But the Confederate flag was the chosen symbol of an uprising against the US that resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Americans. You can try usurp it to mean Southern pride, but so long as you still call it the Confederate flag it's still treason against America

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434319)

The symbol can mean whatever you'd like it to, but that doesn't erase it's history.

Nobody is trying to rewrite the history of the American flag by seperating its imagery from military service. There're trying to amend it to mean a country worth fighting for

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434334)

so to a vet it could mean military, etc. and to a hoodrat it could mean oppression

so to kaepernick it means oppression, and not honoring veterans or however else a vet might see it. fine. so the confederate flag can represent southern pride to the southerner, the other associations notwithstanding.

possibility two is that a flag represents multiple things to everyone and some people choose to respond to particular associations or prioritize some associations over others.

so kaepernick prioritizes the oppression view. fine. southerners can prioritize the southern pride view of the confederate flag.

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you're not giving equal treatment here if you say that we have to respond to the confederate flag in one particular way because of one of its particular associations, but don’t give the us flag the same treatment.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434346)

Don't rewrite history and claim all the sudden that you're the non-violent one.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434522)

But tell me against about the moral high ground of burning every home in the South to the ground, Yankee scum.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434687)

The South is luckily that they weren't roundly massacred after the war

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434699)

No wonder the fucking North keeps shoving its shit policies down the South's throat today; it's all they ever knew.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434979)

See, that's the thing. You cant just choose to not recognize your government. I'd love to stop paying taxes, but I'd go to jail

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434997)

That's why it's a little troubling that libs all seem to see America as the enemy, and cheer it's downfall.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434586)

No.

Thank,

Thnak

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31435003)