confederate flag?

[Catatonic]

To be a nation, doesn't at least one other nation have to recognize you as a nation? Not one country recognized the pretend CSA as a legitimate country, let alone recognizing South Carolina as a country.

NO, but to your point, the US National government declared that any country that recognized the Confederacy would be at war with the US. Most countries, to avoid war, granted the Confederacy "belligerent status" which allowed trade and support for the Confederacy without official recognition.

 

[MAKAVELI]

Really?
Anyone who says the flag represents anything but hate are labeled backward thinking hillbilly rednecks.
Should the swastika be banned because hate groups use it?

Should it be flown over a state capital?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Pa

Pardon me, but I have said nothing of swastikas or hillbillies. What I have said is that the flag represents a defeated enemy of the United States and that it has picked up a reputation for representing racial bigotry. I didn't assign those attributes. History did.

I get ticked off that the government can't display the Ten commandments but they can display the rebel flag.

Merry Christmas.

 

[Turdferguson]

Pa

Pardon me, but I have said nothing of swastikas or hillbillies. What I have said is that the flag represents a defeated enemy of the United States and that it has picked up a reputation for representing racial bigotry. I didn't assign those attributes. History did.

I brought up swastikas because that too has "picked up a reputation " of bigotry and hatered. If you have ever been to a person from India's house some have swastikas on the step of their door. Not for hate but because it represents good luck and fortune to them.
Same symbol two different meanings.
Why then is it so inconceivable that the Confederate flag can have two separate meanings. Does one have more merit than the other? Who decides that.

 

[MrFedEx]

Pa

Pardon me, but I have said nothing of swastikas or hillbillies. What I have said is that the flag represents a defeated enemy of the United States and that it has picked up a reputation for representing racial bigotry. I didn't assign those attributes. History did.

I devoted today to listening to Right Wing radio between stops. Even Michael Medved thought the Confederate flag should come down. Whenever I see a Confederate flag I immediately think "redneck", but I don't live in the South. It's a symbol of defiant ignorance to most people, and if you're Southern and proud to be ignorant, keep right on flying it with pride.

The South, where cousins marry and produce new generations of genius kids who have the IQ of a radish, or Rick Perry. Your choice.

 

[Turdferguson]

Should it be flown over a state capital?

If the majority of the people in that state say it should. Then yeah.
I don't live there so what they choose to do is none of my business

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

If the majority of the people in that state say it should. Then yeah.
I don't live there so what they choose to do is none of my business

It wasn't a problem until this shooting happened... Just saying

 

[Turdferguson]

I devoted today to listening to Right Wing radio between stops. Even Michael Medved thought the Confederate flag should come down. Whenever I see a Confederate flag I immediately think "redneck", but I don't live in the South. It's a symbol of defiant ignorance to most people, and if you're Southern and proud to be ignorant, keep right on flying it with pride.

The South, where cousins marry and produce new generations of genius kids who have the IQ of a radish, or Rick Perry. Your choice.

Judge people much without knowing anything about them.

 

[MrFedEx]

Judge people much without knowing anything about them.

I've spent a fair amount of time in the South. Rednecks abound, and the racism lies just below the surface, little changed from the past. This Yankee thinks most Southerners are just plain ignorant.

 

[bbsam]

I brought up swastikas because that too has "picked up a reputation " of bigotry and hatered. If you have ever been to a person from India's house some have swastikas on the step of their door. Not for hate but because it represents good luck and fortune to them.
Same symbol two different meanings.
Why then is it so inconceivable that the Confederate flag can have two separate meanings. Does one have more merit than the other? Who decides that.

I don't know. That's why I asked.

 

[bbsam]

So what exactly does the Confederate flag symbolize that people take such pride in it?

And now I ask again.

 

[MAKAVELI]

If the majority of the people in that state say it should. Then yeah.
I don't live there so what they choose to do is none of my business

It wasn't a problem until this shooting happened... Just saying

I was talking about the Nazi Swastika.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I was talking about the Nazi Swastika.

Make up your mind

 

[Turdferguson]

I was talking about the Nazi Swastika.

Is there any connection to their history?

 

[MAKAVELI]

Make up your mind

I'm simply asking those that support flying the Confederate flag over a government building, would they support flying the Nazi Swastika as well?

 

[Sportello]

NO, but to your point, the US National government declared that any country that recognized the Confederacy would be at war with the US. Most countries, to avoid war, granted the Confederacy "belligerent status" which allowed trade and support for the Confederacy without official recognition.

Once again, a selective interpretation of the facts.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I'm simply asking those that support flying the Confederate flag over a government building, would they support flying the Nazi Swastika as well?

I didn't bring that topic up.

 

[MAKAVELI]

I didn't bring that topic up.

Well do you?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Well do you?

Nope. But that didn't happen over here.

 

[Brownslave688]

I'm simply asking those that support flying the Confederate flag over a government building, would they support flying the Nazi Swastika as well?

I don't think anyone here has supported flying it over a government building.