Resnic said:
People who think the Confederate flag is about racism and hate have no idea what the flag stands for.
That's exactly what that flag stood for and you're delusional if you think it didn't.
Yes and no.
At the end of WWII, the Allies destroyed as much Nazi symbols, paraphernalia, etc as possible.
This forever locked in, and tied the symbols to that horrific time and ideology. From that point on, the entire world recognized and associated those symbols with pure evil. This killed any debate of what the symbols stood for.
At the end of the Civil War on the other hand, the United States government, allowed the Confederate flag to live on, and even flourish as it ended up even being incorporated into official state flags of several states.
By allowing this, the flag slowly evolved away from the original representation of states that approved of slavery, into more of a representation of a region of the country. This is why it's been so difficult in today's world to completely rid the nation of it.
When you see it flying, you immediately view it, and associate it with slavery, and possibly even believe the people flying it as believing black people should be slaves.
The people flying it today on the other hand, likely view it more as a symbol of a region of the country that they live in and have pride in.
Had the U.S. government banned the flag and it's use right at the end of the war, it would have been locked in to that time, and there wouldn't be a debate today.