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Originally Posted by Seaver
Really? Cause I've seen it flown from Minnesota to Boston to even, yes, California. And the majority of those I talked to were not racist.
That flag that to you says slavery says to us states rights. You can NOT tell us what it means to us. You can NOT tell those that fly the flag WHY they fly it. You can only say what it means to YOU.
I dont believe in slavery, I'm in no way shape or form racist. I do, however support those that fly the flag as a symbol of their heritage or of, yes, states rights. What that flag may mean to you personally I dont care, it's your right to interpret that how you wish. Claiming those that fly it are either racist or traitors is however over the line.
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I don't think it's over the line because, regardless of how you or I feel about it now, I consider the people who flew that flag during the civil war to be traitors to this nation because that's how I define citizens who take arms against the lawful government of our country in order to dismantle it. I may like the cause (such as Iraqis taking arms up against Saddam, or as sob pointed out, George Washington against England), but that doesn't prevent me from considering such people as "traitors."
I certainly didn't say what that flag means to me.
It doesn't mean
anything to me. I never even thought about it before this thread.
I asked plain as I can make it up above for someone to explain what it stands for if it didn't stand for the right to own slaves and/or the heritage of a group of citizens who attempted to break away from the United States.
You don't want to answer that, fine. But your statement of "it's heritage" is vague and doesn't tell me much. It's like a container that needs to be filled with meaning before I can understand what you are trying to tell me. Heritage of
what? All heritage means is something that you inherited from your ancestors. What did you inherit from your anscestors that you find so compelling that
the rest of the country doesn't seem to buy?