What kind of aesthetically-challenged person can't appreciate the beauty of a Confederate flag?

[ReinyDays]

The State Flag of Maryland has been known to cause spontaneous seizures in Japanese school children...

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Thank you for posting this ... one of my all time favs ...

 

[ReinyDays]

California flag:

Kids today don't know nothin' ...

 

[Turtlesoup]

The Nazi Swastika was aesthetically pleasing

Unlike the diagonal cross on the Confederate flag, the swastika had no significant basis in Christian symbolism. Rather its origins were derived from Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Odinism.

The Swastika was an EARLY christian cross found in the caves of rome.....and surrounding area. VERY EARLY cross----it was also a recurring motiff on Hitlers boyhood catholic church. A lot of revisionist history on the net trying erase these facts though so you gotta know what you looking for.

 

[ReinyDays]

The Swastika was an EARLY christian cross found in the caves of rome.....and surrounding area. VERY EARLY cross----it was also a recurring motiff on Hitlers boyhood catholic church.

It was important in Navajo culture as well ... still a few "swastika bridges" in the New Mexico/Arizona area ...

 

[JGalt]

Put away everything you've been taught about American history for a mere moment and consider this: There are stark similarities between our own U.S. flag, and what people believe to the archtypical "Stars and Bars" Confederate flag. Both are red, white, and blue, and both have stars. Although the current U.S. flag typifies the unification of 50 states, the 13 stars on the Confederate flag represented those states which defied at that time, an oppressive federal government.

That's where the similarity of the two flags ends. The ones flown during the Confederacy also had the Christian image of a cross, while the one we we fly today, don't. An interesting notation about the cross, is the orientation of the cross on the flag..

"The claim states the blue cross represents the Christian cross of Saint Andrew. In reality, the flag’s design explicitly sought to avoid ecclesiastical meaning, according to Kaye. In the book “The Confederate Battle Flag”, historian John M. Coski explains that the cross was turned diagonally with the explicit intention of not being a Christian symbol. As Coski points out, the creator of the flag said he wanted it to be "more Heraldric [sic] than Ecclesiastical" ( here ). Coski further documents how according to Miles the diagonal cross was preferable because “it avoided the religious objection about the cross (from the Jews and many Protestant sects)”

Please disregard the last paragraph of the article, a disclaimer which was added by the "Reuters Fact Check team."

Fact check: The origins of the colors and symbols of the Confederate flag.

I think the biggest thing to remember is that it is impossible to separate the confederate flag from what it symbolized. First, it symbolized a nation at war with the United States of America. Second, it was co-opted as a symbol by groups who taught hate and tried to maintain society based on such hate.

Whether the colors or the patterns are pretty is irrelevant.

When those states seceded, the country ceased being the "United' States of America. It became the Union which held the seat of the federal government, and those states who broke off and formed their own confederacy.

While the Confederates shelled Ft. Sumpter first, most history books won't tell you the reason that happened: They did that in order to obtain a vantage point to create an opening in the Union blockade, which was impeding free trade to the South.

To believe the Civil War was entirely about "slavery" is a misconception.

 

[Crepitus]

Put away everything you've been taught about American history for a mere moment and consider this: There are stark similarities between our own U.S. flag, and what people believe to the archtypical "Stars and Bars" Confederate flag. Both are red, white, and blue, and both have stars. Although the current U.S. flag typifies the unification of 50 states, the 13 stars on the Confederate flag represented those states which defied at that time, an oppressive federal government.

That's where the similarity of the two flags ends. The ones flown during the Confederacy also had the Christian image of a cross, while the one we we fly today, don't. An interesting notation about the cross, is the orientation of the cross on the flag..

"The claim states the blue cross represents the Christian cross of Saint Andrew. In reality, the flag’s design explicitly sought to avoid ecclesiastical meaning, according to Kaye. In the book “The Confederate Battle Flag”, historian John M. Coski explains that the cross was turned diagonally with the explicit intention of not being a Christian symbol. As Coski points out, the creator of the flag said he wanted it to be "more Heraldric [sic] than Ecclesiastical" ( here ). Coski further documents how according to Miles the diagonal cross was preferable because “it avoided the religious objection about the cross (from the Jews and many Protestant sects)”

Please disregard the last paragraph of the article, a disclaimer which was added by the "Reuters Fact Check team."

Fact check: The origins of the colors and symbols of the Confederate flag.

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A. What kinda fresh nonsense is this?
B. Looks more like a union jack.

 

[ReinyDays]

There were a hell of a lot of Scots in the South at that time ... but y'all say that's not the Cross of St Andrew ... well, I guess you'd know more than my cousin's babysitter's boyfriend's aunt ...

 

[fncceo]

The Swastika was an EARLY christian cross found in the caves of rome.....and surrounding area. VERY EARLY cross----it was also a recurring motiff on Hitlers boyhood catholic church.

It was important in Navajo culture as well ... still a few "swastika bridges" in the New Mexico/Arizona area ...

I never realized The Navajo traditionally made bridges out of concrete? How good were there consumer electronics?

 

[ReinyDays]

I never realized The Navajo traditionally made bridges out of concrete? How good were there consumer electronics?

Of course they did ... what did you think they made their bridges out of in the early 20th Century? ... buckskin? ...

 

[fncceo]

I never realized The Navajo traditionally made bridges out of concrete? How good were there consumer electronics?

Of course they did ... what did you think they made their bridges out of in the early 20th Century? ... buckskin? ...

Maize

 

[whitehall]

The confederate flag only existed for four years. The flag that flew off the stern of slave ships for the better part of two hundred years was the similarly appearing Brit Union Jack still in use today.

 

[gmeyers1944]

Fuck the confederate flag and all it stands for.

Miss Scarlett is not amused.

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Frankly my dear I don't give a dam!!

The word is spelled damn.

 

[cnm]

The Nazi Swastika was aesthetically pleasing

To whom?
British royals?

Hindus