs to go too because F S Key was a slavery advocate. [/quote]

A. Swastikas in the other direction are still used by Buddists.   IE the people who used it before it was coopted.  
B.  The Nazi swastika was the flag of a party and nation that murdered millions.  The Md flag was the flag of a state that remained nominally loyal to the union during the civil war, though failing to provide many union troops, and not abolishing slavery till l late in the war. It  may have been later used by Confederate sympathizers, but it was not a symbol of the Confederacy while it actually existed.
C.  The song lyrics are so absurd as to be funny, actually.   
D.  We judge songs by their content, not their authors, the song is not a monument to Key (not sure why you didnt mention the Key Bridge?  Perhaps you don't live here?)
E. I suspect you are actually a confed monument defender trying to troll. [/quote]

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