and I agree.

They are flipping out; going nuts over the flag being taken down in South Carolina after that damn punk kid waved it and a pistol?

What a sorry ass bunch of turdblossoms retching like that over a flag.

Screw foxnews and the sewer they floated in on.

If so which part did you disagree with?

I laugh at them. With all that is going on, they have no higher mind than to whine about the flag being taken down from official state flagposts?

We know they hate Obama, and equality, and could not care one whit about the people who see the flag, and that punk-ass kid, as threats to their freedom... so screw them. I hope they choke on it.

Heh, they are choking!!

That flag shouldnt be flying on government property. Only the very far right think it should.

But the idea that we need to destroy statues, monuments, or ban private individuals from flying the confederate flag (a couple on DU have suggested as such) is what's going way too far.

""Most conservatives agree the flag should be taken down from state grounds""

And those that are choking on it, I laugh at.

I think of that rag as akin to porno-graphic. It is a symbol of oppression.

When I see someone waving it, it gives me warning to stay clear of them. Or if I feel like arguing with an idiot, get in their face.

Far from ignoring the context of them, museums preserve it. The flag was at the state house last week. That's when it was judged for being at the state house last week. No context of time was lost. And btw, good people were abolitionists in the 1600s.

The Dukes of Hazzard aren't history.

Warner Brothers, Amazon and WalMart are private companies. They can do whatever they want.

Social media doesn't make anyone more stupid. It just makes everyone's ideas, stupid and clever, more visible.

Amazon's making a voluntary business decision about selling confederate flag items doesn't have a hell of a lot to do with Muslim fundamentalism.

I could go on, but you get the picture. The Op article don't impress me much.

were making their decisions about removing the Confederate Flag from public view be it state grounds, clothes, games and most everything else, the actual issue of racism was put on the back burner and Congress passed fast track authority on the TPP.


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As for its' connection to Muslim Fundamentalism.

it stands for and why any government's elevating is wrong.

The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Act did not end racism, yet they had to be. However, you can't legislate racism out of existence. You can, however, legislate government participation in racism out of existence. Or into existence.

South Carolina had a law that mandated that a symbol of slavery and racism fly at the state house unless a super majority of the state legislature decided otherwise. That law should end. However, ending the law should not end the effort to end racism in "hearts and minds." It's not one or the other.

We have a tendency to go "either or," or false dilemma. Should we leave the flag of racism flying at state houses or should we work on ending racism? is a false dilemma.

BTW, the Taliban is not anyone's duly elected legislature or Amazon's board of directors . Every "connection" of some kind is not an equivalency or even an apt analogy.

but it's not a black and white world.

The Stars and Stripes being a prime example and that will be under attack next and perhaps for good reason it has a sordid past as well.

It stands for what this nation stands for--all of it--freedom from a monarch, representative government, etc.. There is not a single nation on earth that has been perfect throughout its entire entire history, yet every nation has a flag.

The confederate flag stands for a nation that rebelled against the USA because the USA would not extend slavery to the territories.

I commented on the OP article. Seems you want to go away from that into why it should be okay to fly a flag of slavery and treason at a state house today. I don't see a point to my participating in that discussion.

So, good night.

removing it from the state flag as some states have it incorporated, if that's what the state wants to do.

As for history; it never stops being revised.

Good night to you, merrily.

whether the U.S. would be better off if the South, Texas or any other state left the union all you do is give ammunition to the people that you claim to despise, along with multitudes of people; on the border that identify with their city, state or region to even more strongly cling to that symbol of rebellion.

Not to mention that you betray (not you personally) that which Abraham Lincoln, 300,000+ dead and countless wounded Union Soldiers fought and died for, preserving the Union.

In my book, regionalism is no different than racism, it's the same narrow minded, simplistic mindset.

because of regionalism last week.

And no, not me personally. Disliking a flag is not the same as disliking a region or everyone in a region. Neither is condemning the Klan the same as condemning a region or everyone in a region.

Charleston, but people have been killed all over the world over it, this tribe that tribe, this nation that nation.

It doesn't take too much awareness or research to know that.

I'm not accusing you of regionalism but those that practice it only increase the odds of Southerners "getting over" that terrible conflict and in turn weaken our nation by keeping fault lines active.

P.S. I don't have any problem condemning the Klan.