Spot the difference competition - Confederates v. Kneelers

[Seawytch]

The difference that the Confederates had the balls to secede and fight for their beliefs. The last time I checked those 'kneelers' are still reaping the benefits of a system and culture they refuse to respect.

This is bullshit. You're looking for reasons to be offended by one thing, and not by another.

The Confederates had the balls to fight, the NFL players risk losing their jobs over this.

The kneelers killed nobody, the Confederates killed 140,000 US TROOPS.

And apparently, the kneelers are disrespecting the US military and the Confederate flag wavers AREN'T.

Can you explain this?

The real difference is that the confederates, at least the leaders, knew what they were fighting for, the kneelers, not so much.

The "protest" isn't about social injustice it is about Trump. The protestors are taking the chance of destroying the NFL over Trump. How f..king stupid can they be? Rhetorical question.

Maybe so.

The kneelers know there is a problem, they're not really sure what it is, but they know it's there. But then again most confederate soldiers didn't really know why they were fighting. So....

Potentially there are leaders of this kind of movement that know what they want to get out of this. Who knows?

If the protest is about Trump, then why did it start under Obama? Yes, Trump has managed to make the protests more widespread. But then again his attitude towards certain groups of people, and as representative of the government, I'd say the protests are in part at him. But because he's making the problems worse, not better.

Yes, there are problems, rogue or poorly trained cops shooting when they should not, problem. Blacks killing blacks at a rate that far exceeds anything the cops do, problem. Drug use in the inner city, problem.

But this "protest" for the most part is not about any of that. There was little or no protest until Trump tried to tell them what the owners should do and the rich millionaires didn't like it. The whole protest has morphed into being about Trump.

Trump made it about Trump. It's the only reason he's still interested.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Get back when a confederate flag flies at a NFL game.

Those were all photoshopped except the black and white pic.

 

[Correll]

Spot the difference.

On the one hand you have those flying the Confederate flag.

These are the sort of people who are telling the kneelers that they're disrespecting the US armed forces, they're disrespecting the flag, they're disrespecting the anthem.

On the other hand you have the kneelers.

The Confederate troops committed Treason. The US Constitution is quite clear on what Treason is, and the Confederacy committed treason and every soldier who took up arms to FIGHT THE SOLDIERS OF THE US ARMED FORCES committed treason.

Now, flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the members of the US armed forces. The Confederates killed members of the US armed forces.

Flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the flag of the United States. It says "we don't want to be a part of that flag, we don't want our star on that flag".

Kneeling in a protest does not disrespect the US flag. The US flag exists because it represents the States, the government, the Constitution. A Constitution which protects freedom to criticize the government.

The kneelers have killed zero US Armed Forces personnel.
The Confederates killed 110,000 people in battle and 25,000 to 30,000 in Confederate prisons.

How is it that the people who fly the flag of treason, the flag of killing US military personnel can turn around and tell those who kneel, that they're disrespecting the anthem and the flag?

The Confederate Flag has been accepted as a harmless symbol of regional pride for over 5 generations in this country.


You are full of shit.

 

[Crixus]

Spot the difference.

On the one hand you have those flying the Confederate flag.

These are the sort of people who are telling the kneelers that they're disrespecting the US armed forces, they're disrespecting the flag, they're disrespecting the anthem.

On the other hand you have the kneelers.

The Confederate troops committed Treason. The US Constitution is quite clear on what Treason is, and the Confederacy committed treason and every soldier who took up arms to FIGHT THE SOLDIERS OF THE US ARMED FORCES committed treason.

Now, flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the members of the US armed forces. The Confederates killed members of the US armed forces.

Flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the flag of the United States. It says "we don't want to be a part of that flag, we don't want our star on that flag".

Kneeling in a protest does not disrespect the US flag. The US flag exists because it represents the States, the government, the Constitution. A Constitution which protects freedom to criticize the government.

The kneelers have killed zero US Armed Forces personnel.
The Confederates killed 110,000 people in battle and 25,000 to 30,000 in Confederate prisons.

How is it that the people who fly the flag of treason, the flag of killing US military personnel can turn around and tell those who kneel, that they're disrespecting the anthem and the flag?

The civil war has been over for like 200 years. Does he 24 hour news cycle lack that badly on a Tuesday morning that you have to rehash this shit ? Damn.

 

[Faun]

Spot the difference.

On the one hand you have those flying the Confederate flag.

These are the sort of people who are telling the kneelers that they're disrespecting the US armed forces, they're disrespecting the flag, they're disrespecting the anthem.

On the other hand you have the kneelers.

The Confederate troops committed Treason. The US Constitution is quite clear on what Treason is, and the Confederacy committed treason and every soldier who took up arms to FIGHT THE SOLDIERS OF THE US ARMED FORCES committed treason.

Now, flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the members of the US armed forces. The Confederates killed members of the US armed forces.

Flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the flag of the United States. It says "we don't want to be a part of that flag, we don't want our star on that flag".

Kneeling in a protest does not disrespect the US flag. The US flag exists because it represents the States, the government, the Constitution. A Constitution which protects freedom to criticize the government.

The kneelers have killed zero US Armed Forces personnel.
The Confederates killed 110,000 people in battle and 25,000 to 30,000 in Confederate prisons.

How is it that the people who fly the flag of treason, the flag of killing US military personnel can turn around and tell those who kneel, that they're disrespecting the anthem and the flag?

The Confederate Flag has been accepted as a harmless symbol of regional pride for over 5 generations in this country.


You are full of shit.

^^^ racist

In reality, the confederate flag symbolizes the secession of the south. Which was divisive and largely over slavery. And while racists today, like the one above, try to minimize the significance of the confederate flag, it’s been used as a symbol of racism since at least the 1940’s, if not earlier, when the more racist faction of the Democrat party splintered off to form the Dixiecrat party. In more modern times, used by racist groups such as the KKK.

 

[Correll]

Spot the difference.

On the one hand you have those flying the Confederate flag.

These are the sort of people who are telling the kneelers that they're disrespecting the US armed forces, they're disrespecting the flag, they're disrespecting the anthem.

On the other hand you have the kneelers.

The Confederate troops committed Treason. The US Constitution is quite clear on what Treason is, and the Confederacy committed treason and every soldier who took up arms to FIGHT THE SOLDIERS OF THE US ARMED FORCES committed treason.

Now, flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the members of the US armed forces. The Confederates killed members of the US armed forces.

Flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the flag of the United States. It says "we don't want to be a part of that flag, we don't want our star on that flag".

Kneeling in a protest does not disrespect the US flag. The US flag exists because it represents the States, the government, the Constitution. A Constitution which protects freedom to criticize the government.

The kneelers have killed zero US Armed Forces personnel.
The Confederates killed 110,000 people in battle and 25,000 to 30,000 in Confederate prisons.

How is it that the people who fly the flag of treason, the flag of killing US military personnel can turn around and tell those who kneel, that they're disrespecting the anthem and the flag?

The Confederate Flag has been accepted as a harmless symbol of regional pride for over 5 generations in this country.


You are full of shit.

^^^ racist

In reality, the confederate flag symbolizes the secession of the south. Which was divisive and largely over slavery. And while racists today, like the one above, try to minimize the significance of the confederate flag, it’s been used as a symbol of racism since at least the 1940’s, if not earlier, when the more racist faction of the Democrat party splintered off to form the Dixiecrat party. In more modern times, used by racist groups such as the KKK.

Blue and Gray reunions at Gettsyburg, 1913.


The Union vets who fought and bled to put down that secession attempt forgave and accepted the Confederate Flag as part of our JOINT American heritage and an accepted and harmless symbol of regional pride, long before you were born.


What moral authority do you have to overrule their forgiveness?

 

[jknowgood]

Get back when a confederate flag flies at a NFL game.

Weak sauce...all of your examples are either unofficial 'fan flags' or Confederate Flags affixed as part of state flags. You can find no example where the Confederate Flag was flown in replacement of the US Flag.

Why do I need to find a place whee a Confederate Flag was shown in replacement of a US flag exactly?

The fact is that people went to NFL games with CONFEDERATE FLAGS which says FUCK YOU to the US MILITARY.

The point here is that the Confederacy was treasonous and that people continue to support the Confederacy, while AT THE SAME TIME, complaining about NFL players (who, you might note, are not replacing the US flag) kneeling and supposedly disrespecting the US military.

It's called HYPOCRISY.

Or better yet, it's looking for reasons to be offended.

The confederate flag is a part of U.S. history. If you call it treason, then I guess California is committing it to. Since they are talking succeeding since Trump was elected. Kneeling during the anthem is being disrespectful to those who defend it.View attachment 153382
This is who you are disrespecting, with your childish attitude.

will you never get tired hiding behind this woman to smear people, you despicable cuntbag?

Why do you disrespect that woman you stupid fuck? I know, because you hate America.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Get back when a confederate flag flies at a NFL game.

Weak sauce...all of your examples are either unofficial 'fan flags' or Confederate Flags affixed as part of state flags. You can find no example where the Confederate Flag was flown in replacement of the US Flag.

Why do I need to find a place whee a Confederate Flag was shown in replacement of a US flag exactly?

The fact is that people went to NFL games with CONFEDERATE FLAGS which says FUCK YOU to the US MILITARY.

The point here is that the Confederacy was treasonous and that people continue to support the Confederacy, while AT THE SAME TIME, complaining about NFL players (who, you might note, are not replacing the US flag) kneeling and supposedly disrespecting the US military.

It's called HYPOCRISY.

Or better yet, it's looking for reasons to be offended.

Or simply protesting the fact that black men dare to have an opinion which of course is in line with their love of the confederacy.

"Disrespect of the flag" is just the cover.

 

[jknowgood]

Get back when a confederate flag flies at a NFL game.

Weak sauce...all of your examples are either unofficial 'fan flags' or Confederate Flags affixed as part of state flags. You can find no example where the Confederate Flag was flown in replacement of the US Flag.

I could go on all day.

 

[Faun]

Spot the difference.

On the one hand you have those flying the Confederate flag.

These are the sort of people who are telling the kneelers that they're disrespecting the US armed forces, they're disrespecting the flag, they're disrespecting the anthem.

On the other hand you have the kneelers.

The Confederate troops committed Treason. The US Constitution is quite clear on what Treason is, and the Confederacy committed treason and every soldier who took up arms to FIGHT THE SOLDIERS OF THE US ARMED FORCES committed treason.

Now, flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the members of the US armed forces. The Confederates killed members of the US armed forces.

Flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the flag of the United States. It says "we don't want to be a part of that flag, we don't want our star on that flag".

Kneeling in a protest does not disrespect the US flag. The US flag exists because it represents the States, the government, the Constitution. A Constitution which protects freedom to criticize the government.

The kneelers have killed zero US Armed Forces personnel.
The Confederates killed 110,000 people in battle and 25,000 to 30,000 in Confederate prisons.

How is it that the people who fly the flag of treason, the flag of killing US military personnel can turn around and tell those who kneel, that they're disrespecting the anthem and the flag?

The Confederate Flag has been accepted as a harmless symbol of regional pride for over 5 generations in this country.


You are full of shit.

^^^ racist

In reality, the confederate flag symbolizes the secession of the south. Which was divisive and largely over slavery. And while racists today, like the one above, try to minimize the significance of the confederate flag, it’s been used as a symbol of racism since at least the 1940’s, if not earlier, when the more racist faction of the Democrat party splintered off to form the Dixiecrat party. In more modern times, used by racist groups such as the KKK.

Blue and Gray reunions at Gettsyburg, 1913.


The Union vets who fought and bled to put down that secession attempt forgave and accepted the Confederate Flag as part of our JOINT American heritage and an accepted and harmless symbol of regional pride, long before you were born.


What moral authority do you have to overrule their forgiveness?

The moral authority granted every American since racists adopted that flag since at least the 1940’s.

 

[Correll]

Get back when a confederate flag flies at a NFL game.

Weak sauce...all of your examples are either unofficial 'fan flags' or Confederate Flags affixed as part of state flags. You can find no example where the Confederate Flag was flown in replacement of the US Flag.

Why do I need to find a place whee a Confederate Flag was shown in replacement of a US flag exactly?

The fact is that people went to NFL games with CONFEDERATE FLAGS which says FUCK YOU to the US MILITARY.

The point here is that the Confederacy was treasonous and that people continue to support the Confederacy, while AT THE SAME TIME, complaining about NFL players (who, you might note, are not replacing the US flag) kneeling and supposedly disrespecting the US military.

It's called HYPOCRISY.

Or better yet, it's looking for reasons to be offended.

Or simply protesting the fact that black men dare to have an opinion which of course is in line with their love of the confederacy.

"Disrespect of the flag" is just the cover.

Your unsupported race baiting is noted and held against you.


You race baiting piece of shit.

 

[Correll]

Spot the difference.

On the one hand you have those flying the Confederate flag.

These are the sort of people who are telling the kneelers that they're disrespecting the US armed forces, they're disrespecting the flag, they're disrespecting the anthem.

On the other hand you have the kneelers.

The Confederate troops committed Treason. The US Constitution is quite clear on what Treason is, and the Confederacy committed treason and every soldier who took up arms to FIGHT THE SOLDIERS OF THE US ARMED FORCES committed treason.

Now, flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the members of the US armed forces. The Confederates killed members of the US armed forces.

Flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the flag of the United States. It says "we don't want to be a part of that flag, we don't want our star on that flag".

Kneeling in a protest does not disrespect the US flag. The US flag exists because it represents the States, the government, the Constitution. A Constitution which protects freedom to criticize the government.

The kneelers have killed zero US Armed Forces personnel.
The Confederates killed 110,000 people in battle and 25,000 to 30,000 in Confederate prisons.

How is it that the people who fly the flag of treason, the flag of killing US military personnel can turn around and tell those who kneel, that they're disrespecting the anthem and the flag?

The Confederate Flag has been accepted as a harmless symbol of regional pride for over 5 generations in this country.


You are full of shit.

^^^ racist

In reality, the confederate flag symbolizes the secession of the south. Which was divisive and largely over slavery. And while racists today, like the one above, try to minimize the significance of the confederate flag, it’s been used as a symbol of racism since at least the 1940’s, if not earlier, when the more racist faction of the Democrat party splintered off to form the Dixiecrat party. In more modern times, used by racist groups such as the KKK.

Blue and Gray reunions at Gettsyburg, 1913.


The Union vets who fought and bled to put down that secession attempt forgave and accepted the Confederate Flag as part of our JOINT American heritage and an accepted and harmless symbol of regional pride, long before you were born.


What moral authority do you have to overrule their forgiveness?

The moral authority granted every American since racists adopted that flag since at least the 1940’s.

Racists don't get to co-opt something just because they want to. They are just as likely to fly the American Flag and that isn't theirs either.


By trying to give them "ownership" of that flag, you are working WITH THEM to exaggerate their importance and relevance.


If they were better people, they would send you a thank you card and a fruit basket.


Me? I reject their claim to a symbol of regional pride of tens of millions of good Americans.


THe racists are a fringe group of no power or importance.


THe WHITE racists at least.

 

[Faun]

Get back when a confederate flag flies at a NFL game.

Weak sauce...all of your examples are either unofficial 'fan flags' or Confederate Flags affixed as part of state flags. You can find no example where the Confederate Flag was flown in replacement of the US Flag.

I could go on all day.

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So?

 

[frigidweirdo]

The difference that the Confederates had the balls to secede and fight for their beliefs. The last time I checked those 'kneelers' are still reaping the benefits of a system and culture they refuse to respect.

This is bullshit. You're looking for reasons to be offended by one thing, and not by another.

The Confederates had the balls to fight, the NFL players risk losing their jobs over this.

The kneelers killed nobody, the Confederates killed 140,000 US TROOPS.

And apparently, the kneelers are disrespecting the US military and the Confederate flag wavers AREN'T.

Can you explain this?

The real difference is that the confederates, at least the leaders, knew what they were fighting for, the kneelers, not so much.

The "protest" isn't about social injustice it is about Trump. The protestors are taking the chance of destroying the NFL over Trump. How f..king stupid can they be? Rhetorical question.

Maybe so.

The kneelers know there is a problem, they're not really sure what it is, but they know it's there. But then again most confederate soldiers didn't really know why they were fighting. So....

Potentially there are leaders of this kind of movement that know what they want to get out of this. Who knows?

If the protest is about Trump, then why did it start under Obama? Yes, Trump has managed to make the protests more widespread. But then again his attitude towards certain groups of people, and as representative of the government, I'd say the protests are in part at him. But because he's making the problems worse, not better.

Yes, there are problems, rogue or poorly trained cops shooting when they should not, problem. Blacks killing blacks at a rate that far exceeds anything the cops do, problem. Drug use in the inner city, problem.

But this "protest" for the most part is not about any of that. There was little or no protest until Trump tried to tell them what the owners should do and the rich millionaires didn't like it. The whole protest has morphed into being about Trump.

There are lots of problems.

The main problems that black people see is that black people suffer 25% poverty rates compared to 7% for whites. Not only is it poverty, but it's poverty being born into and growing up in crime ridden stink holes. Kids literally growing up seeing crime as the only way to live life.

Not only this they see the politicians on the take and not lifting a finger to actually do anything about the situation. Then they see smug white people telling them that if you work hard you everyone can make it in the US, but the harder they work, the more they get put in prison for a long time.

They see problems, and the richer middle classes and beyond are happy to see them living like scum away from the middle class areas, voting for their corrupt politicians and no one gives a flying fuck about these people in poverty and in crime ridden areas.

Then they protest and they see this fucking asshole of a president attack them, and attack them, and attack them again.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Get back when a confederate flag flies at a NFL game.

Weak sauce...all of your examples are either unofficial 'fan flags' or Confederate Flags affixed as part of state flags. You can find no example where the Confederate Flag was flown in replacement of the US Flag.

Why do I need to find a place whee a Confederate Flag was shown in replacement of a US flag exactly?

The fact is that people went to NFL games with CONFEDERATE FLAGS which says FUCK YOU to the US MILITARY.

The point here is that the Confederacy was treasonous and that people continue to support the Confederacy, while AT THE SAME TIME, complaining about NFL players (who, you might note, are not replacing the US flag) kneeling and supposedly disrespecting the US military.

It's called HYPOCRISY.

Or better yet, it's looking for reasons to be offended.

Or simply protesting the fact that black men dare to have an opinion which of course is in line with their love of the confederacy.

"Disrespect of the flag" is just the cover.

Your unsupported race baiting is noted and held against you.


You race baiting piece of shit.

You triggered, bro?

How do you account for the disparate opinions over the two issues?

 

[Correll]

The difference that the Confederates had the balls to secede and fight for their beliefs. The last time I checked those 'kneelers' are still reaping the benefits of a system and culture they refuse to respect.

This is bullshit. You're looking for reasons to be offended by one thing, and not by another.

The Confederates had the balls to fight, the NFL players risk losing their jobs over this.

The kneelers killed nobody, the Confederates killed 140,000 US TROOPS.

And apparently, the kneelers are disrespecting the US military and the Confederate flag wavers AREN'T.

Can you explain this?

The real difference is that the confederates, at least the leaders, knew what they were fighting for, the kneelers, not so much.

The "protest" isn't about social injustice it is about Trump. The protestors are taking the chance of destroying the NFL over Trump. How f..king stupid can they be? Rhetorical question.

Maybe so.

The kneelers know there is a problem, they're not really sure what it is, but they know it's there. But then again most confederate soldiers didn't really know why they were fighting. So....

Potentially there are leaders of this kind of movement that know what they want to get out of this. Who knows?

If the protest is about Trump, then why did it start under Obama? Yes, Trump has managed to make the protests more widespread. But then again his attitude towards certain groups of people, and as representative of the government, I'd say the protests are in part at him. But because he's making the problems worse, not better.

Yes, there are problems, rogue or poorly trained cops shooting when they should not, problem. Blacks killing blacks at a rate that far exceeds anything the cops do, problem. Drug use in the inner city, problem.

But this "protest" for the most part is not about any of that. There was little or no protest until Trump tried to tell them what the owners should do and the rich millionaires didn't like it. The whole protest has morphed into being about Trump.

There are lots of problems.

The main problems that black people see is that black people suffer 25% poverty rates compared to 7% for whites. Not only is it poverty, but it's poverty being born into and growing up in crime ridden stink holes. Kids literally growing up seeing crime as the only way to live life.

Not only this they see the politicians on the take and not lifting a finger to actually do anything about the situation. Then they see smug white people telling them that if you work hard you everyone can make it in the US, but the harder they work, the more they get put in prison for a long time.

They see problems, and the richer middle classes and beyond are happy to see them living like scum away from the middle class areas, voting for their corrupt politicians and no one gives a flying fuck about these people in poverty and in crime ridden areas.

Then they protest and they see this fucking asshole of a president attack them, and attack them, and attack them again.

Black poverty is caused primarily by illegitimacy.


STOP having kids outside of marriage.


Outsourcing and immigration is certainly not helping, and I'm all up for fixing that.

 

[Faun]

Spot the difference.

On the one hand you have those flying the Confederate flag.

These are the sort of people who are telling the kneelers that they're disrespecting the US armed forces, they're disrespecting the flag, they're disrespecting the anthem.

On the other hand you have the kneelers.

The Confederate troops committed Treason. The US Constitution is quite clear on what Treason is, and the Confederacy committed treason and every soldier who took up arms to FIGHT THE SOLDIERS OF THE US ARMED FORCES committed treason.

Now, flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the members of the US armed forces. The Confederates killed members of the US armed forces.

Flying the Confederate flag shows no respect to the flag of the United States. It says "we don't want to be a part of that flag, we don't want our star on that flag".

Kneeling in a protest does not disrespect the US flag. The US flag exists because it represents the States, the government, the Constitution. A Constitution which protects freedom to criticize the government.

The kneelers have killed zero US Armed Forces personnel.
The Confederates killed 110,000 people in battle and 25,000 to 30,000 in Confederate prisons.

How is it that the people who fly the flag of treason, the flag of killing US military personnel can turn around and tell those who kneel, that they're disrespecting the anthem and the flag?

The Confederate Flag has been accepted as a harmless symbol of regional pride for over 5 generations in this country.


You are full of shit.

^^^ racist

In reality, the confederate flag symbolizes the secession of the south. Which was divisive and largely over slavery. And while racists today, like the one above, try to minimize the significance of the confederate flag, it’s been used as a symbol of racism since at least the 1940’s, if not earlier, when the more racist faction of the Democrat party splintered off to form the Dixiecrat party. In more modern times, used by racist groups such as the KKK.

Blue and Gray reunions at Gettsyburg, 1913.


The Union vets who fought and bled to put down that secession attempt forgave and accepted the Confederate Flag as part of our JOINT American heritage and an accepted and harmless symbol of regional pride, long before you were born.


What moral authority do you have to overrule their forgiveness?

The moral authority granted every American since racists adopted that flag since at least the 1940’s.

Racists don't get to co-opt something just because they want to. They are just as likely to fly the American Flag and that isn't theirs either.


By trying to give them "ownership" of that flag, you are working WITH THEM to exaggerate their importance and relevance.


If they were better people, they would send you a thank you card and a fruit basket.


Me? I reject their claim to a symbol of regional pride of tens of millions of good Americans.


THe racists are a fringe group of no power or importance.


THe WHITE racists at least.

Racists adopted the flag because it was a symbol of divisiveness and slavery long before they latched onto it.

 

[Rustic]

The difference that the Confederates had the balls to secede and fight for their beliefs. The last time I checked those 'kneelers' are still reaping the benefits of a system and culture they refuse to respect.

This is bullshit. You're looking for reasons to be offended by one thing, and not by another.

The Confederates had the balls to fight, the NFL players risk losing their jobs over this.

The kneelers killed nobody, the Confederates killed 140,000 US TROOPS.

And apparently, the kneelers are disrespecting the US military and the Confederate flag wavers AREN'T.

Can you explain this?

The real difference is that the confederates, at least the leaders, knew what they were fighting for, the kneelers, not so much.

The "protest" isn't about social injustice it is about Trump. The protestors are taking the chance of destroying the NFL over Trump. How f..king stupid can they be? Rhetorical question.

Maybe so.

The kneelers know there is a problem, they're not really sure what it is, but they know it's there. But then again most confederate soldiers didn't really know why they were fighting. So....

Potentially there are leaders of this kind of movement that know what they want to get out of this. Who knows?

If the protest is about Trump, then why did it start under Obama? Yes, Trump has managed to make the protests more widespread. But then again his attitude towards certain groups of people, and as representative of the government, I'd say the protests are in part at him. But because he's making the problems worse, not better.

Yes, there are problems, rogue or poorly trained cops shooting when they should not, problem. Blacks killing blacks at a rate that far exceeds anything the cops do, problem. Drug use in the inner city, problem.

But this "protest" for the most part is not about any of that. There was little or no protest until Trump tried to tell them what the owners should do and the rich millionaires didn't like it. The whole protest has morphed into being about Trump.

There are lots of problems.

The main problems that black people see is that black people suffer 25% poverty rates compared to 7% for whites. Not only is it poverty, but it's poverty being born into and growing up in crime ridden stink holes. Kids literally growing up seeing crime as the only way to live life.

Not only this they see the politicians on the take and not lifting a finger to actually do anything about the situation. Then they see smug white people telling them that if you work hard you everyone can make it in the US, but the harder they work, the more they get put in prison for a long time.

They see problems, and the richer middle classes and beyond are happy to see them living like scum away from the middle class areas, voting for their corrupt politicians and no one gives a flying fuck about these people in poverty and in crime ridden areas.

Then they protest and they see this fucking asshole of a president attack them, and attack them, and attack them again.

 

[Correll]

Weak sauce...all of your examples are either unofficial 'fan flags' or Confederate Flags affixed as part of state flags. You can find no example where the Confederate Flag was flown in replacement of the US Flag.

Why do I need to find a place whee a Confederate Flag was shown in replacement of a US flag exactly?

The fact is that people went to NFL games with CONFEDERATE FLAGS which says FUCK YOU to the US MILITARY.

The point here is that the Confederacy was treasonous and that people continue to support the Confederacy, while AT THE SAME TIME, complaining about NFL players (who, you might note, are not replacing the US flag) kneeling and supposedly disrespecting the US military.

It's called HYPOCRISY.

Or better yet, it's looking for reasons to be offended.

Or simply protesting the fact that black men dare to have an opinion which of course is in line with their love of the confederacy.

"Disrespect of the flag" is just the cover.

Your unsupported race baiting is noted and held against you.


You race baiting piece of shit.

You triggered, bro?

How do you account for the disparate opinions over the two issues?

No, I just like to treat people with the same respect they show me.


Which, when I am talking to lefties, requires a lot of vulgarity.


The "disparate opinions"?


Easy. The Confederate Flag has been accepted as a harmless symbol of regional pride for over 5 generations in this country.

Regional Pride does not contradict National Pride.


Disrespecting the Anthem and the Flag, DOES.


Now it when you pretend to not understand that obvious and simple truth.

 

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The Confederate Flag has been accepted as a harmless symbol of regional pride for over 5 generations in this country.


You are full of shit.

^^^ racist

In reality, the confederate flag symbolizes the secession of the south. Which was divisive and largely over slavery. And while racists today, like the one above, try to minimize the significance of the confederate flag, it’s been used as a symbol of racism since at least the 1940’s, if not earlier, when the more racist faction of the Democrat party splintered off to form the Dixiecrat party. In more modern times, used by racist groups such as the KKK.

Blue and Gray reunions at Gettsyburg, 1913.


The Union vets who fought and bled to put down that secession attempt forgave and accepted the Confederate Flag as part of our JOINT American heritage and an accepted and harmless symbol of regional pride, long before you were born.


What moral authority do you have to overrule their forgiveness?

The moral authority granted every American since racists adopted that flag since at least the 1940’s.

Racists don't get to co-opt something just because they want to. They are just as likely to fly the American Flag and that isn't theirs either.


By trying to give them "ownership" of that flag, you are working WITH THEM to exaggerate their importance and relevance.


If they were better people, they would send you a thank you card and a fruit basket.


Me? I reject their claim to a symbol of regional pride of tens of millions of good Americans.


THe racists are a fringe group of no power or importance.


THe WHITE racists at least.

Racists adopted the flag because it was a symbol of divisiveness and slavery long before they latched onto it.

No, they adopted it for the same reason they try adopt the American Flag.


They want to try to co-opt other movements and concepts to inflate their status and try to attract more attention and maybe, just maybe recruits.


However they are too small and irrelevant of a force to give them what they want, ie ownership of a symbol of regional pride.


You are welcome to work with them on trying to inflate their statue and relevance.

But I reject their pathetic attempts at relevance.



And refuse to help them, like you.