re: Does confederate flag offend you?

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My thoughts exactly. It isn't worth it to deal with the offended idiots of our society.

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yep. just shake your head and move on. What is the point of ruining YOUR day by worrying about what someone you don’t know, or even if it is someone you do know - if it doesn’t affect you?

If someone wants to fly a rebel flag, so what? someone wants to fly a nazi flag? so what? Would you rather those people HIDE what they are? You want them to go underground where you can’t tell who they are?

Worry about yourself.

In my teens I had a confederate flag beach towel. Never got a comment or a weird look about it back then.

Society chose to place taboos on items and speech very quickly in the early 90s.

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As proud as I am to be from Louisiana,

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we aren’t proud of you

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Only when they were told to view it as such.

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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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This is also dumb. You should absolutely be considerate of other people. What you should avoid is worrying about people who are unreasonably or intentionally offended, or choosing not to do something you know to be right because of concern of what others think.

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As long as people aren't physically harming others and are just minding their own business, then there should be no problem at all with flying the Confederate flag, whether you agree with it or not. If they bring it into a business/establishment that does not allow that, then of course it's a problem. But otherwise, I don't think people have to have any obligation of being considerate towards other's opinions. I know the people who rip down the flags and break people's shite aren't considerate, so why should those flying the flag be?

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It needs to go. Trashy.

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having kids out of wedlock needs to go. its trashy and actually has real life consequences. unlike a flag.

Everything people do in life is at least partially due to how they want others to perceive them. What you wear, what you drive, how you cut your hair, etc. People present themselves based on how they want to be perceived. Whether fair or not, the Confederate flag has earned a certain perception. Those who still clothe themselves with it do so in full knowledge of this perception of what it says about them. Either they invite that perception because it matches how they want to be perceived, or they want the attention it draws for whatever reason. No one is just clothing themselves with the stars and bars anymore just cause “it looks cool” any more than people do with a swastika or a black power fist. These are overt symbols that people clothe themselves in while fully aware of the messages and perceptions they project.

No. People who rail on how offended they are offend me.

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Does confederate flag offend you?

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Definitely not... but it gives me a pretty solid idea about the person flying it.