re: Does confederate flag offend you?

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I'm assuming he's talking about black people. You think black people (as a group, I'm well aware there are images of black folks with the battle flag on the internet) had to be told to dislike that flag? I support anyone's right to display any flag that they choose but that's ignorant.

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Yeah, I do. The outrage over that flag is pretty recent over it’s long history of being displayed. The outrage stems from people who’ve created it over the flag because of an infinitesimal number of people from hate groups who aren’t even a blip on the radar in representation of people in the south who misused it for their own purposes. The overwhelming vast majority of black people living today have absolutely ZERO personal experiences coming from a hate group waving that flag and doing harm to them.

However, if that’s what we are going with now to indicate vile representations of hate, then you better be careful because the US Flag was also flown by Klansmen in their marches and demonstrations.

Are we ready to cast that one into the fire as well?