Should The Conferdate Flag Be Banned Entirely?

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Don't be so sure. In the movie, the General Lee's scrubbed clean. Nothing on top.

Warner Bros already distanced themselves from the controversial flag:

http://screencrush.com/dukes-of-hazzard-flag/

Walmart, Amazon, Sears, eBay to stop selling Confederate flag merchandise

So, more demand (and cash) for those who will sell it.

No, they represented the conservative wing of the Democratic party, which was mainly in the south. After all, how would you explain the pro-civil rights wing of the Democratic party if those sheeted bigots had represented all Democrats? It wasn't under a Republican administration that the Voters Rights act was established.

In for a wing, in for a party. I agree, however, that the northern Democrats tolerated the southern Democrats for the sake of remaining relevant to and somewhat successful in national politics. But, that fact, on its own, is also pretty damning. They sold out to the southern Democrats in exchange for winning nationally.

Thank you! I swear I get nauseous sometimes at these relentless appeals to history, in order to say "well this is the racist party", instead of critically assessing the particulars of what is going on right now. Either primary party ends up looking just as bad anyways.

I'm not sure I'd say the the Confederate flag was the symbol of the KKK, they might of utilized it but they also have extensively wrapped themselves in the flag of United States as well. The Klan started out in the South after the Civil War but it spread much further than that, northern racism deserves much more attention than it gets. I doubt many people think of the cross as being associated with the Klan and fwiw far more people have suffered under the cross than the Confederate battle flag or the flag of the United States. That's my problem here, why is it that the Confederate battle flag is singled out as this evil thing when evil has been committed under every flag? The whole work in progress thing doesn't really excuse the crimes which continue to be committed even today, someone could just as easily say the Confederacy was a work in progress and that eventually it would reformed itself as well. You can agree or disagree with that last part there, my point was that you can pretty much justifiably take issue with almost any flag or symbol so why is one okay but not others? You can defend all of them, the confederate flag to many in the South is a symbol of Southern pride to recognize their ancestors that fought and died under it( something like 30% of white men in South at the time died, most of which didn't own any slaves) So while the flag of the US might mean something to you, it might mean something entirely different to someone else and I can't say Native Americans for example have any less of grievance towards the flag of the US than blacks might with the Confederate flag. I actually think there are some colleges around the US that are trying remove displays of the US flag because whatever group there sees it as a symbol of oppression.

I don't care if they want to display the flag or not, there is a process to removing it in SC state law and if that's what the people want then by all means but I think its silly the demonization that has happened and the lack of consistency.

thought this was an interesting blog on The Hill

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/s ... -flag-goes

Tomorrow, if it's still being aired like the cable guide says it is, I am going to watch Dukes of Hazzard when it comes on TVland just to see if the Dodge Charger still has the name General Lee and the stars and bars on top or if they somehow edited it out, or, if they stopped airing the show altogether.

Great, where am I going to buy Pantera merch now?

Or did they sell out the southern wing because civil rights was the right thing to do?
Incidentally, not all young southerners agreed with the sins of their ancestors - Bill Clinton had made his hatred of racism abundantly clear.

DailyCaller.com: "Confederate Flag Campaign Pins of Both Clintons' Pasts" (June 23, 2015)
( http://www.dailycaller.com/2015/06/23/c ... tons-pasts )

DailyCaller.com: "Flashback: As Governor, Bill Clinton Honored Confederacy on Arkansas Flag" (June 20, 2015)
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You know the weird thing about the conservative faithful is that they attack an enemy that doesn't exist.

I mean instead of knowing their enemy and hitting it at home and/or where it counts. They rail at something that liberals don't even recognize instead.

man you love to move the goalposts don't you?
How is "not being racist as*holes" selling someone out?

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So Clinton played on the sentiments of his constituents. But how does that compare to his actions?

Pandering is now a virtue?

I still don't see the big deal.

The Stars and Stripes are worst if you use oppression, bigotry, and violence as your yardstick.

Hell, the US went to war and killed far more people than the CSA ever did back in 2003 with Iraq, and for arguably worst reasons (they got banned weapons!). So, you can't really use "the US has changed" as an argument.