Photo Shows McConnell In Front of Confederate Flag. So ?

[protectionist]

Of course it was done on purpose. However, we came to our senses and fought a war to end it. We fought that war with the confederacy, because they didn't want to end it.

You also are oblivious to the point of this thread.

Again Hint: VETERANS

Off the computer now. Have other things to do.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

This doesn’t look good. Expect calls for
McConnell’s resignation.

http://time.com/5519534/match-mcconnell-confederate-flag-northam-yearbook/

I bet Turtle Mitch hung that flag on the wall by himself, with his own flippers.

Little know fact about Mitch: He could never be considered racist after he had a small role in a 1970s cartoon as a black kid.

 

[aaronleland]

This doesn’t look good. Expect calls for
McConnell’s resignation.

http://time.com/5519534/match-mcconnell-confederate-flag-northam-yearbook/

I bet Turtle Mitch hung that flag on the wall by himself, with his own flippers.

Aww. Mitch is adorable.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

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.

Thats what libs do. Keep the "weeds" in their place. Sanger style....and then try to whitewash their own sordid history.

 

[Marion Morrison]

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.

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.

A photograph of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) posing in front of a Confederate flag is making the rounds on social media. Why ? What does it matter ? The flag represents a regional kinship that many southerners have. Sure, it also once represented the Confederacy, and a defense of slavery, 154 years ago, but that was then, not now, and it was generations ago.

Also, it might be noted that many (if not most) of the southerners who fought in the Civil War did so only in self-defense, against an army that traveled hundreds of miles to their home towns, and was shooting at them, blowing up their building, burning down their churches. When asked of southern fighters why they were fighting, the common answer was almost always "Because you're here".

Few southerners, engaged in battle with or without the Confederate flag flying, knew much of anything about slavery, about the Confederacy, and few probably ever even heard of Jefferson Davis. In those days, there was no TV, no radio, no computers, and if southerners had a local newspaper at all, they probably couldn't read it anyway.

So did the veterans who died fighting in defense of their home turfs deserve to be remembered and honored for their courage, as much as the Union troops who attacked them ? I would say so.
So, is the Sons of Confederate Veterans (the group at which McConnell is shown in the picture) a legitimate organization, with a reasonable (if not honorable) standing ? I would say so. Is the Confederate flag a reasonable symbol for the group ? I think it is, as long as one isn't looking for negatives, and prospecting for dispute.

And if one is looking for adversity, might not the burden be on THEM, to justify what could be seen as a bigoted perspective, toward a region of the country inhabited by over 100 million people ?

Photo of Mitch McConnell in Front of a Confederate Flag Resurfaces Amid Northam Yearbook Controversy

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


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Way to parrot the latest Communist brain farts!

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

The sons of the confederacy do little to protect their "heritage" from appropriation by white supremacists. The reason is simple, they are all part of the same lousy bunch of haters.

How would they protect their "heritage" from white supremacist misappropriation? Trademarks? Ask government to ban free speech?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

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

Couldn't you say the same for the people calling the MAGA hats racist?

 

[bendog]

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

Couldn't you say the same for the people calling the MAGA hats racist?

Given Trump's birtherism, I don't think anyone with a MAGA hat just gets a free pass. It's not "ancient history." What happened 30-40 years ago .... it cannot tell you what is in someone's heart today. And that goes for everything, from how one treats women (or men), criminal offenses, paying your child care, substance abuse .......

 

[Moonglow]

Don't tell anyone! The military is banning blackface from soldiers to use during night exercises in fact the black soldiers now have to wear white face during night maneuvers for equal ability to be seen...

 

[TNHarley]

Gawd this shit is stupid. Both sides need to grow the fuck up

 

[deanrd]

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The left is so fucking full of shit.


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Where is the picture of Bill Clinton and Al Gore?

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Does this mean the left won't vote for the guy?

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

This doesn’t look good. Expect calls for
McConnell’s resignation.

http://time.com/5519534/match-mcconnell-confederate-flag-northam-yearbook/

I bet Turtle Mitch hung that flag on the wall by himself, with his own flippers.

That looks like the makings of an Outer Limits episode.

 

[basquebromance]

this northam excuse is the dumbest most implausible explanation for an obviously guilty moment i have ever seen, and i have 6 foster children!

 

[Conservative65]

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.

Your feelings don't count, boy. You claiming it's stupid and wrong because you disagree has as much value as a job application to a welfare leech.

 

[blackhawk]

 

[Marion Morrison]

The CSA was an enemy of the USA, no different than Germany or Japan in WWII.

The only difference is that the CSA never quit being an enemy of the USA

As I said, 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, and you are the bigot.

The fact some states added it to their flags does not remove the fact that the CSA was an enemy to the USA. This fact you can not deny.



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I'm starting to think you lie about going to college in FL.

 

[Bleipriester]

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.

Then you got it wrong.

 

[toomuchtime_]

A photograph of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) posing in front of a Confederate flag is making the rounds on social media. Why ? What does it matter ? The flag represents a regional kinship that many southerners have. Sure, it also once represented the Confederacy, and a defense of slavery, 154 years ago, but that was then, not now, and it was generations ago.

Also, it might be noted that many (if not most) of the southerners who fought in the Civil War did so only in self-defense, against an army that traveled hundreds of miles to their home towns, and was shooting at them, blowing up their building, burning down their churches. When asked of southern fighters why they were fighting, the common answer was almost always "Because you're here".

Few southerners, engaged in battle with or without the Confederate flag flying, knew much of anything about slavery, about the Confederacy, and few probably ever even heard of Jefferson Davis. In those days, there was no TV, no radio, no computers, and if southerners had a local newspaper at all, they probably couldn't read it anyway.

So did the veterans who died fighting in defense of their home turfs deserve to be remembered and honored for their courage, as much as the Union troops who attacked them ? I would say so.
So, is the Sons of Confederate Veterans (the group at which McConnell is shown in the picture) a legitimate organization, with a reasonable (if not honorable) standing ? I would say so. Is the Confederate flag a reasonable symbol for the group ? I think it is, as long as one isn't looking for negatives, and prospecting for dispute.

And if one is looking for adversity, might not the burden be on THEM, to justify what could be seen as a bigoted perspective, toward a region of the country inhabited by over 100 million people ?

Photo of Mitch McConnell in Front of a Confederate Flag Resurfaces Amid Northam Yearbook Controversy

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

So what? Are you accusing him of being pro slavery?

 

[Olde Europe]

What YOU can't see the difference of is the different things that the Confederate flag represents, including those things having nothing to do with slavery. THAT's what boggles the mind.

We don't all accept the left's definitions of things, - that includes the Confederate flag.

So, what I "can't see the difference of is the different things that the Confederate flag represents". Really.

The Confederacy was created for one, and only one, purpose, to keep White supremacy, slavery, the ownership of human beings, and all the unspeakable brutality it entails, alive. Never, ever shall anyone be allowed to rewrite history and change the meaning of that flag, and your incoherent babbling sure doesn't. Gawd knows it's long past time these mendacious dinosaurs die out, and the world will be better off for it.