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re: Iowa Homeowner Says His Swastika & Confederate Flags Are Not Racist
Posted on 12/16/19 at 7:48 pm to Placebeaux
Posted on 12/16/19 at 7:48 pm to Placebeaux
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Hell, General Patton himself said we were fighting the wrong army.
It gets even better when you start reading about the circumstances surrounding his death.
Fast forward 80 years, Hillary would have had him commit suicide with a double tap to the back of his dome.
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Posted on 12/16/19 at 7:50 pm to nola000
The guy painted a nazi flag on his home as well as multiple confederate flags and wears some ridiculous confederate flag style cowboy hat thing. He is clearly either a racist or trying his hardest to appear like one for some reason.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 7:52 pm to nola000
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If a guy says he's not a racist, then he's not a racist. That's the end of it. Who are you to tell him who he is when he clearly stated that he's not.
Man, I hope that this is a troll and not your actual belief. There is no way anybody is this fricking stupid.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 7:54 pm to nola000
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If a guy says he's not a racist, then he's not a racist.
Lol. So I could go up to a black person and call him the n word but then just say I’m not racist and it makes everything ok?
Posted on 12/16/19 at 7:54 pm to HeadSlash
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88
Such edge
Posted on 12/16/19 at 7:56 pm to nola000
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Other people need to stop making assumptions. If a guy says he's not a racist, then he's not a racist. That's the end of it. Who are you to tell him who he is when he clearly stated that he's not.
Are you retarded?
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:00 pm to theantiquetiger
Beyond being crudely drawn images on forgotten desks, swastikas have an unexpected place in the University’s history — the 1933 Gumbo, unapologetically protruding from the yearbook’s hardcover and dotting every page alongside athletic teams and fraternity classes of bygone days.
Adolf Hitler seized the German chancellorship in March 1933. His Nazi Party blackened Europe with total war and ethnic cleansing, leaving Germany a divided land of smoldering debris and bomb craters. Despite this, the University’s 1933 yearbook heavily featured swastikas, the feared symbol synonymous with the Nazi Third Reich.
The yearbook’s theme was the ancient-Native Americans of the University’s burial mounds. Many Native American tribes throughout the Mississippi River Valley historically used the swastika to decorate objects like clothing and pottery before Hitler’s ascension to power.
The Gumbo’s editor at the time, Marian Mayer Berkett, in a valiant act of defiance, kept the swastikas in the yearbook. Berkett, who was Jewish, would not allow Hitler to claim ownership of the symbol and re-appropriate its meaning. The swastikas did not endorse the Nazi Party, but paid homage to the University’s Native American ancestral roots.
“Because it really wasn’t the same symbol, I persisted,” Berkett said in an interview with LSU Libraries in 2004. “It was part of the artwork which I was trying to represent.”
Civilizations around the globe used swastikas before the Nazis. In Sanskrit, the word swastika means “well-being”. The symbol is commonly found in southern Asia, symbolizing eternal cycling in the Buddhist faith. Even the U.S. Army is not without the swastika’s presence. The 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army used a yellow swastika with a red diamond backdrop as its symbol until the 1930s.
“It was identified with other things besides Hitler,” Berkett said.
Adolf Hitler seized the German chancellorship in March 1933. His Nazi Party blackened Europe with total war and ethnic cleansing, leaving Germany a divided land of smoldering debris and bomb craters. Despite this, the University’s 1933 yearbook heavily featured swastikas, the feared symbol synonymous with the Nazi Third Reich.
The yearbook’s theme was the ancient-Native Americans of the University’s burial mounds. Many Native American tribes throughout the Mississippi River Valley historically used the swastika to decorate objects like clothing and pottery before Hitler’s ascension to power.
The Gumbo’s editor at the time, Marian Mayer Berkett, in a valiant act of defiance, kept the swastikas in the yearbook. Berkett, who was Jewish, would not allow Hitler to claim ownership of the symbol and re-appropriate its meaning. The swastikas did not endorse the Nazi Party, but paid homage to the University’s Native American ancestral roots.
“Because it really wasn’t the same symbol, I persisted,” Berkett said in an interview with LSU Libraries in 2004. “It was part of the artwork which I was trying to represent.”
Civilizations around the globe used swastikas before the Nazis. In Sanskrit, the word swastika means “well-being”. The symbol is commonly found in southern Asia, symbolizing eternal cycling in the Buddhist faith. Even the U.S. Army is not without the swastika’s presence. The 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army used a yellow swastika with a red diamond backdrop as its symbol until the 1930s.
“It was identified with other things besides Hitler,” Berkett said.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:01 pm to BRgetthenet
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It gets even better when you start reading about the circumstances surrounding his death.
What brand of foil?
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Fast forward 80 years, Hillary would have had him commit suicide with a double tap to the back of his dome.
Retard alert.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:03 pm to nola000
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I fly the stars and bars on my house. Somebody like you might look at it and think I'm a racist.
Nobody would think that.
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If a guy says he's not a racist, then he's not a racist. That's the end of it. Who are you to tell him who he is when he clearly stated that he's not.
You’re being ignorant.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:03 pm to nola000
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The Gumbo’s editor at the time, Marian Mayer Berkett, in a valiant act of defiance, kept the swastikas in the yearbook. Berkett, who was Jewish, would not allow Hitler to claim ownership of the symbol and re-appropriate its meaning. The swastikas did not endorse the Nazi Party, but paid homage to the University’s Native American ancestral roots.
Not a single swastika in the yearbook is a nazi swastika
And no one knew the nazi party was evil at that time. Hitler wasn't even named man of the year yet.
This post was edited on 12/16/19 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:04 pm to FightnBobLafollette
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Are you retarded?
You make legit window lickers look like Einstein, Blob
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:05 pm to fr33manator
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You make legit window lickers look like Einstein, Blob
How cute that you think you look like Einstein.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:09 pm to nola000
Why do people keep acting like the fact that hitler didn't invent the swastika is some secret knowledge most people aren't aware of? While a good piece of knowledge to have to understand history and how symbols can gain power, it has no bearing as to the current meant of the symbol in today's culture.
I guess we should start calling out all the people who display the cross - you know, because it was a symbol of cruelty, torture and death originally, the fact that it stands for love, forgiveness and salvation now shouldn't matter.
I guess we should start calling out all the people who display the cross - you know, because it was a symbol of cruelty, torture and death originally, the fact that it stands for love, forgiveness and salvation now shouldn't matter.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:11 pm to FightnBobLafollette
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How cute that you think you look like Einstein.
Stop upvoting yourself, OweO
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:13 pm to OweO
You can sell me on the confederate flag, but mixing those two probably means you're a big ol racist. That being said, freedoms a bitch.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:15 pm to fightin tigers
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Why did you only chose those 3 flags?
Well, there's only space for 4. I didn't actually put the flags up. The original owner did, I just left them up because I haven't got the replacements I want yet. If it were up to me I would have chose different flags, probably only keeping the Bonnie Blue. It was obvious that the original owner chose those for Flags because those were the four flags that flew over this territory. He could have also obviously flown the Spanish and French flag but that predates the other four so I imagine he just chose the four most recent. Pretty sure he didn't choose the Louisiana state flag because the guy was from Texas.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:16 pm to nola000
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Doesnt matter what other people think. Other people need to stop making assumptions. If a guy says he's not a racist, then he's not a racist. That's the end of it. Who are you to tell him who he is when he clearly stated that he's not.
Yes, there is technically a small chance he's just pushing the boundaries of the 1st Amendment because he loves this country and her freedoms so much. There's a far, far bigger chance he's a racist a-hole.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:17 pm to Philzilla2k
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Stop upvoting yourself, OweO
Another window lickers that thinks they look like Einstein.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:17 pm to OweO
He’s an idiot and she’s an idiot.
Posted on 12/16/19 at 8:17 pm to Sneaky__Sally
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The guy painted a nazi flag on his home as well as multiple confederate flags and wears some ridiculous confederate flag style cowboy hat thing. He is clearly either a racist or trying his hardest to appear like one for some reason
Probably.
Idiot obviously used the wrong swastika if he was trying to make some point other than MUH Nazis.
I guess I just don't care because I'm never offended by anything, ever. Literally nothing. I don't really care what other people do if it doesn't directly affect me.
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