Photo Shows McConnell In Front of Confederate Flag. So ?

[Stormy Daniels]

Actually, it's the same thing, keeping the darkies in their place.

Stick to regurgitating the Syrian Propaganda line, you sound less retarded.

Looks like provocation to me.

Since you tend to have a weakness for assassinations of elected Presidents, will you be after Maduro, soon?

It's history, it happened. Learn from it, don't try to erase it.

So Germans should display the Nazi flag because it's history? They should keep statues of Hitler in the town square?

Museums are the appropriate place.

No. But it can also be argued that the swastika should not be saddled as a Nazi symbol.

The Nazis appropriated the swastika for their symbol and now it means horror rather than good fortune. Who's to blame? Certainly not those who still see it as a symbol of hatred.

Actually, you are to blame for your own stubborn, tunnel visioned insistence on maintaining such a narrow view.

 

[occupied]

Looks like provocation to me.

Since you tend to have a weakness for assassinations of elected Presidents, will you be after Maduro, soon?

It's history, it happened. Learn from it, don't try to erase it.

So Germans should display the Nazi flag because it's history? They should keep statues of Hitler in the town square?

Museums are the appropriate place.

No. But it can also be argued that the swastika should not be saddled as a Nazi symbol.

The Nazis appropriated the swastika for their symbol and now it means horror rather than good fortune. Who's to blame? Certainly not those who still see it as a symbol of hatred.

Actually, you are to blame for your own stubborn, tunnel visioned insistence on maintaining such a narrow view.

The nazis and white supremacists still use it therefore it still means the same thing.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

It's history, it happened. Learn from it, don't try to erase it.

So Germans should display the Nazi flag because it's history? They should keep statues of Hitler in the town square?

Museums are the appropriate place.

No. But it can also be argued that the swastika should not be saddled as a Nazi symbol.

The Nazis appropriated the swastika for their symbol and now it means horror rather than good fortune. Who's to blame? Certainly not those who still see it as a symbol of hatred.

Actually, you are to blame for your own stubborn, tunnel visioned insistence on maintaining such a narrow view.

The nazis and white supremacists still use it therefore it still means the same thing.

This is typical white westerner thinking. Some white guys start using a symbol in a corrupted manner, it now only and evermore means exactly that. Everyone else must stop using it's true, original meaning because only the white man's corrupted version matters.

 

[occupied]

So Germans should display the Nazi flag because it's history? They should keep statues of Hitler in the town square?

Museums are the appropriate place.

No. But it can also be argued that the swastika should not be saddled as a Nazi symbol.

The Nazis appropriated the swastika for their symbol and now it means horror rather than good fortune. Who's to blame? Certainly not those who still see it as a symbol of hatred.

Actually, you are to blame for your own stubborn, tunnel visioned insistence on maintaining such a narrow view.

The nazis and white supremacists still use it therefore it still means the same thing.

This is typical white westerner thinking. Some white guys start using a symbol in a corrupted manner, it now only and evermore means exactly that. Everyone else must stop using it's true, original meaning because only the white man's corrupted version matters.

The estimates of total deaths in WW2 run as high as 70 million. I think it's pretty much toast and not worth fighting for. Plenty of other symbols not tainted by genocide.

 

[protectionist]

That picture of Turtle boy wasn't taken 154 years ago dumb ass.

Who cares when it was taken ? I wouldn't care if it was taken last night, dumb ass.

 

[protectionist]

xx

 

[protectionist]

Yes, there was. It was disgusting, wrong, and we acknowledged it was disgusting and wrong. Stupid to pretend it was ever right, especially now.

Who's pretending it was right ? Or are you pretending that somebody is pretending that ?

 

[protectionist]

Bullshit. The displaying confederate flag is an intentional action to antagonize the civil rights movement.

That is a definition of things that the left has come up with. Part of the reason for this OP is to extinguish the idea that the left makes a definition of something (often deranged), and then we're all supposed to go along with it, or else be called a racist of this name or that name.

I see no reason to defer to the left's definitions of anything. I prefer reality. As for the left's proclamations, I can only say

 

[protectionist]

Sure, the Confederacy was a slave colony with about 80 % of the population being blacks. But I guess, it´s today´s meaning is different from what it was back then. It´s the rebel yell and so on. Most people do not have slavery in mind when they put their stickers on the cycles but the exact opposite.

Actually, it's the same thing, keeping the darkies in their place.

Stick to regurgitating the Syrian Propaganda line, you sound less retarded.

Looks like provocation to me.

If one chooses to see provocation, one will see provocation.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Don't these flags/emblems support racist Affirmative Action discrimination ?

No, only an insecure racist would promulgate this as racism.

 

[protectionist]

I've read your posts. You think lots of goofy stuff.

Sounds like he must be a good poster.

 

[protectionist]

It's history, it happened. Learn from it, don't try to erase it.

Or redefine it.

 

[Wry Catcher]

There was slavery under the Star-Spangled Banner, so what now?

Yes, there was. It was disgusting, wrong, and we acknowledged it was disgusting and wrong. Stupid to pretend it was ever right, especially now.

Sure, the Confederacy was a slave colony with about 80 % of the population being blacks. But I guess, it´s today´s meaning is different from what it was back then. It´s the rebel yell and so on. Most people do not have slavery in mind when they put their stickers on the cycles but the exact opposite.

Why do you want the readers to believe you know what most people in their mind? You can't, and this your posts suggest you're a relic of a nefarious past.

 

[protectionist]

It's history. It happened. It was one of our most shameful periods. We should be ashamed of it. Not celebrate it.

Part of what should be ashamed of, was the Union invading many areas of the South, that had no slavery, and never even heard of the Confederacy. It was similar to US troops invading backward areas of South Vietnam, whose people never heard of the USA, much less ever attacked or threatened us.

 

[protectionist]

There are other forms of racism in America, too. You need to tolerate or ban them all.

The biggest and worst (by far) one is Affirmative Action.

 

[protectionist]

If the rebel flag ever meant anything good it was long before any of us were born.

Upon what do you base that notion ?

 

[protectionist]

So Germans should display the Nazi flag because it's history? They should keep statues of Hitler in the town square?

Museums are the appropriate place.

Nazi flags represent only bad things. The Confederate flag has represented both good and bad things. Today, southerners fly it to represent the good, not the bad.

This shouldn't be too hard to figure out, unless one is a hardened leftist who thinks we're all supposed to accept his perspective, and nothing else.

 

[BULLDOG]

Sure, the Confederacy was a slave colony with about 80 % of the population being blacks. But I guess, it´s today´s meaning is different from what it was back then. It´s the rebel yell and so on. Most people do not have slavery in mind when they put their stickers on the cycles but the exact opposite.

Actually, it's the same thing, keeping the darkies in their place.

Stick to regurgitating the Syrian Propaganda line, you sound less retarded.

Looks like provocation to me.

Since you tend to have a weakness for assassinations of elected Presidents, will you be after Maduro, soon?

It's history, it happened. Learn from it, don't try to erase it.

It's history. It happened. It was one of our most shameful periods. We should be ashamed of it. Not celebrate it.

Based on what you say, we shouldn't fly the U.S. flag. If flying a Confederate flag celebrates slavery, so do flying the U.S. flag. Are you arguing that slavery under the U.S. flag wasn't done on purpose?

Perfect right wing logic. Stupid and wrong, but perfect right wing logic.

 

[protectionist]

The Confederate Flag is the flag of an enemy nation to the United States. There is no point in the short history of the CSA they were not an enemy.

Flying their flag is no different than flying the Rising Sun flag or the Nazi Germany flag

False! The Confederate flag was/is part of the United States. Same as the state flags of Texas, Georgia, Florida, Virginia. To call it an enemy flag, is to call 11 states of the US, and 100 million Americans, enemies. This is bigotry against a large region of the US.

 

[bendog]

So Germans should display the Nazi flag because it's history? They should keep statues of Hitler in the town square?

Museums are the appropriate place.

Nazi flags represent only bad things. The Confederate flag has represented both good and bad things. Today, southerners fly it to represent the good, not the bad.

This shouldn't be too hard to figure out, unless one is a hardened leftist who thinks we're all supposed to accept his perspective, and nothing else.

I live here, and the dumbshits who "fly" it do it because they're ignorant and want to ignore what it stood for. And that includes YOU

The difference is apparently that if you are a dem and did the stupid, you are called on to resign. But if you are republican, you are in good standing. See Cindy Hyde Smith.

jmo, but so long as a pol (Justice) owns up to his/her mistakes and not only apologizes to anyone hurt, but also can show a pattern of serving all people and trying to made this country a better place, we need to move on