re: Ole Miss removes state flag

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Truly one of the dumbest things I've seen posted on TD

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No,

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While slavery has existed for 1000's of years, no other country based it on race or used such violent means to sustain it.

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is the dumbest thing that's ever been posted on here.

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The confederacy was founded because of disagreement between states and federal government, and those disagreements include slavery but also many others (taxes).

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Read my posts earlier in the thread. It's straight from the horse's mouth where those are primary reasons for seceding.

But I'll ponder your hypothetical. So what if a German came up to you and said, "well those disagreements with the rest of the world did include wiping out the Jews, but also many others, like our territories being stripped from us." You'd look at him like he was insane. You are defending why the South fought for slavery when they were pretty clearly already on their way out the door by the end of the century.

Coon apparently used a black female writer (Sierra Mannie ?)from the the DM to attack conservative student senators. She started a social media attack on pro flag senators and basically stopped any major public dissent thru character assassination.

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You can't tell me with a straight face that the first thought that comes to your head when it comes to the Confederacy isn't slavery.

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It really isn't. I think of the slave practices that went on in the Caribbean and South America that made American chattel slavery look like a damn tea party by comparison.

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Look kid, you can't just pick and choose the parts of a culture you like to keep, and throw out the parts you don't like. Thinking like that is incredibly destructive.

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Well do you ever see your neighbor mowing the lawn and think to yourself "Working on Sunday? I really should kill him." If you're a Christian (unless you're truly fricking nuts), you pick and choose too.

I acknowledge what happened in history, but I don't choose to use my culture's frick-ups as a badge of honor. I'll address them if they're brought up, and then move on. I choose to focus on the positives, and the Confederacy and slavery was not one of them. The music and food it brought out though, that will stand the test of time in a way the Confederacy never had a chance to do.

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Look kid, you can't just pick and choose the parts of a culture you like to keep, and throw out the parts you don't like.

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Sure you can. Cultures do it all the time. Tell that to modern day Germany with regards to the Nazi's during WW2. Political extremists from conservative religious Republicans to politically correct liberal Democrats spend their very political lives doing just that.

People who compare the Confederacy to Nazi Germany show they care more about identity politics than history, and frankly bore me.

The articles of secession were 19th century political fundraisers. Share croppers don't finance new nation building and war's. People use these as "proof positive " the South left to preserve slavery and that's not being intellectually honest. The US Constitution protected the institution & in 1860 it was mathematically impossible to amend. If the South doesn't secede, slavery dies a much slower death,but a less costly one.

I'm not really comparing it. Just make it the point that countries whitewash their cultures as they see fit all throughout history. It's what idealogues do on both sides of the political spectrum.