"Its not racism its history" yeah, a history of racism.
"It was about states rights!" Yeah, the state's rights to own slaves.
"It's a part of our past" yeah, part of our past of being absolute monsters.
"I am still proud of my heritage" I guess you need to have your ass beat into the ground AGAIN, then.
Saving this comment because they are the perfect response to those ignorant excuses.
"I am still proud of my heritage."
Your "heritage" lasted less than five years.
Your heritage is being a traitor and enemy of the US. So I guess you can't go around yelling 'MURICA anymore.
What I find particularly interesting is that the Confederacy only existed for 4 years, meaning to run around with an Obama flag would more historically relevant than this shit.
I also like how people do it in Northern states. I live in Indiana and I see the Stars and Bars all the time. Sometimes with the Indiana state flag. The fools don't even know what side we were on.
It's all over in WV. The state that seceded from the Confederacy. And then when confronted they say it's their heritage.
Mother fucker, what heritage?
Racism. that's it. 'Heritage' is code for racism and 'family values' is code for heterosexism
They're proud of more things than just racism. Like poverty
Dude, they have people flying them in Canada. I don't think there's much common sense in the folks who publicly display it.
Bruh ive seen this shit in CANADA!!!!! like my guy, we beat them well before the damn civil war, we were event THERE!!!!
Some idiots even use it in Europe and Australia,
I've been in fucking college longer than a whole ass country existed LMAO
What I find particularly interesting is that the Confederacy only existed for 4 years, meaning to run around with an Obama flag would more historically relevant than this shit.
“Historically relevant” or “historically significant” is really tricky thing to judge sometimes. While Obama’s 2 terms as president meant he was in charge for 8 years vs the Confederacy’s 4, I believe the Confederacy and the US Civil War they caused was more historically relevant than Obama’s 8 years as president.
There’s a whole lot of nasty from the war and immediate fall out we’re seeing feeling today.
There’s a reason the same people that fly the confederate flag fly a Trump flag. They like things that last a few years and lose
What did they lose, really? Besides a war, their generals, their free labor, and the value of their money?
Pride flag, If your family tree is a circle.
Evolutionary cul-de-sac.
30 people are sore loosers 🤣
When the South rises again, maybe we should just let them secede.
They can secede, just leave the land behind when they do so. Enjoy the international waters.
Even the reddest counties in the reddest states vote 10% blue. Most red states have strong pockets of blue in cities. (Nashville, Charleston, pretty much all of south Florida). Many southern states are purple or even blue! Georgia has two blue senators and a governor! Virginia has two blue senators and a red governor. North Carolina is up there too.
I'm very afraid for those people if the fascist lunatics get more control. I know you are sort of joking that we can't just abandon them to that fate.
Also selfishly: do we really want the Christian Taliban to create an Afghanistan with y'all Quida next door to us? That wouldn't end well.
It wasn't even used as the actual flag of the Confederacy. This version of the flag is the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, which has sort of just come to represent the whole Confederacy now. The actual flag that was used by the Confederacy actually had quite a bit more white on it, which in the eyes of some at the time understood it to represent the "White race" (from Wikipedia):
On April 23, 1863, the Savannah Morning News editor William Tappan Thompson, with assistance from William Ross Postell, a Confederate blockade runner, published an editorial championing a design featuring the battle flag on a white background he referred to later as "The White Man's Flag," a name which never caught on. In explaining the white background of his design, Thompson wrote, "As a people, we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause."
Their flag actually went through three versions between 1861–1865 (each with multiple variations), so they really didn't have their shit together over the course of those 4 years even.
Shout-out to Vexillologycirclejerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz as this post would be quite suited for their flag shit posting.
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