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I suspect a large majority of people who love it or are offended by it, know very little about the actual history of it.
I'm glad it's coming off govt. property. It's an embarrassment. It's a supremecist symbol. I've lived in the South before (not like Texas south, but hill billy central south) and out of the many dip s that I got to know (through work mainly) who displayed the flag, all of them--every single one--were racist. There wasn't a non-white supremacist that I ever saw that displayed it for some bull historical or heritage reason. It's only the symbol for white trash red necks and is a disgrace to have it displayed on govt. property.
I suspect a large majority of people who love it or are offended by it, know very little about the actual history of it.
probably, America, esp Confederate and red state America, is low-info, ignorant.
^ Exhibit A.
They should be sent to reeducation camps.
Probably.
Maybe it's a symbol that has a dignifiable origin. What it's turned into is something else.
whatever the origin, there's no maybe what is has sybolized in the last 70 or so years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_...2.80.931863.29
The rebel flag was largely forgotten after the Civil War, until the post WWII era, esp after Brown v Board of Education, when it became the flag of racism, white supremacy, segregation, rebelling, again, against the Union. It went up on the SC state capitol in 1961.
Send the Jews as well, let them learn the history of the swastika.
Tell em is just an old Chinese symbol. Or it's other origins could be emphasized.
I sure the Jews will like the camp thing.
But the overall point of who is offended by what does get out of control. There is not some magic # or formula.
Yet you Northerners fought a bloody War to ensure they wouldn't leave
Go figure.......
There would be no USA without those "racist, ignorant Southerners"
When hits the fan in America, all the wealthy and 2nd Generation immigrants are getting the out of dodge. Hate them all you want but they love the USA more than you or any of your enlightened pals.
Is that Jay Z?
Steve "cantaloup calves" King doesn't disappoint
Rep. Steve King: 'Caucasian Christians' ended slavery; flag critics should stop being 'divisive'
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...8Daily+Kos%29#
No mention who of who started slavery?
Looks like this ignorant s had a lot in common with Dylan Roof. Someone with a Facebook should post these pictures to their pages.
ffs
Last edited by Infinite_limit; 07-11-2015 at 07:10 PM.
What do Liberals here think about burning and disrespecting the Mexican flag. After all their government also abused native people and allowed slavery.
flags are just fabrics.
Repugs invading Iraq for oil was horribly more disrespectful of USA and the military than mere symbolic flag burning.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-12-2015 at 07:10 AM.
Just like the Nazis, 1000s of Confederate traitors/America-haters fled to S. America
BRAZIL’S SECRET HISTORY OF SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
After the American Civil War, some 7,000 Confederates set sail for Brazil. Their Dixie-loving descendants represent one of the most curious cultures in the modern world
After the Civil War, Brazil had been as much a land of opportunity for American Southerners as the United States had been for Europeans.
Instead of stomaching life under Yankee rule, as many as 7,000 Confederates opted to set sail for Brazil, a country twice the size of the U.S. at the time, and a nation where slavery was still legal.
The Brazilian government, under the rule of Emperor Dom Pedro II, recruited the Confederates, taking out advertisements in U.S. newspapers and sending representatives to the American South to persuade proud Southerners to live out their dreams in Brazil.
Those who left the American South after the Civil War had the most to lose by staying. Among the Confederates who set sail for Brazilian shores were attorneys, architects, plantation owners, physicians and businessmen, all fine men from fine families, most of them landowners, educated at the best Southern ins utes of higher learning. They owned slaves, and by God, they were good to those slaves — "Don't go makin’ out hour ancestahs to be mean, not fer one secon’," Jim warned. "Day treated dehm slaves as though day was fam’ly."
http://narrative.ly/extra-time-in-brazil/brazils-secret-history-southern-hospitality/
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-12-2015 at 08:35 AM.
Just like Russians who fled after the Bolshevik take overJust like the Nazis, 1000s of Confederate traitors/America-haters fled to S. America
BRAZIL’S SECRET HISTORY OF SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
After the American Civil War, some 7,000 Confederates set sail for Brazil. Their Dixie-loving descendants represent one of the most curious cultures in the modern world
After the Civil War, Brazil had been as much a land of opportunity for American Southerners as the United States had been for Europeans.
Instead of stomaching life under Yankee rule, as many as 7,000 Confederates opted to set sail for Brazil, a country twice the size of the U.S. at the time, and a nation where slavery was still legal.
The Brazilian government, under the rule of Emperor Dom Pedro II, recruited the Confederates, taking out advertisements in U.S. newspapers and sending representatives to the American South to persuade proud Southerners to live out their dreams in Brazil.
Those who left the American South after the Civil War had the most to lose by staying. Among the Confederates who set sail for Brazilian shores were attorneys, architects, plantation owners, physicians and businessmen, all fine men from fine families, most of them landowners, educated at the best Southern ins utes of higher learning. They owned slaves, and by God, they were good to those slaves — "Don't go makin’ out hour ancestahs to be mean, not fer one secon’," Jim warned. "Day treated dehm slaves as though day was fam’ly."
http://narrative.ly/extra-time-in-brazil/brazils-secret-history-southern-hospitality/
This is a great question! As a liberal, I would oppose the Mexican flag being flown on U.S. Government buildings.
Guy got arrested for burning his neighbor gay flag. Too lazy to link
Damn, why are you such a xenophobe?
my flag boy said to your flag boy "I'm gonna set your flag on fire."
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