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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Meanwhile, in Manchester...
Bunch of old dudes having a cowboy party in some local pub put up a Confederates flag, drinkers tear it down.
wtf next? Petitioning outside DVD stores selling the Dukes of Hazzard?
Media doing an oustanding job of getting morons to associate the Confederates flag with white supremacy, even in the UK.
The vast majority of people who think this have absolutely no fucking idea of the history of the American Civil War. My knowledge on that subject is very poor, which is why I don't sit here saying it's the same as the Nazi flag. I have no idea what the Confederates flag represents. I do respect the right of people to wave it about though. Just like morons can wave about a Nazi flag if they want to tell the world how moronic they are.
Flags will always offend someone. Fuck people who are offended by flags.
People who like the Confederate flag like it because it represents freedom from tyranny. History is being revised such that people don't even remember that the union of states was originally a confederation. Many don't like the pseudo-unitary state it is becoming.
People who don't like the Confederate flag think black people are being held down by white people. They're half right. Black people are being held down by white and black Democrats.
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