5 Reasons not to ban the confederate flag

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Gavin McInnes

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I take no advice from the Irish

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America was not built on slavery

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They helped out a lot though

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2. The civil war was not about slavery

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yes it was

Wait.... The government is going door to door and forcing people to give up their flags?

sure, but the norths stance on slavery was ultimately the driving force that lead to seccession. the war was not only about slavery, but its the topic that drove it

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Eh, there were much bigger issues to southern states than slavery that led to the civil war.

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No. It was slavery. It was going to fundamentally affect their wallets and that was the problem. There was no bigger issue than slavery.

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Eh, there were much bigger issues to southern states than slavery that led to the civil war.

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Meh. Read the ordinances that approved secession for the various states.

im not moving for it to be made illegal. i do however think it has no place in at a federal or public level

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Eh, there were much bigger issues to southern states than slavery that led to the civil war.

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Wowzers, when you want to make a whale of a proposition like that, it's usually pretty prudent to try to substantiate it in SOME way. Wtf kind of half-assed obtuse shite is this? Please go read Alexander Stephens' 'Cornerstone Speech,' and then come back and try to tell me and everyone else that there were "much bigger issues." The Confederate $100 bill has a picture of slaves on it, for shite's sake. I don't like wading into all that PC shite, but historical facts are historical facts. Giving these half-assed equivocations about what the war was "really about" makes folks look like intellectually dishonest pussies imo. I've lived in the South all my life, but I'm not going to try to whitewash my state's history to feel better about myself or some shite.

We can't ask the Southern political leadership why they seceded. But we can read the states' declarations of secession.

Here they are:
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I'll give you a summary: There's several things we aren't happy about, but the main thing is the Federal government is no longer protecting our property rights, specifically our slave property. They are misguided in conferring the rights of U.S. citizens to slaves. The Negro's natural place is in subservience to the White race. The federal government no longer serves or respects our most critical right, so we are seceding.

Look, it all sounds crazy in 2015. Alot of water under the bridge since then. But that's why they did it. They just could not imagine the kind of society we have now even barely functioning. Not that we don't have a good bit of social tension. They just didn't see it as a possible alternate.