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If You See Someone With a Confederate Flag on Their Car or on Their Clothing, Do You Automatically Consider Them Racist?
- Thread starter Gaf Zombie
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Here is the answer you're looking for. Idiots around the world have adopted it as a sign of rebellion against their governments.
Why is the Confederate flag flown outside the US
The Confederate flag has found a home in several other places around the world — some of which are well aware of the negative connotation the flag holds.
www.businessinsider.com
I grew up in the southern United States, I went to high school with these people, I know them well. They are absolutely %100 racist. They will squirm like you wouldn't believe when confronted about it, but use the n word like an adjective in casual conversation if they feel they are in safe company.
That song isn't about praising George Wallace, they don't praise George Wallace at all in that song. Anyone thinking that they do has missed the point
Unfurling 'Sweet Home Alabama,' A Tapestry Of Southern Discomfort
More than 40 years after its release, Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama is still one of the most recognized rock anthems celebrating the deep South. It's also a song with a complicated legacy.www.npr.org
Yeah, I don't buy it.
Ed King said:
Oh shit, I better go take the flag down.
I was surprised, I had spent my whole life in GA, though in the Atl suburbs, then for 4 years ('11-'15) lived in Altoona, PA and the amount of Confederate flags I saw flown on the backs of trucks or those beat up old Ford/Chevy station wagons was a sight I hadn't seen down south since the late '80s - early '90s. I know it's more of a rural / suburb difference but I had guess I had this false perception that Rednecks of the north would be all Union prided or whatever lol
Rather unlikely these people have been living under a rock or isolated from the world for decades. It's like Germans sporting a Nazi flag in their cars or houses. People should know better of what the flag represents: hatred and racism, nothing else.
I voted no. Outside of the US some people without context just consider it a cool American flag. It's a biker thing here among the guys riding American brands too.
I voted no because I think the usage is a little more complex than something like the Swastika, but after thinking about it in the 2020 context I should have voted yes. At this point with all of the public backlash there's probably something going on if you continue to fly/use it.
That being said there was definitely some innocent (ignorant) usage in the past. The Dukes of Hazzard defence has been driven into the ground, but there were a lot of regular people who simply viewed it as a regional symbol. Just look at the people who were cool with putting the symbol away once the discussion entered the mainstream and they were educated on it.
That being said there was definitely some innocent (ignorant) usage in the past. The Dukes of Hazzard defence has been driven into the ground, but there were a lot of regular people who simply viewed it as a regional symbol. Just look at the people who were cool with putting the symbol away once the discussion entered the mainstream and they were educated on it.
Also note that if 99.9% of people sporting the symbol are racist, it's a pretty fair fucking assumption to make even if there is a 0.01% who aren't. Particularly for minorities for whom this could literally end up as a matter of life and death for
Yes. I thought I explained this better.
You can accidentally do a racist thing without realizing it. I doesn't make you A racist.
I define someone who is A racist as someone who believes a race is inferior/superior and consistently believes that.
I've definitely done or thought racist stuff accidentally. I'd bet you have have to. It's hard not to in our society.
Racism isn't necessarily an active thought process. Someone can be racist without any direct racist actions as long as they indirectly support and signal boost racist causes. Putting up a Confederate flag is an inherently racist action - and even someone ignorant to it's history is still pushing a racist ideology. They are racist.
This is a very good post. People are products of their environments and unfortunately due to the history of our country, there is quite a sizeable environment that is conducive for such a blatantly racist symbol to be adopted with no issue. Throughout the years its true meaning has been obfuscated with purposefully misleading education and rhetoric. That doesnt change the fact that flying that flag in of itself is racist, though its up to the individual to come to that conclusion themselves. I think the true determining factor to find out if someone flying it is truly racist at their core and not just accidentally racist is if they decide to double down on the flag and Confederacy after having it explained in a respectful manner. Those people are not worth your time
Why would you have put one up in the first place though?
Giant US flag waving from the back of their stupid pick-up truck? Yes, complete racist and pos. A US flag on a house or mailbox, etc. for the past 20+ years, that's fine and we shouldn't get to the point where we're thinking that and lumping the two together.
How is there even a need to make an assumption? They're broadcasting it right there in plain view.
Plenty of racists don't consciously think of minorities as inferior, but they'll go way out of their way to defend racist policies and to defend a way of life that can only exist by putting down minorities. Having racist impulses ingrained alone might not make you a racist, but only if you're willing to actually confront and question them rather than sticking your fingers in your ears and refusing to listen when anyone tries to point it out. And honestly, if anyone is still proud of the confederate flag in modern America, than even if they're "ignorant" it's only because they're actively refusing to listen
Yes I do. I live in the rural south however so I literally see shops selling the damn thing down here. People have it on their trucks, in their yards, and walk around with tattoos of it. I'm black so they don't say anything to my face but I know enough white people to know the second black people go away things get racist as shit.
Yes lol. No one is that ignorant that they dont know it stands for racism. And if they deny it, they're full of shit.
This is a very elementary school way of looking at racism. It's a way of looking at racism that lets you excuse racist people because, deep down, you know that's not what's in their hearts. They're good people!
I'll just say going to high school in the south was weird and that I was friendlier with certain people than I should've been, but based on certain experiences 10-15 years ago I can't fully say yes. But now, definitely yes.
Interesting, I always thought they were rampant all over the U.S. considering I have seen them pretty much everywhere I have traveled but I haven't spent much time at all in the northeast and only been to New Jersey once for a quick conference.
Perhaps this was your point, but to me racism is nothing if not pure ignorance. I really liked how Disco Elysium handled racism.
The only excuse today is being ignorant of racism which should be no longer acceptable.
It's also a reminder that the south didn't exactly "lose" the war.
It's also a reminder that the south didn't exactly "lose" the war.
yes and they are trying to provoke.
just like this one idiot who wore an NRA shirt at my local gym. the heightened look in his eyes suggested to me that he was on the ready to pounce on anyone who would accost him about his wardrobe choices.
just like this one idiot who wore an NRA shirt at my local gym. the heightened look in his eyes suggested to me that he was on the ready to pounce on anyone who would accost him about his wardrobe choices.
I can't speak for my wife, but I've lost family members who died for this country. It's a way to honor their memory and remind me why I continue the struggle against Trump and his oppressive actions.
Our organization we proudly fly the flag in our logos/shirts/banners, its a way to take it back from the racists and nationalists.
