re: Can Someone Explain Something To Me?

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States can make laws allowing rape because there's nothing in the constitution about it?

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Everyone is born with the right of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness according to the Constitution. States can't create laws that grant people the right to do anything, only to protect those rights they were born with.

Raping someone violates that person's rights. There are laws in place to protect individuals from being violated.

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Before answering, here's a list of statements/concepts that as far as I know, are true statements/concepts. And they are why I do not understand the glorification.

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Next time you ask a loaded question, don’t tell people to wait until you provide your own answers and then argue your own points.

You never wanted explanations. You wanted to explain it yourself.

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So that means that we have a bunch of statues/flags erected to supposedly commemorate people who usurped the constitution of the United States, took up arms against it for purposes few (if anyone) would condone today, and lost.

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Here is the point that keeps you from understanding why people hold on to the Southern heritage of rebellion. The southern states did not take up arms against the northern states. They, according to their constitutional right, seceded from the Union. Abraham Lincoln and the northern states unconstitutionally invaded the southern states in order to reverse that secession. While many southern states seceded over of the institution of slavery, the war was fought because the northern states would not allow the southern states to exercise their constitutional right to secede.

People still hold on to that heritage today because they too feel that the federal government oversteps its authority. They are proud of the heritage of the willingness to fight against what they believe is tyranny from an overbearing federal government.

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s clear of you look at other documents that the militia means the citizenry, but that isn't clear at all from just reading the 2nd.

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The 2a wasrtten under the principle of KISS. A military saying of Keep It Simple, Stupid. The founders believed that fewer words, left less room for reinterpretation.
This did not ta to account for how language and writing styles changed.

The start, saying that a well regulated militia for exmple is very often misunderstood. That part doesnt have anything to do with the actual people, but tells the government it has no right to deprive a state of its armed defenders. (Militia) which King George had tried to do.

But as to what you posted about. A lot of people see the flag as a symbol of rebellion. The very thing this country was founded on.
Being a Native, we wouldn't stand for the govt coming to take our tractors away. But, our tractors aren't living beings either. Even tho some of the reds did take slaves. Of any color.
Thing is you can't judge everybody the same. Yes there are those that hold that flag in the whole the south shall rise again shet, and there are those who see it as the govt can go phuck off or rebel aspect.

I would strongly suggest that you read Shelby Foote’s books on the Civil War .

Didn't read that faaggot's diatribe.

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You never wanted explanations. You wanted to explain it yourself.

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yep, that's why I didn't read it.

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Thanks for answering the question and it's obviously the answer for pretty much everyone else too.

I think it's a completely strange answer—

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It’s not strange at all if you understand human beings. What’s strange is analytical objections of kin based on social pressures. This has only become possible in very recent times with the advent of mass media, and huge portions of society becoming rootless cosmopolitans

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if I was related to Adolf Hitler I wouldn't glorify or justify what he fought for just because I was related to him—but thanks for articulating that it really is that simple for y'all.

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You try to use an extreme example to drive an emotional argument but it’s still all the same. There’s a reason they had to make anti Nazi and holocaust denial laws in Germany and other parts of Europe, because people would be inclined to take the side of their ancestors unless forcefully stopped from doing so. And many still do in secret, but the brainwashing program has been unprecedented and the consequences of being open are severe.

This is very simple human psyche stuff.

You're about 60 years late.

I'd have ignored your little plea for relevance had you not showed your arse so ugly. It's obvious you worked hard for the put-down you so arrogantly pleaded to receive. So you deserve every ounce of 'go to hell' you receive.

If you are trying to bait southerners today into defending slavery, you will be sorely disappointed.

The civil war was not initiated to stop slavery - it was to keep the southern states in the union --- as stated by Lincoln at the time:
= "if I could preserve the union by eliminating slavery, I'd do that -
--- if I could preserve the union by maintaining slavery, I'd do that -
--- if I could preserve the union by having 1/2 slave and 1/2 free, I'd do that"

Slavery was a stain on the entire human race - and had been since the dawn of time.

For you 'feels good' moral midgets, you neglect the fact that the north could have made great strides by just not purchasing all that cotton and sugar being produced by those 'EVIL SLAVERs'.

But they did what humanity always does and follows the mores of the moment and working to make their own lives more productive.

You also forget the fact that slaves were not rounded up and stolen by white people. No - slaves were PURCHASED from other BLACK people. BLACKs could have put a total stoppage to slavery by saying = 'get the hell out of here.' But they did with humanity has always done - worked to make THEIR lives more productive (by selling their own people into slavery)

The list goes on and on - but you are not worth expending the time to write yet another take-down of the mental midgets who think they can score some 'moral victory' by making some poorly thought out 'talking point' put out by the same degenerate thought process (the democrat doctrine) which dominates most political discussion for the past century.

You stupidly ask US to whip our backs in moral umbrage over YOUR 'look at MEeeeee' idiocy.

OUR ancestry WAS honorable - much more honorable than current democrat ideology - YOUR side is the one which CONTINUEs to degrade blacks - you want them to remain in squalor, depending on YOUR 'benevolence' in feeding them crumbs from you miserable welfare state in exchange for their unthinking dependability in producing VOTEs for YOU. You don't give a shite about blacks in general - you are only interested in how you can fool them into continuing to VOTE for your obscenity.

My ancestry came to America as indentured servants in the early 1700s. They have been poor, hard working, loyal citizens from day one. My brother was the first of our line to get to college, probably to even finish high school. I was the second. My maternal great-grandfather was in the Confederate army who was captured and sent to the infamous Camp Douglas prison camp where he almost died from obscenely poor conditions. ------

I could fill a book with the story of my PROUD ancestry - all from below the Mason-Dixon Line - and all of whom I am extremely proud. In my entire life, I have never heard one derogatory comment about blacks from any of them.

Take your ill-informed bullshite and stuff it up your arse.