Message from @Onlyinmizzou
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egalitarians, primarily.
I suppose is their driving philosphy.
anyway, the confederate flag is a special case
not really.
everything will be a special case in its own unique way if you go that route.
because it was pretty limited in its importance before the 1950's and 60's when it was used as an anti-school integration symbol
ok well if you wanna wholeheartedly defend a symbol coddled to represent white supremacy that's your call. there's plenty of southern symbols and points of national pride that aren't specifically designed to represent rejection of integrated academia
I said ''I'm certainly not a southerner, nor am I defending their culture. But that is how culture and history gets destroyed."
I was just using it as a relevant, modern example, of how culture gets destroyed.
Since you seem to deny that
if you rehabilitate a cultural artifact to make a contemporary political statement then that artifact has grounds to be destroyed
that's how it works
says who?
that's how society has tended in most cases I can think of
the swastika was left alone until hitler used it
sounds like a pretty spooky belief to me
I suggest you think that one out.
no whats spooky is thinking that shitting on a political symbol is literally cultural erasure
"shitting on"?
it's banned, they are removing statues of slave owners.
of course anderson cooper was supported by slavery inheritance, but they don't seem to care about that.
banning the sale of the symbol is a lighter form of an outright ban, sure. but it has the same effect in the long term.
if it's illegal to sell, then producers will not make them. then they dwindle away
yeah again this really is just not even close to the cultural erasure you're pretending it is
the flag was barely in use after the civil war anyway until it became a symbol of pro-segregation and anti-integration
okay yeah the confederate flag has absolutely nothing to do with culture, you're right. it actually has much more to do with space aliens and gardening.
no it actually has to do with opposition to school integration
are you retarded?
I'm not making this up
google it
that's what YOU want to make it about. it's a symbol, which means it's open for interpretation. but what isn't debatable is that it's a symbol of a culture.
what do you think the swastika is a symbol of (hitler's swastika)?
no
its actually what the south wanted to make it about
because they flew it at george wallace rallies, ant-integration rallies, etc
and your avatar is a communist flag being hoisted after conquering and murdering the germans ???? is that what communism is about?
hammer and sickle was around and was/has been used by communist groups around the world
the soviet union was one of them
the confederate flag is actually used all around the world, believe it or not.