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You don't control the way others interpret symbols.....   We would all be well served to remember this.[/quote]

That cuts both ways, which is why most thinking people don't buy into the "heritage not hate" crap that apologists keep putting out there, because thinking people are acutely aware that the only major historical events associated with the Confederate flag are the bloody and awful Civil War which cost so many lives, which was indeed about slavery, after which the Confederate flag was largely abandoned and laid dormant for decades, only to be resurrected in connection with the KKK in the early 1900s, and making a strong resurgence in protest to desegregation and the Civil Rights movement.  Sadly those are things that have not been correctly, completely or accurately taught in many southern States, leaving some to believe the revisionist version and deny those associations.[/quote]

It does cut both ways!!!  I am pro flag.  I mean precisely that- your description of the flags meaning differs greatly from mine.  If you understand that my flying the flag is not about segregation (for me!) then you'll understand my position better, just as I should open my mind to yours.

That approach does not necessarily lead to agreement, but at least acknowledges that there are real people with differing views.[/quote]

By this standard, any Muslim could fly the flag of ISIS, because it's just a bunch of words which proclaim faith in Allah and a belief that Mohammed is a prophet.  What is the harm in that?[/quote]

It is impossible to argue with you since you are so deeply versed in southern history -- actually you think you know so much that you don't....   Simply look in google images for confederate reunion and you'll find picture after picture of the stars and bars from the years after the war....  Do you think the veterans kids and grandkids attended these?  You make dogmatic class statements that the flag was hidden until the segregation debates - simply not true.  
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Yes, the flag was brought out for certain occasions such as gatherings of former confederates, and nobody said otherwise - but it was *not* flown above statehouses and was *not* part of state flags until much more recently.

But it's also quite noteworthy that General Robert E. Lee himself said quite clearly that the Confederate flag SHOULD NOT EVER BE FLOWN AGAIN.  And it is indisputable that he, as the commanding general of the CSA knew A LOT MORE about the flag, it's history, it's heritage, and what it stood for than YOU or anyone else who is a proponent of the flag ever did or ever will.

People who want to tout its heritage and history and who want to insist on flying it look quite foolish, and uneducated and clueless on history in light of Robert E. Lee's perspectives on it.[/quote]

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