Take down confederate flag, and change street names in public places?

[AAAintheBeltway]

You guys just don't get it. Those in authority need to lead by example.

The state having had embraced the very flag that represented the ruthlessness and brutality by which a segment of the population had been treated both during and after slavery is repugnant to the extreme and shows that authority was not leading by example. Aside from the period during slavery, the Confederate flag was out in full force during the civil rights movement in the '60s. Can you imagine being black in the 1960s and having that thing waved in your face by whites because you wanted to be treated as an equal? What does that say about the flag? What does it say about you who are defending it, alongside the KKK? Forget tone deaf. Do you guys even have ears?

Well obviously, we don't see it that way, but as a typical liberal, you're not interested in a debate or tolerating opposing viewpoints. All you want to hear is your way, and when someone disagrees, your first instinct is to have them banned, censored, prosecuted etc.

 

[CaptainObvious]

Well obviously, we don't see it that way, but as a typical liberal, you're not interested in a debate or tolerating opposing viewpoints. All you want to hear is your way, and when someone disagrees, your first instinct is to have them banned, censored, prosecuted etc.

And how many lives will be saved after the banning and censoring? None. Not a single one.They just refuse to address the indisputable fact that the most dangerous person a black man will come across is another black man. They refuse to even debate the staggering numbers of blacks being killed by other blacks. They refuse to recognize the the abject terror that is being perpetrated on black families by these roving gangs of black thugs. Lets obsess about a flag, wring our hands, and endlessly pontificate about things that have absolutely nothing to do with the horror being committed in these communities.

 

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[nitro]

Jenny Horne: How a descendant of the president of the Confederacy helped vanquish his flag

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...nfederacy-helped-vanquish-his-flag/ar-AAcKZvx

 

[nitro]

 

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[CaptainObvious]

The murderer was also shown burning the American flag. Does that image offend you? If you're offended by the sight of the Confederate flag, but not by the desecration of the American flag, you are a hypocrite and you are the problem. If your answer is that the desecration of the American flag is purely freedom of expression, but deny the same right of expression to people who want to fly the Confederate flag, you are a hypocrite, and you are the problem. Case closed.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

The murderer was also shown burning the American flag. Does that image offend you? If you're offended by the sight of the Confederate flag, but not by the desecration of the American flag, you are a hypocrite and you are the problem. If your answer is that the desecration of the American flag is purely freedom of expression, but deny the same right of expression to people who want to fly the Confederate flag, you are a hypocrite, and you are the problem. Case closed.

I don't know whom you're addressing your post to, but if you are offended by the burning of the American flag but not by the raising of the Confederate flag on American soil (and on government property at that!), then you are either a hypocrite or breathtakingly oblivious to your own country's history.

 

[CaptainObvious]

I don't know whom you're addressing your post to, but if you are offended by the burning of the American flag but not by the raising of the Confederate flag on American soil (and on government property at that!), then you are either a hypocrite or breathtakingly oblivious to your own country's history.

Offended is the operative word. If the southern states freely choose to fly this flag I support their right to exercise that freedom of expression. I may disagree with what they're doing, and believe that they might be better off if they quit fighting the war that they so clearly lost, but in a free society I must be tolerate of those ideas which I don't agree with. This is the base foundation of what living in a free society is all about.
If we're going to make judgments on what we can and cannot do based solely on what one or the other of us finds offensive, we're going to be trapped in our homes staring at the wall and little else. That type of fascist society is not appealing to me, so I practice what the left often trumpets, but seldom puts in to practice. Tolerance.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Offended is the operative word. If the southern states freely choose to fly this flag I support their right to exercise that freedom of expression. I may disagree with what they're doing, and believe that they might be better off if they quit fighting the war that they so clearly lost, but in a free society I must be tolerate of those ideas which I don't agree with. This is the base foundation of what living in a free society is all about.
If we're going to make judgments on what we can and cannot do based solely on what one or the other of us finds offensive, we're going to be trapped in our homes staring at the wall and little else. That type of fascist society is not appealing to me, so I practice what the left often trumpets, but seldom puts in to practice. Tolerance.

The Confederate flag is symbolic of bigotry and racial divide. You will recall that it was even sported by those opposed to the civil rights movement in the 1960s and who favored segregation. That the state government would fly a flag connoting bigotry to anyone but the must obtuse, or those who pretend to be, is tantamount to institutionalized bigotry. And that is the land you want to live in? You seem very tolerant of the intolerant.