Ok. Finally have some time to post.
Friar Bijou wrote:
Were not talking about why the average soldier fought for the Confederacy. Were discussing the symbol of the Confederacy.
No, we're not. There were three different flags of the Confederacy, none of which are the flag in question.
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The "Stars and Bars" in any and all configurations. That was a symbol of the Confederacy whose whole existence is absolutely founded on the principle of keeping slavery as a going concern.
Except that it wasn't. Which is the point so many people seem to fail to grasp. So because a bunch of ignorant people oppose this flag because they incorrectly think it's the flag of the Confederacy, that makes it so, and legitimizes their demand that it be removed? Um... That makes zero sense.
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Regardless of whatever meaning you wish to append to it the slavery thing is not removable. The "some people are not fully human" is not removable. The "I am superior and you are inferior based purely on skin color" is not removable.
From something other than this flag. You're pointing at something on the left and condemning something on the right because of what you see there.
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Before you respond (gbaji) READ THE ENTIRE CONSTITUTION of the Confederacy and then get back to me.
The constitution of the Confederacy is irrelevant to the question of the meaning of this particular flag though. I've posted at length about what the flag means to those who fly it, but the answer seems to be that because people who don't fly it think it means something else, then that's what it means, and so it should be banned. Again, that makes no sense at all. This is about people spending way too much time and effort looking around for things to be offended about. Gee. Having a hard time finding actual examples of blatant racial discrimination, so what to do? I know! Let's find something that some people might think might lead people to being racist and attack that! Brilliant. We don't need to actually do something like, I don't know, determine if this is true or anything. We'll just get enough dumb people to be outraged about it, and it wont matter.
Do you guys really like living in a world where mob rule is the rule? Because that's what you're doing here.