You will no doubt be unsurprised to lean that, when I was a considerably younger man, my humor skewed in the direction of satire. But not the rapier-like sort I aspire to (and very occasionally achieve) these days. The object was to destroy any opposing views, and the weapon for that was a meat axe. Or a club. I might, in those days, have parodied a defender of the Confederate flag by having him say “Calm down, it’s just a symbol. Like a swastika. And it’s not like anybody has a problem with those.”
But not now. For one thing, I’m no longer a fan of the bludgeon. For another, it wouldn’t be a parody, because Dr. Ben Carson, being perfectly serious, just pretty much said that.
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You know, in a certain sense the Confederate flag is even worse than a swastika, since the hooked cross had other meanings prior to the Nazi appropriation of it. The Confederate flag has only ever been a symbol of white supremacy and treason.Report
Damn, all those people who think the Confederate flag is THE symbol of rebellion are going to be filled with sorrow when someone informs them otherwise.
Great job folks, I see more flags hoisted than ever these days. Hell, they are even selling bedsheets with the flag. A flag the size of a bed. I mean really, damnit. Peeps are fornicating and creating babies under this thing.Report
Hell, they are even selling bedsheets with the flag. A flag the size of a bed. I mean really, damnit. Peeps are fornicating and creating babies under this thing.
Well, they’re trying to make a blanket statement about the issue, one that covers their ass.Report
Three fifths of babies, anyway.Report
Uggh, those are both bad
5 points from Ravenclaw for each of youReport
Cmon Oscar. That’s pretty heavyhanded. You didn’t chuckle? A little bit?Report
oh no, groaners bothReport
Must be weird for some of them to have anything other than a white sheet.Report
The Confederate flag has only ever been a symbol of white supremacy and treason.
I think, technically, the actual Confederate flag has only been a symbol of *slavery* and treason, and the thing everyone is *currently* flying (Which is, IIRC, a misshapen battle flag) is just currently white supremacy and slight treason.
I.e., there are two different things here, the actual Confederacy, and the Confederate flag *revival*, in the 1960s. Both of them are evil, but they’re technically *different* evils.
This is almost the opposite direction of what happened with the swastika. It’s someone using a symbol of great evil for…slightly lesser evil in basically the same vein.
The real problem, of course, is that a good section of the US population has decided it *wasn’t* evil. None of it.
But I think this all raises an excellent question of why those people hate America?Report