The Stars and Stripes is the flag of the United States.
The Confederate Flag is not.
Somehow you guys think the two flags are on equal footing.
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The Stars and Stripes is the flag of the United States.
The Confederate Flag is not.
Somehow you guys think the two flags are on equal footing.
musterion
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State's right to fly it if they want. If a sitting admin pulls down the flag, another could be elected that will put it right back up, because that's what a majority of the people wanted.
You'd have a problem with that, of course. You're all for people having rights when they agree with you. Because you're a leftist.
That's because it has no other meaning.
It's a flag that symbolizes racial hatred.
musterion
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You're not as sly as you think.
Because of liberal pant-wetters like you, we're talking here about what flags are perceived and felt to represent, not what they actually are. So in this discussion, they are on equal footing.
musterion
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Do any documents from the Confederacy's adopting that flag note that they intended it to represent slavery and hatred? Or is that your retrofitting it according to your leftism?
Primary source evidence. Show it or shut up.
Yes, we all know that.
We all know that also.
No, Republican Governor Nikki Haley and Republican Senators Graham and Scott are going about getting the flag removed the correct way.
It's going to require a two-thirds vote by the State Legislators to take the flag down.
Again, it has plenty of meaning other than race for a great many southern people. To them it just signifies southern pride, period.
You are aware aren't you that the vast majority of southerners had no slaves, right?
You show your racism because you allow for nothing else.
We can look at the flag from both angles.
It's literally a flag that represented states that broke the law and tried to succeed from the Union, and failed miserably at it.
Symbolically, it represents racial hatred.
Either way, the Confederate Flag loses.
Daniel1611
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Actually, the Confederate flag represents the Confederacy. Literally. If you add connotations to it, that's your prerogative but the Confederate created a flag to represent their new country, a d that's what it represents.
musterion
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That's like saying the swastika symbolized the German's pride of the Fatherland.
musterion
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Truth, but a leftist like Tet can't allow for that. The flag must be injected with racial feelings for it to be a useful tool to divide people.
The Constitution.
The SCOTUS verified it.
Don't make me laugh.
Nothing symbolizes racial harmony like a Confederate Flag.
Have you ever read what the guy who designed the Confederate Flag had to say about the flag?
musterion
Well-known member
Citation.
Yep, black South Carolinians have been marching on the capitol every day for years, demanding that flag be taken down.
You know, to many that flag reminds them of how far we as a nation have come away from that past. It's people like you that keep throwing it up in everyone's face as if it's still going on. Like Morgan Freeman said, just quit talking about it. Let it heal. But that's not your interest here.
musterion
Well-known member
I already asked you about that. You said nothing.
These guys are acting as though either the Confederates didn't really mean what they said...or they're outright ignoring what the Confederates said in the first place. For people who profess such "pride" (in what, exactly?) that's a peculiar turn of events.
One more time, do you celebrate Christmas? Accept any holiday pay for it, etc...
Daniel1611
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So you do realize that the American flag and Constitution were created by people, many of whom owned Slaves and didn't believe black people were people. In fact, the constitution specifically protected slavery for a certain number of years. I suppose we should get rid of the Constitution as well...
Which is fine and dandy, but ignoring justice in favor of using the murder of nine people to advance this cause is the height of hypocrisy.
Comparing murder to justice shows how truly idiotic you are. Terrorists should be executed, not held up as an example of justice. Are you being especially stupid today, or have you been smoking crack?
Nope. Terrorists should be executed, remember?
Yeah, no kidding. This thread is about the murder of nine people and things that might help reduce crime. I'm talking about justice; you want the issue to be about a false flag.
You're part of the problem.
That's right. Enacting justice and allowing liberty is the answer. :thumb: