re: Uh oh, some people in Georgia are offended over a license plate

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Residents of GA can do what they like, but personally I would like people to have the option to indicate how exactly fricking stupid, backwards and racist they are.

That way I can avoid them.

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And you get that from a plate meant to commemorate the sons of Confederate Veterans? Does a plate commemorating the Daughters of the American Revolution also offend you?

Huh? If there is one role for that flag, given it was the Battle Flag, it would seem pretty logical that it would be in association with those who fought behind it on the field of battle, that's it. Whether that's the Sons of Confederate Veterans, at a museum, a Confederate graveyard, or battlefield, those are the places it belongs. Neither it nor the American flag belong at a Klan rally or Nazi event, inappropriately used in association with a bumper sticker on someone's vehicle, or colored in school colors and displayed at a sporting event, yet we can't stop any of them from using it or misusing it. The only true role that flag DOES have is as a matter of history in association with men who died under it, because of course..... It's a flag purely designed for the sole purpose of helping soldiers to differentiate one side from the other on a smoke filled battlefield instead of confusing the old CSA National Flag with the Union Flag, which were quite similar and often mistaken for one another by both sides rallying to their respective flags. If anything, perhaps thanks are in order that it replaced the old National Flag on the battlefield from the Confederate side and the Union side as well.