It seems to me your just trying to stir up trouble.

Nobody is making that flag an issue today except you.

Nah, they're making it an issue by continuing to fly it. I wouldn't be posting about this if I didn't see it. (see above)

You seeing a flag flying “a few times” while on vacation does not mean a thing to me.

Sorry you got triggered, but it’s just not something that really matters.

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Our history matters, and we'll be studying and talking about the Civil War for the next hundred years to come. It is the rest of the stuff in the 24-hour news cycle that most political memes are about that is not going to matter.

Triggered? Who, your mirror?

Bullshit. People use this flag every day. Seems you have a problem with the OP. THAT, is the problem!

*you’re

As I commented in my other Confederate flag image from today imgflip.com/i/3i6xgm, I'm a white boy from the south and I saw a lot of this flag growing up. I did not really understand how wrong it was, until I grew up a little bit and had some conversations with others, including black friends, that opened my eyes.

These two submissions to the Politics stream were prompted by my Thanksgiving trip back home to Tennessee, where I saw this flag flying a few times. I even seen it flown in places like rural Illinois (never part of the Confederacy), which really confuses me.

I think a lot of people have wrongfully adopted this flag as some sort of symbol against big cities, liberalism, modernity, and... unfortunately in some cases, black people themselves.

Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.

I don't care about the flag. I think it's pitiful that some people can't see an inanimate object without getting triggered.

Nobody serves that flag any more. It's a piece of history....that's it.

So why are you crying about it?

I didn't make a meme about it. I'm just here to laugh at your weakness.

Padre, doth project too much.

I came here to laugh at you, hence why my reply to YOUR comment is my reply to YOUR comment which preceded mine because my reply to YOUR comment came AFTER your comment as witnessed by me not commenting on this meme prior to my reply to YOUR comment on said meme.
You capicheing me on this?

Perhaps you should buy a new Mensa card so you can figure out even simple things like that.

Flashback on reading your question.

haha, what movie is that?

My Blue Heaven, Steve Martin and Rick Moranis. About a witness relocated mobster.

Looks like I never caught that one,,,

My Blue Heaven, Steve Martin and Rick Moranis. About a witness relocated mobster.

"Inanimate object" -- come on, you're smart enough to know that flags are meaningful. People go to war and die over them and what they stand for. And in the case of the Civil War, hundreds of thousands.

Yes, it's in the past, but it happened, and people clearly still care to this day as evidenced by the amount of comments this is getting.

If you haven't noticed, there are people cheering you on, and people calling you an idiot. Nobody is saying "muh flag!"

You're right that nobody's going "muh flag!" explicitly, but the other meme I did today on this topic didn't feature a burning flag and the comments over there haven't quite caught fire like this one has

...caught... fire. hehe.

Dukes General Lee toy cars are now shipped with the roof covered by cardboard to avoid triggering oversensitive liberal weenies...get a life.

My BFF's Father had a giant flag like that in his man cafe when we were kids.. It was from his college where he played football "Bammy" he was black btw.

The Confederacy wasn't dependent on Slavery. They were rebelling because of federal overreach and when they left the US, they had a legal right to do it, which is why armies weren't marched into them the first day they declared it. People need to read history.

I forgot: The flag itself is not racist. It is and always was a rebellion against federal overreach. Only recently has it been seen as racist, along side the ok hand sign.

Hmm. I think the Confederate battle flag has been seen as racist for quite some time. However, assuming you are correct, the fact that something is only now being recognized as racist does not mean that it wasn't always racist to begin with.

I'll allow that for some people it stands for rebellion against federal overreach. As does the Gadsden flag. I would argue they should fly this flag as it does not carry the racist overtones.

Ah yes... the states' rights argument. Already addressed that a few days ago. 3i1xou.jpg (click to show)

The right not to be controlled by the federal government. Nullification of Federal laws deemed unconstitutional at the state level. It just happens that one of the specific issues was slavery, which was being slowly fazed out by an early industrial revolution.
The civil war was caused by:
1. Revolution of cotton production
2. Election of Abraham Lincoln as president
3. Slavery
They tried to remove slavery which would have collapsed the cotton production which would have thrown the country into a depression greater than the 'great depression'. It wasn't about slavery, it was about not replacing slavery with something of equal value.

They never tried to remove slavery, just limit its spread into new states.
And that issue was more about votes, as new states in addition to the 2/5ths law would sway the balance of influence on the Federal Goverment in their favor.
The Emancipation Proclamation, an unenforceable bogus law to begin with, only applied to Confederate States, not the border slave States that chose to remain in the Union.

In addition, in reference to a previous comment, they all did not have the right to leave the Union.

Yes, Federal overreach was an issue, and ironically the Civil War ultimately gave impetus to accelerate the expansion of it. In fact, it was after the war that Lincoln started referring to the USA as a nation, rather than as the federation of nations that it was designed to be.

They wrote slavery into their Constitution, but I can see people not all getting the same things from any symbol. It's basically promoting groupthink to say all should see the same thing.

Weird flex, but okay.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans died over this, a long time ago... it doesn't typically feature in our 24-hour news cycle, except when statues are being removed, but definitely still worth comment.

The flag really wasn't an issue until the 1950's or 1960's (civil rights movement).Less than 1% of the population actually cares about the Confederate Battle Flag.

Oh, so the battle flag wasn't "an issue" until black people finally got out from under Jim Crow and started to get a greater political voice in society. Weird coincidence, that.

History - read some. Southern Democrats were (initially) to blame for this.

Certainly Southern Democrats were the main force to blame. But in a sense all white Americans (Republicans and Democrats) share some blame for the failure of reconstruction and the fact that blacks didn't get fully-fledged political rights until 100 years after the end of the Civil War.

It would shock you to know the percentage of the "black south" has heritage ties to that flag.

Not something I have any anecdotal experience with. (I can already see this conversation trending in the direction of: "Well what about black Confederate soldiers, black slavery in Africa, etc.")

None of these outliers change the fundamental character of the Civil War, or what the Confederate Flag means to a large majority of blacks in America.

The meme is fine and yeah, we share a similar stance on it. However, the same amendment that covers our stance on that flag, covers burning the American flag.

burning a flag on IMGFLIP...so brave lol