Your thoughts on the Confederate flag? - Is it racist? Is it not?

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RybenZ999

RybenZ999

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I don't really have as much of an aversion towards it as I do with the Nazi flag. If I see someone waving a Nazi flag, I immediately think "That guy's a hardcore racist" whereas if I see someone waving the dixie flag I'm like "Eh that guy might be racist or just proud of being a Southerner". Though it's pretty hilarious to reply with "farming equipment" to some redditor saying "States' rights to do WHAT?" or "Just like people waving palestinian flags" to "Confederates lost lol". I'm not a Southerner so I guess I can't comment on it. It probably means something to those people, so why try to police it?
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I find it odd to have a great affection for the breakaway state you yourself were never a part of and especially cringe if you’re north of Kentucky. I imagine most do it not to represent the confederacy but because they think of it as being pro southern. I would prefer to see more state flags though. They’re cooler and the well isn’t as poisoned on them.
 
It’s easy to piss people off and I like waving the flag around. Most bikers take it as a flag of rebellion same as the iron cross is a symbol for toughness. People get really heated over a 150+ year war. I’m just racist but I’m not using the flag to hate niggers, I hate them with no colors attached.
 
I have no cultural or ancestral connections to the Confederacy, but I think that it's a nice-looking flag. All the sperging out about it only turns it into a modern day rebel icon. People outside the South and even outside the US have started to use it.
 
Not a flag autist but I think it looks really nice. No nuanced opinions. I don't care what flags people have and that includes the butthole troon flag; they'll just be laughed at.

I've actually got a little project going on in the basement. I've been collecting as many naughty no no flags as possible, including said butthole troon flag. So far, I've got an England flag, a Texas flag, a Gadsden flag, a Soviet flag, and a stolen troon flag. Still trying to track down a good quality Confederate battle flag, an Imperial Japanese Army flag, a Reichskriegsflagge (the coolest Nazi flag), and EU flag, but I don't want to end up on a list just yet. They're all there on the wall when you walk down into the man cave and the idea is to piss everyone off.
 
I think they are cool.
I started trying to grab as many different types as I could when they started banning them.
There were a LOT of Confederate flags.

I wonder if I could get by flying this one now?
It was the flag of the Army of Trans-Mississippi after all.

Then there are the various adaptations that have been made.
This is my favorite:
 
I'm Southern. I have the flag flying in my yard. I feel sorry for people who have a visceral reaction to it and that immediately think of blacks and slavery. I understand it's a battle flag and the most instantaneous thought people have is of the Civil War (or the war of Northern aggression). But for me, when I see it, I think of sweet tea, porch swings, the beach, good ol boys, historical church ruins, okra, little girls in seersucker dresses with giant bows in their hair, gullah negroes, joggling boards, swamps, dog hunting, geechee talk, magnolia trees.... I could go on. It represents home to me.
 
I don’t really judge people when I see it; I think it’s kind of cringe though. The south has like 600 years of history - the confederacy was shorter than your high school career (not if you Stan the confederacy though lol).

I work with a dude who has a battle flag tattoo and exclusively wears confederate or jack daniels related t-shirts. He’s from New England. Looks like a total faggot and gets no bitches.

Edit: to answer the question - I’m wayyyyyyyyyyy more racist than any confederate fan I’ve ever met.
 
I liked its presence in my state flag before it was changed. It represented the War and how we, as a society, proclaimed it would never happen again. It was a reminder to remember all who fought and died in that conflict, whether in the Confederacy or the Union. So it's unfortunate that it's taken on a connotation of racism, thus making it worthy of derision and hatred. It's interesting how the decades after the War saw at least some effort at reconciliation, yet those old wounds have been reopened, and not for the better.
 
It's a cool looking flag.

Understandable that white southerners, who have essentially spent the entire post war period in varying levels of colonization from the rest of the country would feel an affinity towards the last time they had any degree of real agency.

I regard the South as Washington's first modern colonial effort, and if you look at all the places they exported this model to, you see the same proponderance of backwards societies controlled by working with collaborators at the top of the shithole's civic governments and supported by an urban class who want to imagine they are enlightened westerners. And so long as the natural resources flow out, consumption spending flows out, bodies for the military flow out, and the hegemonic culture of the dominant power flows in, all is well.

The only difference is that there is no pity in the eyes of the American for the southerner the way there is for the arab or the Latino. They fought the war, that is their original sin, there can be no forgiveness, and anything bad that ever happens to them is just kharmic retribution for being bad people.
 
I'm not from the south but its a cool looking flag and their battle songs are even more impressive then the unions.
 
It's a nice looking flag. Bought one as edgy teen and have still hanging it around bc it's really a nice looking flag and that's it. Overall the USA have a lot of nice and cool looking flags.
 
White_N said:
It's not racist enough
@RACISM what's your professional opinion?
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It's not even racist and anyone thinking it's linked to slavery (like some people in this thread) are retarded niggers.
Nice enough looking flag. I have fond memories of it from Dukes Of Hazard as a child.
 
Asian tech support said:
Not a flag autist but I think it looks really nice. No nuanced opinions. I don't care what flags people have and that includes the butthole troon flag; they'll just be laughed at.

I've actually got a little project going on in the basement. I've been collecting as many naughty no no flags as possible, including said butthole troon flag. So far, I've got an England flag, a Texas flag, a Gadsden flag, a Soviet flag, and a stolen troon flag. Still trying to track down a good quality Confederate battle flag, an Imperial Japanese Army flag, a Reichskriegsflagge (the coolest Nazi flag), and EU flag, but I don't want to end up on a list just yet. They're all there on the wall when you walk down into the man cave and the idea is to piss everyone off.
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Buy the old flag of South Africa too, that should really piss off people. But buy one without the british flag so you can piss them off even more, like these ones. image_2023-08-26_102503139.png image_2023-08-26_102509889.png
 
If we're tearing down symbols of America's enemies that lost against us, I'd like to see us demolish monuments for Native Americans. I mean, we have to be fair, right?
 
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