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re: Does confederate flag offend you?
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:46 am to nineteeneighty
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:46 am to nineteeneighty
Couldn't give two shits if someone has/flies one or not. People are such pansies.
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Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:48 am to UKWildcats
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The problem is the flag was created by, was, and still is used almost exclusively by extreme trash or outright racists and hateful mfers in order to officially represent an area that was perfectly fine with everything they were.
FIFY
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:48 am to WDE24
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I’m not personally offended, but I assume the person displaying one is either a racist or extremely ignorant (most likely both).
And before you say anything, I don’t even own a confederate flag or feel that strongly about it one way or the other.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:50 am to nineteeneighty
Nah. Not much offends me.
I do, however, think you have to be a pretty big idiot to display pretty much anything on your personal property in the year 2020. I don't need some thin skinned piece of shite breaking windows or keying cars because they got their little feelings hurt.
I do, however, think you have to be a pretty big idiot to display pretty much anything on your personal property in the year 2020. I don't need some thin skinned piece of shite breaking windows or keying cars because they got their little feelings hurt.
This post was edited on 10/24/20 at 10:51 am
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:50 am to kingbob
I am not offended by it. I am also not offended when people that have moved to this country fly their Mexican, Irish, English, or wherever they used to live flags. I probably see more Puerto Rican flags than any other place in central Fl. and they are our territory.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:51 am to WDE24
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With that knowledge, what purpose does it serve to display it? Everyone that does knows exactly the message that it sends regardless of attempts to justify it with other purported motivations.
Now apply this thinking to EVERYTHING else in your life. You will soon find that you can do nothing but stand still naked. And even that will offend someone.
basically, what i am trying to say, is if you worry about what other people think about what you say or do, uh.... well. you live a sad life.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:51 am to nineteeneighty
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Does confederate flag offend you?
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:53 am to nineteeneighty
and i still have no idea what you mean by being offended. i think the only people on here who would actually be offended by it are black posters
being offended isnt the same as simply making your own assumptions about people and their attitudes towards certain things when they display it. like, i wouldnt make my neighbor take it down but i would definitely form an opinion of him
being offended isnt the same as simply making your own assumptions about people and their attitudes towards certain things when they display it. like, i wouldnt make my neighbor take it down but i would definitely form an opinion of him
This post was edited on 10/24/20 at 10:54 am
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:53 am to beerJeep
quote:This makes no sense. Someone being understandable and reasonably offended by a confederate flag doesn’t apply to everything I do in life. This isn’t even close to a slippery slope or a particularly nuanced situation.
Now apply this thinking to EVERYTHING else in your life. You will soon find that you can do nothing but stand still naked.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:55 am to Darth_Vader
Dude is clearly at a historical marker, wearing period clothing, which absolutely falls under the exception. I’m referring to the people who still fly it on a flagpole in front of their house, off the back of their boat, or on their vehicles. I don’t have a problem with it, but nearly every person I have met still doing so this past decade has been either a seriously racist individual or just a pure f$@king edge lord, neither of which are people with whom I’d like to be associated with or who are particularly pleasant to spend time with.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:55 am to nineteeneighty
When Ole Miss & Ole Miss fans would wave it or display, because it was Ole Miss.
This post was edited on 10/24/20 at 5:12 pm
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:57 am to nineteeneighty
No. But it is a flag of losers and doesn’t need to be flown
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:57 am to WDE24
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This makes no sense.
certainly it does. i
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Someone being understandable and reasonably offended by a confederate flag doesn’t apply to everything I do in life.
ohhh you’re special.
I didn’t mean the confederate flag. I mean’t worrying about offending other people. Stop being dense.
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This isn’t even close to a slippery slope or a particularly nuanced situation.
letting how others view what you do affect what you do is absolutely a slippery slope. What someone else thinks should have zero impact on your decisions.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:58 am to UKWildcats
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The problem is the flag is used almost exclusively by extreme trash or outright racists and hateful mfers
You know. It’s funny. I got a battle flag from the state fair back in the mid 70’s to hang on my wall. Why? Because I liked the whole rebel thing. Not the CSA thing, but like rock and roll, FU, I’m a rebel kind of thing. It was only later in HS that I began to understand the flag’s significance on the battle field and why it was created in the first place, and at no point did it seam to be some vile thing, just a historical flag, that’s all, and such was the flag to most people UNTIL.....
Until people began to prescribe something to it that it never meant to anyone I knew, and then it became a loathsome flag with hateful connotations attached to it, but ONLY when they gave it that meaning. Up until that point, not one person thought of it as some vile flag.
Just like Confederate memorabilia or historical figures. They were never vile or represented hatred, UNTIL YOU WERE TOLD THEY REPRESENTED THAT.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:58 am to LegendInMyMind
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I do, however, think you have to be a pretty big idiot to display pretty much anything on your personal property in the year 2020. I don't need some thin skinned piece of shite breaking windows or keying cars because they got their little feelings hurt.
My thoughts exactly. It isn't worth it to deal with the offended idiots of our society.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:59 am to nineteeneighty
Does it offend me? Personally, no. I believe people have the right to fly whatever flag they want.
But do I support it? No. First of all, the confederacy fought against the US and then was absorbed in 1865. As proud as I am to be from Louisiana, which was once a confederate state, I am an American first.
I do know this. People who say "its not about hate its about heritage".. If you ask them what do they mean by that exactly, more than likely they will not be able to provide you will an answer that makes sense.
But do I support it? No. First of all, the confederacy fought against the US and then was absorbed in 1865. As proud as I am to be from Louisiana, which was once a confederate state, I am an American first.
I do know this. People who say "its not about hate its about heritage".. If you ask them what do they mean by that exactly, more than likely they will not be able to provide you will an answer that makes sense.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:59 am to fightin tigers
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It helps me identify idiots.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 10:59 am to Mike da Tigah
quote:i can think of some people who probably did
Up until that point, not one person thought of it as some vile flag.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 11:00 am to WestCoastAg
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i can think of some people who probably did
Only when they were told to view it as such.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 11:00 am to Mike da Tigah
oh boy
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