re: So FS Southside school board...

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Most of what Dale posted is complete bullshite.

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Is it?

I mean if it is, it should be easy to prove as being such.

Get to it...

Dale's post is a non sequitur.

A non sequitur is a logical fallacy where a stated conclusion is not supported by it premise and therefore the conclusion is arbitrary/irrelevant.

Dale uses this strategy a lot in defending MA and bashing DVH.

I think we need to start referring to him as "non sequitur Dale".

Myth: I totally read the entire diatribe

Fact: Didn't Read, LOL

I have to admit that my first thought was "that is still their flag/mascot??" Rebels/the rebel battle flag is deeply connected with modern day racists. So many people keep reaching to the past to defend it. I mean, my family comes from a communist background (I'm half Russian). I sure as frick don't feel the "right" to defend our defunct (supposedly) union/gov.

I haven't had to live around anything or anyone involving this in a while and it's just not a part of my life. It's now hard for me to understand this honestly and I'm thankful for that. If people want their children to understand their heritage, then teach them. There is zero need to try and carry on anything that is modern day associated with hate, though.

I have ancestors who were confederate soldiers and they were sharecroppers, not slave owners. Still, frick the confederate flag. It's not the right symbol to use to honor my ancestors. They fought for a traitorous nation that lost, and thank goodness they lost.

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why not? i wonder how many rebel schools are left in the state? my old school is one, so i'm grasping for straws just to keep it.

the word rebel isn't (or wasn't) inherently a racist thing so just change it up.

also, the arrow is fine he should represent.

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I graduated from Johnson County Westside in Coal Hill. We were also the Rebels, but our mascot was quite literally a copy of Ole Miss', just dressed in white instead of red. Very Colonel Sanders/oldschool southern gentleman looking. I highly doubt a town that small has been persuaded to change.

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Is it?

I mean if it is, it should be easy to prove as being such.

Get to it...

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The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution. The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress. In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation.


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