[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I')f you bothered to follow this story you would know that the confederate flag had basically died 100 years ago, after reconstruction, and was only resurrected in the late 1950's and '60's. It resurfaced in response to the Civil Rights Movement, meant to trick and terrify integrationists and their good works.

[KaiserJeep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'W')rong Six. You must get your news from FOX TV.

If you bothered to follow this story you would know that the confederate flag had basically died 100 years ago, after reconstruction, and was only resurrected in the late 1950's and '60's. It resurfaced in response to the Civil Rights Movement, meant to trick and terrify integrationists and their good works. The argument that the flag represented States Rights was/is pure hogwash. That was also made during the Civil Rights era. The flag was/is about slavery--plain and simple. The flag was/is a constant reminder of unimaginable cruelty of slavery. It was a wound to every black person who had to look at it. I knew you were a warmonger, but had no idea you were a closet racist also.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KaiserJeep', 'T')hat must be why these two Democratic racists chose that flag for their 1992 presidential campaign button:

[SeaGypsy]

Why would someone who has no problem with Islam, which right now today enslaves thousands of black Africans daily, in one form or another, have a problem with Lynch Mob Confederate Flag Wavers (relatively very enlightened people by comparison)?

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[Cog]

Well this certainly didn't take long. I wonder what group will come up with the definition of what constitutes a right wing hate group. The SPLC perhaps.

I wonder if being a NRA member will put me on that list of haters. Hopefully. Obviously anyone who owns a gun hates black people. Just like anyone who flies a Confederate flag can't wait to lynch a black man. One wonders where exactly the outrage is about blacks killing other blacks weekly in the big cities. A number far larger than the nine killed by a lone wolf nutjob.

If you think the leftists are done exploiting this current crisis, you really haven't been paying attention. They will come after the churches and gun owners next. Those two groups represent the last stand against the coming tyranny.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/pos ... extremism/

House Democrats are urging the Obama administration to issue an "updated assessment" on the dangers posed by "violent right-wing extremist groups" within the United States and to bolster the Department of Homeland Security’s division for evaluating home-grown threats, according to a letter obtained Thursday by The Washington Post.

The letter — which is being circulated by Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) — follows discussions among dozens of House Democrats about how to respond to the mass murder of nine black churchgoers last week in Charleston, S.C., both legislatively and across the federal government.

According to an analysis by Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal and advocacy organization that tracks hate activity, the man accused in the shooting, Dylann Roof, 21, was active in an online white supremacist community.

The letter, addressed to President Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, suggests that DHS "allocates a disproportionate amount of money and manpower" toward Islamic extremism while "failing to devote adequate resources to violent right-wing extremism."

[SeaGypsy]

I was deliberately taking the extreme example & the worst obvious tag. Relating to all Muslims having to carry a stain from what maybe 1% of them actually do. If 1% of southern white rednecks were acting out like this it would be a lot more obvious.

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[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'W')rong Six. You must get your news from FOX TV.

If you bothered to follow this story you would know that the confederate flag had basically died 100 years ago, after reconstruction, and was only resurrected in the late 1950's and '60's. It resurfaced in response to the Civil Rights Movement, meant to trick and terrify integrationists and their good works. The argument that the flag represented States Rights was/is pure hogwash. That was also made during the Civil Rights era. The flag was/is about slavery--plain and simple. The flag was/is a constant reminder of unimaginable cruelty of slavery. It was a wound to every black person who had to look at it. I knew you were a warmonger, but had no idea you were a closet racist also.

[sparky]

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What is wrong with being a racist ,
honoring one ancestors is a fine sentiment
as for battle flags , here is the battle jack of the Ukrainian rebels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_N ... russia.svg

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'I') was deliberately taking the extreme example & the worst obvious tag. Relating to all Muslims having to carry a stain from what maybe 1% of them actually do. If 1% of southern white rednecks were acting out like this it would be a lot more obvious.

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[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'B')y the way, calling Sixstrings a racist is a bad thing and you should feel bad for posting such a thing.

[Cog]

Here is the deal SixStrings. I probably disagree with you on most things political. You call yourself a centrist, which based on your desires, is probably not where I would place you. But either way, I can at least have a civil argument with you. Anyone who knows Sixstrings, knows he is NOT as racist. To suggest otherwise is a personal attack and is expressly forbidden by the COC of this board. Not that that COC is being enforced by any moderator, even one posting in this thread. But I digress.

What I warned about in my first post was this: The Republic is dead. Congrats on that progressives. Enjoy your new masters.

I was roundly ridiculed for that statement but we have seen it played out in this very thread. Unless you get fully on-board with whatever left narrative is the flavor of the day, you will be attacked. There is no compromise on their part. Unless you fully ingest the Kool-Aid of left thinking, you are worse than the most rabid Rush Limbaugh, Neo-Nazi, KKK-loving asshole.

You are trying to trying to have a reasonable discussion on why Southern heritage is important to people in the South. But, as you can see, reasonable discussions are verboten on this subject. If you think conservative Republicans hate free speech and compromise, wait until you have the other side fully in charge of the agenda.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')hat's going too far though is ebay banning things. They have banned confederate flags, but yet still sell nazi swastikas.

[Pops]

Like forcing cake decorators to bake homosexual cakes.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'L')ike forcing cake decorators to bake homosexual cakes.

[Subjectivist]

I don't think anyone should force EBay to sell anything, however EBay is jst a clearing house. Individuals and merchants make sales and EBay just facilitates the transactions.

Ebay is free to conduct business however they wish, but bowing to political whims on this issue while continuing to offer Nazi memorabilia is schizophrenia at best, blatant pandering at worst.

[Pops]

I think it is disingenuous to pretend that there are no racists, likewise to pretend any of us have no bias. I think we are all biased and that it is probably instinctual to an extent, mommas think their baby is just the cutest thing ever because if they didn't they would probably not put up with the racket.

I know from experience it is hard to tell just how prejudiced we are as individuals. I didn't realize I had any racist feelings at all until my daughter dated a black guy for a while in high school. I didn't flip out but I was uncomfortable at first and it surprised me. In rural CA there weren't a lot of black people when I was young, the classes were for the most part, whites, Mexicans and Okies. So I didn't have much personal experience but my folks were from the south on my dad's side and they were typical southerners and obviously some south wore off on me.

In that vein, I think getting yer panties in a knot because civil rights activists want to remove icons of past oppression — it isn't "history" — should be a fairly obvious sign, but not that "progressives have won and the republic is dead", but perhaps that that your ideas lost.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'L')ike forcing cake decorators to bake homosexual cakes.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')t Florida Confederate memorial, giant flag still flies, defiantly so

“I don’t know how it just happened overnight,” Wilson said of the backlash against the flag, adding that he intended to keep selling flags at local festivals as a sideline. “I'm not going to let them control me,” he said.

...

For Lambert, the flag still represents a proud history, an era symbolized in that moment in “Gone With the Wind” when Scarlet O’Hara defiantly grabs a handful of earth and shouts, “I'll never be hungry again!”

“It’s the emotional, guttural affinity one has, what’s coursing through your veins, the sweet hills of Alabama or Virginia: your lineage,” Lambert said.

He wishes opponents would come see the memorial before dismissing the flag as part of the shooter’s rampage.

“I’d like them to read the plaques and get a sense of what it’s all about. It’s not hate,” he said. Referring to South Carolina defendant Dylann Roof, he said, “They’re giving him ownership of the flag, and all of the politicians are getting on the bandwagon because it’s easy to do.”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-confederate-flag-tampa-20150626-story.html#page=1

[onlooker]

This is really out of control. First of all much more important things on the plate of humanity then by-gone feuds between Confederates and Union. The act of one looney does not define the South anymore then the act of one defines the North. But of course the MSM is only too glad to broadcast this nonsense and get our minds off of the real problems. As the British say "Stay calm and carry on" or in this case get hysterical over nonsense and carry on.