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Post by icansleep on Jan 27, 2008 17:59:41 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on the Confederate Flag (a/k/a Rebel Flag)? Is it still an indicator of racism in your view?
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 27, 2008 18:01:05 GMT -5
I see this one going swimingly. Post at your own peril, I have no humor today.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 27, 2008 18:01:11 GMT -5
I don't really care about it. I mean, I kind of had to get use to it, seeing how I'm in Oklahoma, and thus, the South.
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Post by EvilMasterBetty, Esq. on Jan 27, 2008 18:02:26 GMT -5
Me personally, no, but that's all I can really say without violating the rules.
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Post by biafra on Jan 27, 2008 18:02:51 GMT -5
Depends on it's usage.
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jan 27, 2008 18:03:03 GMT -5
I don't really care about it. I mean, I kind of had to get use to it, seeing how I'm in Oklahoma, and thus, the South. Except when it comes to the Senior bowl for NCAA and OSU is 'North' and OU is 'South'.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2008 18:03:20 GMT -5
No...I actually have one hanging in my bedroom. The flag wasn't an object of racism; heck, associating the flag with racism is far-fetched if you only associate it with average southern farmer folk who participated in the war and waved it.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jan 27, 2008 18:03:32 GMT -5
I'm not quick to judge someone based on a flag... that's ridiculous to me.
The flag itself means nothing to me about racism... just the man holding it if he's waving it for the wrong purpose.
I've known white supremacists who like the flag and white supremacists who don't connect it with it at all.
I know people with little to no bigotry in their life about race who are huge fans of the flag as well.
As with most things in life this should be a case to case basis and I feel the flag it self gets a bad rap.
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Post by The Line on Jan 27, 2008 18:05:46 GMT -5
Its kinda become like the Swastika. The symbol itself doesn't mean anything negative, but its just been associated with so many bad things to some people.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2008 18:06:57 GMT -5
Its kinda become like the Swastika. The symbol itself doesn't mean anything negative, but its just been associated with so many bad things to some people. They gotta solve that with the Swastika. Seriously. It's a totally benign symbol, but that's why it was used by the Nazis.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 27, 2008 18:08:14 GMT -5
I've got it under my high school class ring. To me it means nothing racist, however, as a symbol it has been tainted by a million idiots corrupting it, ergo I probably wouldn't display one for fear of being lumped in with those 'corruptors'.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Jan 27, 2008 18:08:48 GMT -5
To keep this short, sweet and as with as little politics as possible my answer is No.
That's not what the flag stood for. Some people used it and still do for that reason, but that's not what it actually means. Those people are just expressing their ignorance in more then one way.
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Post by Ace Diamond on Jan 27, 2008 18:09:51 GMT -5
After much deliberation I realized there's nothing inherently wrong with it, although i can understand why some people would see it differently.
But it definetely wasn't standing for racism, it was standing more for the concept of rebellion.
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Post by Rube on Jan 27, 2008 18:10:48 GMT -5
No, but I understand how people are offended by it.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 27, 2008 18:12:56 GMT -5
As for the Swastika, the symbol means nothing, nothing at all. However, the symbol that the Swastika evolved from, the Manji Wheel, means several things, and all of them are good things.
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Post by Square on Jan 27, 2008 18:15:30 GMT -5
what is it?
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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 27, 2008 18:16:24 GMT -5
Depends. A lotta people use it because they like Lynyrd Skynyrd or something, some, like Billy Idol wore it for a "Rebel" image, some, well we know about that. So for me, I'd rather not bother with it, as it's too misunderstood. It can be taken so many ways.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 27, 2008 18:16:51 GMT -5
The Confederate Flag is the flag chosen by the Confederate States of America(aka the Southern states) during the American Civil War in the 1860s.
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Post by Rube on Jan 27, 2008 18:17:08 GMT -5
Please tell me you're joking...
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jan 27, 2008 18:17:35 GMT -5
Please tell me you're joking... He's not from the States.
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