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if you fly it i just assume youre an inbred retard but its a free country so people should just silently judge and move on. Neither side gives a shit what the other thinks so its an exercise in wasted time.
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I am not offended by it at all, every time I see one I chuckle and wonder why they are not flying the true flag of the South, the white flag of surrender.
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The same people who jumped on the Confederate flag are now saying you can’t fly the police blue line flags…I long ago gave up giving a f what they think…
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I am from the South, love the South, and wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Yet I still think the Confederate flag is corny and dumb.
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I didn't read the four pages.
I was born and raised in Texas. As a kid and well into high school in the late 70s, the Stars & Bars were fairly common, usually as vanity plates, stickers, or flying in someone's yard. I always thought "Southern pride" when I saw it, never "bring back slavery." Now, TBH, I only ever see it flying over junked-up trailer houses. The kind of doors you or I, let alone a black person, would likely never darken. I think it's sad that so many symbols are being cancelled because someone is offended by history. I have a picture somewhere, of me in my room at Texas A&M, in my corps uniform. Hanging on the wall behind me is the confederate battle flag. I was the subject of the pic, the flag was just typical college dorm room decoration. Yes, I still have the flag, safely tucked away in my safe. Just because. |
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Family fought almost entirely for the Confederacy. Part of history, like or hate it. Destroying it does not change the past. BTW none of family owned slaves but fought for their homeland regardless.
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Quoted: if you fly it i just assume youre an inbred retard but its a free country so people should just silently judge and move on. Neither side gives a shit what the other thinks so its an exercise in wasted time. View Quote Don’t PA and NY have the highest number of inbreds? Which Muslim flag will become the Minnesota state flag? |
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Quoted: ive seen my fair share of the flags in MN, hard to think it represents southern pride when we’re this far north. Im sure they get the reaction theyre looking for though. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The north is full of racists ive seen my fair share of the flags in MN, hard to think it represents southern pride when we’re this far north. Im sure they get the reaction theyre looking for though. I wasn't talking about those flying the flag. |
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Never even thought about. Sometimes I see it here ziptied on a truck in New Hampshire or Maine. I think here they use it to say fuck you to the current goverment authority .
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I was stationed with a kid who was born and raised in Kenosha Wi. He had that shit tattooed on his forearm.
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On a cross country trip, I stopped at a roadside produce stand in rural Va, to get back on the hwy, I drive through an older neighborhood and saw a few houses with the flags. One fella waved as I drove by.
I don’t get all worked up over such things. |
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It has never bothered me and never will. I like the Confederate flag.
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Quoted: For reference, I lived in GA for nearly a decade. If I see it down south, I think nothing of it. I saw enough black folk with it on their porch or Black Sons of the Confederacy doing demonstrations with it to know there is zero association to color for many. If I see it up north, like here in PA, I assume you're white trash and moved here from NJ or NY. View Quote A few years ago we had super white trash flying one on main street in my town in upstate NY. He was a hair head and his girl mowed the lawn in a bikini. The town went and had a talk with them about taking it down as the tourists from down state found it offensive and the town relies on tourism from down state. He took it down. |
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Quoted: I understand that after the American Civil War that the victors allowed the defeated to retain this stuff as a peace offering so we all could just get along, be brothers, etc. This is kind of a rarity in war as the norm is to round up all the defeated, imprison some and execute the officers for war crimes. Then burn/destroy any flags, symbols etc of the defeated side as message that it’s over, you lost. Victor’s justice as it’s often referred to. Perhaps it was a mistake the Union was so lenient on the Confederates as we then wouldn’t be having this debate now. View Quote I swear some people are ... "Lenient." Good grief. Go read the history of the era including reconstruction from the original sources. If you don't have the time to do that, than at the least, don't buy the narrative pushed by the side politically invested in downplaying it and *destroying federalism* https://discerninghistory.com/2015/11/the-politics-and-economics-of-reconstruction/ That stupid war is when the centralizing totalitarian side screwed the nation in the name of ... centralizing things, and a abjectly stupid idea of "union" (they believed such idiot things as the american union existing before we pulled out ofthe british empire). The ending of slavery was the only good thing to come from that war. |
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My high school mascot was Johnny Reb. It's never meant anything to me other than I'm from the south.
People seem to ignore that the last slaves to be freed were in the north. |
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Quoted: Ironic, the south fought (for the state's rights) to keep their slaves. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The north is full of racists Ironic, the south fought (for the state's rights) to keep their slaves. That's no different than PMSNBC saying that american troops only ever fight for american empire. Who cares why the troops fight or their immediate leaders do; nope, only the people who can be represented as wrong count for the "why." Oddly it still surprises me when people do this patently leftist/liberal stuff. Short little book by ... a frankly pro-centralizer author, macpherson where he bothered to go read the private letters of the people involved to see why they fought, and hint: it wasn't the leftist talking points. Or you can stay stuck on ignorance. |
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Quoted: Go to Denton NC and see them by the dozens ! It's a battle flag. I would fly one but i don't want the problems it might cause. View Quote Hendersonville, NC, 15 miles south of Asheville as well. Confederate and Gadsden flags on poles in the stake bed mounts of pickups are everywhere. Pretty funny watching the tourists snapping pictures to show their friends back home. |
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Quoted: Ironic, the south fought (for the state's rights) to keep their slaves. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The north is full of racists Ironic, the south fought (for the state's rights) to keep their slaves. LoL If the north fought to end slavery, why were they the last to give up their slaves? |
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Pride.
Some of my ancestors fought under both it and the Gadsden Flag. |
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History and heritage. Pride in my ancestors had the guts to stand for their beliefs against overbearing federal govt.
Bunch of jackass kkk klowns taking it for their Jim Crow bull shit. Slavery was a fast dying concept in the agricultural South by then. |
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While in Tennesee I observed a late teens/early 20s kid with a t-shirt that had "The south will rise again" in big bold letters over imprinted stars and bars. He had on a confederate cap, blonde mullet, and the giant 80s shield style sunglasses. He seemed like your good ol' boy, and was just hanging out outside the gas station with friends. Figured it was normal for that area and didn't judge. Every region has its norms.
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History...America was born out of rebellion against tyrannical government...there was a lot more to it than just slavery...
but that part seems to have been glossed over historically...imo |
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I don't care but I will say the majority of the time I see it white trash are involved.
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Quoted: Quoted: if you fly it i just assume youre an inbred retard but its a free country so people should just silently judge and move on. Neither side gives a shit what the other thinks so its an exercise in wasted time. The north is full of racists I know right... Mn though filled their state up with Somalis though...so they are pretty progressive. |
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Doesn't bother me a bit. It is a part of American history and should be treated with the respect due that the people who proudly fly it have for it. Of course, I have a job that occupies my time and pays my bills. I am an adult and not some over sensitive pussy who gets offended by a flag, or words, or being called the scientifically correct gender...
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The more I learn about the civil war and Lincoln the more I realize the wrong side won.
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Quoted: if you fly it i just assume youre an inbred retard but its a free country so people should just silently judge and move on. Neither side gives a shit what the other thinks so its an exercise in wasted time. View Quote Yet you can't silently judge because you felt the need to call people inbred retards . |
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Quoted: I am not offended by it at all, every time I see one I chuckle and wonder why they are not flying the true flag of the South, the white flag of surrender. View Quote Attached File @jagdkommando |
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I've lived in NC all my life, and grew up in a rural area. For years I believed in the "heritage not hate" philosophy. Where you're a proud southerner, but you still want equitable treatment of all people.
Then I saw a post on Twitter that changed my view. A girl posted an analogy... How would it look if an American with German ancestry flew the Nazi flag and defended it by saying: "It's my heritage?" I know, CSA/Nazi German isn't Apples to Apples, but you get the point. I don't display the CSA flag anymore. |
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Quoted: Lots of people seem offended and want it torn down. I’m not from the south originally but when I do see it I’m not offended at all. I know young Americans died on both sides. I don’t think it should be erased from history or banned. Call me a racist,I don’t care. Woketards think they can just erase history. View Quote Doesn't bother me one bit. A neighbor down the road from our vacation cabin flies the stars and bars and he waves just the same as anyone else. |
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It doesn't bother me. I was born and raised in the deep south and I've seen it my whole life.
I served under the American flag and I've never flown or owned a confederate flag. |
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