I fully support letting individuals display the Confederate flag

[RoryN]

It's free speech.

But, more importantly, it allows anyone at a glance to recognize a fool. And there's a lot of value in that.

So, to that girl protesting at her school: buena suerte!

 

[Le Jacquelope]

I love watching the vanquished fly their vanquished flag.

 

[warrior queen]

you would not believe how many rebel flags fly here in australia!
they're everywhere!

dumb.

 

[RoryN]

you would not believe how many rebel flags fly here in australia!

That's because they're too chickenshit to fly it here.

Part of the reason their ancestors lost the war.

 

[warrior queen]

That's because they're too chickenshit to fly it here.

Part of the reason their ancestors lost the war.

clarification: it's australians who are flying the flags.

my mistake

 

[Mr. Show]

What I find interesting is the same people saying that Americans should only speak english - only have one language, are the same ones wanting to ensure their right to fly a different flag.

 

[Purple Haze]

It's the badge of bufoonery.

Hello, Jethro Bodean...

 

[Moxon4]

That's because they're too chickenshit to fly it here.

Part of the reason their ancestors lost the war.

The Confederate Flag that is seen is actually the Battleflag, the real flag was totally different.

I think it's good to remember history, especially the history of a war that was totally distorted by propagandists afterward (especially since Lincoln jailed anyone who wrote differently) It means different things to different people, and to the uneducated, they think it stands for slavery

 

[KRCummings]

We see a lot of them here and I'll never understand why. We're in the north!
And why would anyone display the flag? What are they trying to say?

 

[Purple Haze]

It means different things to different people, and to the uneducated, they think it stands for slavery

It actually stands for World Peace...

 

[RoryN]

clarification: it's australians who are flying the flags.

my mistake

Ah, gotcha.

What I find interesting is the same people saying that Americans should only speak english - only have one language, are the same ones wanting to ensure their right to fly a different flag.

Well said. I really like this.

 

[Moxon4]

It actually stands for World Peace...

It stands for state's rights and the doctrine of interposition, and by voluntary union, not one done by the end of a bayonet

 

[KRCummings]

The Confederate Flag that is seen is actually the Battleflag, the real flag was totally different.

I think it's good to remember history, especially the history of a war that was totally distorted by propagandists afterward (especially since Lincoln jailed anyone who wrote differently) It means different things to different people, and to the uneducated, they think it stands for slavery

It's not totally different. The Southern Cross features prominently in the second and third versions of the confederate flag. Only the first didn't have it and that one didn't last long.

 

[Cade Is Here]

rory that is totally different than what you posted on stormfront

 

[KRCummings]

It stands for state's rights and the doctrine of interposition, and by voluntary union, not one done by the end of a bayonet

Actually it's the cross of St. Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland. I don't believe he stood for any of the things you mentioned.

 

[Purple Haze]

It stands for state's rights and the doctrine of interposition, and by voluntary union, not one done by the end of a bayonet

It's actually an enemy flag of the United States, but I don't think the people that display it are able to grasp that notion, so it's harmless...

 

[RoryN]

It stands for state's rights and the doctrine of interposition, and by voluntary union, not one done by the end of a bayonet

That's a little too involved for a symbol.

I doubt a majority of the people I see waving it even know what "interposition" means.

 

[Ms_Veronica]

It stands for state's rights and the doctrine of interposition, and by voluntary union, not one done by the end of a bayonet

That may be what the flag stood for at the time of the Civil War, but the flag gained popularity as a backlash to the Civil Rights Movement. More Southerners started waving that flag in the 1960s than before. That is why it's associated with racism, bigotry, and segregation.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

especially since Lincoln jailed anyone who wrote differently

Proof?

 

[Guest]

 

[Cade Is Here]

So is the general lee racist then?

 

[Purple Haze]

Remember that guy in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie, the dude that had his arms and legs chopped off one by one and kept insisting he wasn't defeated yet?

There's your Confederate flag...

 

[Mercury_Maniac]

Dukes of Hazzard anyone?

 

[Mercury_Maniac]

Remember that guy in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie, the dude that had his arms and legs chopped off one by one and kept insisting he wasn't defeated yet?

There's your Confederate flag...

wasn't that the Black Knight?

 

[Ms_Veronica]

Don't mar the Monty Python and the Holy Grail like that!