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<blockquote data-quote="Ken-1122" data-source="post: 63498743" data-attributes="member: 277047"><p><span style="color: #33332e"><span style="font-size: 10px">To me the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism and white separatism, just as I see the Nazi swastika as a symbol of anti-Semitism. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #33332e"><span style="font-size: 10px">I realize initially the confederate flag may have been about states rights or some other issue, but then the swastika was not initially about genocide against the Jewish people. But during WW-2, when they posted that Nazi flag at the concentration camps, those murderers basically hijacked the swastika to mean what most see it as representing today; and I feel the same for the confederate flag. When Jim Crow, Bull Connor, and the Klu Klux Klan used the confederate flag to represent their cause, they basically hijacked the flag to represent racism and nobody did anything to stop it. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #33332e"><span style="font-size: 10px">I suspect the reason nobody tried to stop it is because those who like the flag agreed with the racist causes it was being hijacked to represent because I can guarantee you, if when the homosexuals began coming out of the closet and demanding their rights, had they attempted to hijack the rebel/confederate flag to represent <strong>their</strong> cause instead of the rainbow flag, there would have been a whole lota objections going on. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #33332e"><span style="font-size: 10px">So IMO anybody who has a problem with the fact that many see the confederate flag as a symbol of racism has nobody to blame but themselves because they did nothing to stop it.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #33332e">Ken</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ken-1122, post: 63498743, member: 277047"] [COLOR=#33332e][SIZE=2]To me the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism and white separatism, just as I see the Nazi swastika as a symbol of anti-Semitism. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#33332e][SIZE=2]I realize initially the confederate flag may have been about states rights or some other issue, but then the swastika was not initially about genocide against the Jewish people. But during WW-2, when they posted that Nazi flag at the concentration camps, those murderers basically hijacked the swastika to mean what most see it as representing today; and I feel the same for the confederate flag. When Jim Crow, Bull Connor, and the Klu Klux Klan used the confederate flag to represent their cause, they basically hijacked the flag to represent racism and nobody did anything to stop it. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#33332e][SIZE=2]I suspect the reason nobody tried to stop it is because those who like the flag agreed with the racist causes it was being hijacked to represent because I can guarantee you, if when the homosexuals began coming out of the closet and demanding their rights, had they attempted to hijack the rebel/confederate flag to represent [B]their[/B] cause instead of the rainbow flag, there would have been a whole lota objections going on. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#33332e][SIZE=2]So IMO anybody who has a problem with the fact that many see the confederate flag as a symbol of racism has nobody to blame but themselves because they did nothing to stop it.[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#33332e]Ken[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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