if you can prove the US flag was specifically commissioned to hold on to slavery then make the case
moondog Send a noteboard - 26/06/2015 05:56:34 PM
South Africa re-designed their own flag when they abolished Apartheid, so if you want to make the case the US flag has outlived its purpose, by all means let's have that discussion.
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racist mass murderer finally brings about the end of the US Civil War 150 years after the fact
- 24/06/2015 11:41:08 PM
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White supremacists use the cross and US flag at least as much: Should we ban those "racist" symbols?
- 25/06/2015 08:09:30 PM
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The Democratic party has a worse history of racism than the army of the CSA. Let's ban that!
- 25/06/2015 11:19:09 PM
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Not really, since the CSA was IN the Democratic Party then and is in the Republican Party NOW
- 26/06/2015 11:16:30 PM
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I never accused FDR of preparing for war, just of trying to provoke one; which only makes it worse
- 02/07/2015 10:20:37 PM
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Implying FDR simultaneously disarmed AND incited war insults your intellect, not his
- 04/07/2015 02:21:07 AM
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the question is: why do you want to continue to worship the symbols of slavery and racism?
- 26/06/2015 12:06:06 AM
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You are such an ignorant fuck *NM*
- 26/06/2015 02:09:29 AM
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now that's the kind of well-reasoned and thoughtful response i've come to expect from you 
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- 26/06/2015 05:54:05 PM
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- 26/06/2015 05:54:05 PM
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No, the question remains why the cross, US flag and Confederate Battle Flag=racism
- 26/06/2015 11:28:22 PM
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The US flag was used to commit herindous war crimes against the Americans in the South
- 25/06/2015 09:54:33 PM
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But we won, so we get the final say on what is good or bad.
- 26/06/2015 02:52:41 PM
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And we get to fly our flags in protest of the war of northern aggression *NM*
- 26/06/2015 03:27:59 PM
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if you can prove the US flag was specifically commissioned to hold on to slavery then make the case
- 26/06/2015 05:56:34 PM
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The accusation is yours: Prove the Confederacy was specifically commissioned for slavery
- 26/06/2015 11:44:59 PM
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You should read The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader if you truly believe that. *NM*
- 27/06/2015 05:56:33 AM
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Read Lee stating his hatred of slavery AND secession, and love of the Union, if you do not
- 30/06/2015 06:01:01 PM
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Lee is one man who didn't hold office in the Confederacy, and he's an exception.
- 04/07/2015 08:12:10 PM
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"a separation from the North-was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of ... slavery"
- 01/07/2015 09:55:33 PM
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Wikipedia ALSO has a whole ARTICLE on the wars causes; odd, when they could "just say, 'slavery.'"
- 01/07/2015 11:58:09 PM
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Lets play which General shuld be honored and you take Grant and I will take Lee
- 02/07/2015 01:53:29 PM
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To be fair, the scorched earth terrorism was not Meatgrinder Grants idea, but Shermans
- 04/07/2015 12:33:41 AM
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Honestly, the fact of the matter is we shouldn't ban anything
- 26/06/2015 02:38:07 PM
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the only thing being banned is the display of such items at state/public buildings
- 26/06/2015 05:51:04 PM
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Again, state rights is why "if you dislike it, LEAVE!" is largely viable in the US
- 27/06/2015 12:02:32 AM
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The Stars and Bars was the Confederate NATIONAL flag, but otherwise, yeah
- 26/06/2015 11:57:08 PM
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