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Maybe on the government level, not so much among citizens around here. I'm still seeing them on vehicle front license plate holders, flying from people's porches and the Macon County Courthouse still has the First Confederate Flag flying above the War memorial.
Poor democrats. The flags may be gone, but so are their slaves.
ReplyDeleteNow that reminds me of Bill Clinton's comment about how a few years earlier Barack Obama would have been serving coffee in the White House.
DeleteThe Confederate flag isn't any less popular, it's just being scrutinized by the "Woke left" (all 75 of them) and our local/state government is bowing to their demands under fear of being in the spotlight.
ReplyDeleteWhat they need to do is stand up, show some backbone, and tell these fucks to back off or be arrested. And if they refuse to do that, remember them on election day.
There are a number of quiet folk, who aren't particularly "woke" who feel no empathy for the defenders of the stars and bars. It's seen as a symbol of racism pure and simple.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that the left gets to decide what something means? And even if so, so f-n what if that what YOU think of when you see it! I don't get to interpret some words and other symbols as I see fit or what they mean to me, the left says that is not correct.
DeleteI recall and see the various versions of the Confederate flag as it was interpreted during the 60's and 70's eras, specifically rock and roll where it is seen as a symbol of being a rebel...you know that long haired rock and roll liking youth.
So FU and what it means to you, it means something else to some of us.
And you are supposed to just deal with it in this country, but we have let the left brainwash so many people that individual freedoms and rights are being lost.
Gary, what I was saying is that there are a number of conservative folk, definitely not lefty's, who see the stars and bars as racist. If the”FU and what it means to you” was aimed at me, you don't know what it means to me. I was relating the sense I get from a lot of the conservatives I know.
DeleteI stopped having one on my vehicles when a kid in Kentucky was shot for flying the Battle Flag. For a while, I had either a Stars and Bars tag or the new (at the time) Georgia Flag tag based on the Stars and Bars because so few know what the Stars and Bars flag is. Now I display nothing.
ReplyDeleteI've seen the Battle Flag all over, including places where I'm sure it wasn't displayed say 50 years ago. Like in rural-ish upstate New York a half hour outside of Buffalo. I see it as a hearty fuck you to the race/victimhood narrative pimps who are destroying our society. (And who are the greatest victims ever?) Doesn't mean I'm correct, but doesn't mean I'm wrong either. As a nonwhite I don't see it as a symbol of racism, but of course people are free to pin whatever meaning they want to it. "After all it's a free country." (Man, sometimes I crack myself up.)
ReplyDeleteHey Mike, thats where I hail from! Boofaloo! Northern suburbs (Cheektavegas is all Polacks).
DeleteAnd yes. This whole matter is shyte. I live in TN now, might start hanging the Tennessee Battle Flag on my front porch just to make a point! Sadly, my neighbors wouldn't mind in the least!
I’ve never felt a desire to fly that flag.
ReplyDeleteI DO NOW!
In the past week I've driven through; WVa,KY, southwest Virginia, TN, NC, SC, and Ga. In order of predominance: US flags, Trump 2020 flags, Confederate flags. Not a day has gone by that I haven't seen plenty of both.
ReplyDeletewaiting for ben matlock to be cancelled, the flag is in nearly every single episode.
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