re: SC House Votes to remove flag: it's coming down folks

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It's done. Move on with your lives

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I think most of us would love to, but I know in Kentucky alone now they're requesting public feedback on whether to move Jefferson Davis's statue out of the state rotunda, whether to change the state flag because Daniel Boone and Henry Clay being on it isn't "diverse enough" and because they were slave owners, and we're facing the issue of using tax money in a state that's damn near broke as it is to remove Confederate monuments from "public spaces". None of that was discussed with any seriousness until after what happened in South Carolina.

Whether you want it to be or not, South Carolina will be used going forward as an example of how to handle Confederate monuments and things associated with it because of what happened. People are going to have an interest in it and a reaction to it, because it'll likely foretell how other states will handle the same issue.

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Half the people forgot it was there until it became a hot issue again. The other half thought it was still on top of the dome.

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You just described the entire population of those in favor of moving the flag. Those clamoring for its removable don't know jack shite about it, which is why a lot of people have an issue taking it down to appease a bunch of mob-mentality lemmings that will forget and move onto the next SJW/progressive witchhunt next week.

Those wanting it to stay are much more knowledgeable about it and its history. Hell, even most of the media coverage I've seen can't get the details correct

You'll start seeing more people flying the confederate flag now.

this thread gave me a good idea


what if the goverment mandated that everyone in the country be given a pigmentation shot and everyone was the exact same color, let's say, an olive skin color. i wonder what would happen then

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The U.S. federal government is corrupt, evil and oppressive.

Maybe the rebels were just ahead of their time

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well, i know virginia's issues with the union where over state sovereignty, not slavery(mississippi, for example, clearly uses state sovereignty as an excuse for slavery, as it clearly states in its letter of secession). virginia had a lot to lose since they where the most powerful and influential state at the time. slavery wasnt the issue for all states, but was only an excuse for a disingenuous piece of shite like abe lincoln to pull a power grab and centralize the government, big brother at its finest.

R.E. Lee was going to be the commanding general of the union army until virginia decided to fight with the confederacy.

as far as slavery goes, massachusetts was the last state to abolish slavery in 1878, over a decade after the war. abraham lincoln was like everyone else at the time, he thought blacks didnt belong in white society and had plans to send them back to africa en masse before he was shot.

so all this silliness about the rebel flag is fine and dandy, it was only the confederate battle flag because the actual confederate flag looked too much like the u.s. flag at a distance, and could lead to confusion on the battle field, but it has been used A LOT with hate and it doesnt bother me to see it go.

that being said, collectively speaking, we are going full retard on the issue.

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quote: What flag was flown over the slaver ships coming to America? It wasn't the confederate cross or stars and bars. Why don't we remove that flag as well? American flag, and it's not removed because it is, despite its sometimes ugly history, the official flag of this country. The Confederate flag is the flag of an entity that lost the war 150 years ago. And yes, I know the flag the fight is over currently isn't the official flag of the Confederacy, so save it.

You surely cannot be this ignorant.

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Prepare to be amazed

So the battle flag is coming down, what are y'all gonna do when the stars and bars goes up?

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What goes up, in place of the Battle Flag?

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I have no clue, I'm just curious as to how the South Carolina folks feel if they run the stars and bars up the pole

If that's what you think then that's what you think. Also do you live in SC now?

No. Never been. I just think taking down a flag that's part of the south and states history is retarded because it's thought to be an offensive racist flag, which it technically isn't.