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Originally Posted by thinkxingu
Singular people don't decide what a symbol or flag means, history and association do. Case in point: Coke used to use the swastika in the early 20th century as the symbol had been around for a long time before Hitler "hijacked" it.
The Confederate Flag just simply doesn't represent "southern heritage" anymore, just as the swastika no longer represents long-life, symbiosis with nature, etc.
It is America, though, and they have a right to fly it.
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Not disagreeing, but should an association or any group get to re-write history?
The swastika was intentionally adopted to represent the NAZI agenda of evil and domination, it was not cast as such after the fact. Where as the confederate flag was never intended to be the flag of slavery, it was the flag of southern heritage.
As is too often the case, associations hijack history and re-write if for their own purposes. This is the case throughout history. How many died and suffered in the American revolution, how many died and suffered in the religious crusades, ETC, Etc, etc. Human history is marred by war and slavery and suffering, it is in no way unique to the southern United States/Confederate States, we just paint it that way for the goals of the current association(s) that want something (usually MONEY)
Best advice over such matters is to ignore it, tolerate it, have an "honest" discussion about it, but rarely does that happen as we seem to have little capacity to ignore that which we dont like, no capacity to ignore anything, and there is almost no such thing as honesty in such matters, only agendas and goals to acquire power and money.
The civil war ended over 150 years ago, I think there are much more current matters of concern to worry about than a single flag flying over someones property. Slavery in the US is not likely to reemerge and quietly overtake us. .