Confederate Flag

The left lives in an alternate history, and they imagine the Confederate Flag means things it doesn't. Then bans it. The left is often profoundly ignorant of History, or remakes it. Then believes they should legislate based on that re-imagined past. The Confederate Flag exemplifies that. They re-invented the meaning, then use it as a symbol of hate, as an excuse to ban it. But the hate is that the left hates Liberty, Individualism, Traditions, and what the flag really represents. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2022-03-20

The confederate flag means different things to different people. There's the ignorant Democrats view of it, and there's the people who flew it views. The right listens to the informed, the left listens to their side. But the facts are the facts:

• The Flag isn't actually the Confederate Flag, it was rejected as that. It was the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia (under General Robert E. Lee).

• The left is also profoundly ignorant of Robert E. Lee. They might ban it for being that, as a proxy for him. But the truth was, if it represented him -- he had the choice of dissolving and fighting a continued insurrection, as his leadership wanted. But he CHOSE surrender and re-integration into the Union. Something that shouldn't be disrespected.

• During the late 1800's and early 1900's the flag was a symbol of the Lost Cause. The truth that the Northern Carpet Baggers had misrepresented the south, started the war, and exploited them. Whether accurate or not, they saw it as States Rights, individualism, resisting encroaching DC authoritarianism, and Nostalgia for traditional southernism: manners, traditions, honor

• During WWII the flag was used by many units (mostly Southern) over their traditions of fighting with honor. Remember, it represented "rebels" and individualism.

• 1948 the Southern Democrats (Dixiecrats) used it as a symbol of Southern Interest in the Democrat Party. Some of that had leftist/racist undertones. But it was always more complex than just being about race.

• The far left keep misrepresenting the meaning, and offering none of the nuances in their miseducation, until more and more of their base (the least informed left) had negative reactions to the flag, over what they thought it meant. And there is no doubt some White Nationalists did borrow the symbol, just like many leftist misuse the American or Mexican flags.

Conclusion

To the south and in the vast majority of cases, the flag is used by non-extremists as, "a symbol of Southern heritage or history". (That's according to the ADL / Anti-defimation League).

To the ignorant, it is a symbol of hate.

The question is who should we follow? The ignorant bigots? Or the informed non-extremists?

If any abuse of a symbol can pervert it's meaning, then every symbol is suspect. A burning cross was used by white supremacists? Does that mean we should outlaw all crosses?

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🔗 Links

• Wikipedia:Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag

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