LOLOther shows, like All in the Family, proved you're a buffoon.Acceptance is not approval. Cut the crap.
Most have been forced to "accept" the "choice" between two mediocre to crappy political presidential candidates and cable TV providers for decades. Doesn't translate to "rebranding" or "approval." You just make shit up, repeat it ad nauseum, and call it "proof." Fuck you and your vacuous logic.
If the confederate flag was considered in the 80s, even just by liberals, the way you libs pretend to consider it now, the presentation of Bo and Luke Duke in a sympathetic light, while tooling around in the General Lee with a big ole Confederate Flag painted on the roof,
would never had been done, and if done, would have generated tremendous backlash.
The easy acceptance of the show, and the way they presented those symbols as utterly harmless, proves my point, that they have long ago been "rebranded" as harmless symbols of regional pride.
My logic is bulletproof, which is why the other posters have spent most of their time and energy pretending to not understand it, and attacking strawmen.
What is upsetting you, is your brain feeling the pain of learning.
YOu lib asshole.
Yet, you don't explain how or why....
Loser.
Liar, I already explained how America turned in to watch racism and bigotry with All in the family, just as they turned in to watch Dukes of Hazzard. Americans no more accepted the Confederate flag and General Lee as they did racism and bigotry.
You're literally relying on TV shows to invent a point about reality.
And I pointed out that All in the Family was a far more serious and nuanced show. Archie Bunker, was presented not an idealized hero, but as a deeply flawed man.
The DUkes of Hazzard was a much simpler show,and there was nothing on the nuance of All in the Family, especially in relation to their regional pride. or the General Lee and the Confederate Flag painted on it's top.
YOur denial of this obvious and glaring truth, is just you stone walling.
And there is nothing wrong with looking at a society's entertainment to learn about or make a point about a society, or what they believe or accept.