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      Hi I grew up in rural Kentucky, currently live in rural Indiana. The flyers of this flag hate gays and blacks, unilaterally.

      Think for a second. Why, if you didn’t want to project the idea that you proudly hate gays and blacks, would you fly this flag? The association is too deep. You can’t fly this flag without very intentionally telling all the black and gay people around you that you hate them, even if “that’s not what it means to you”

      No, everybody flying this flag knows that, they don’t care. They’re cool with the message, they support the message. They just know it’s not a great argument for the media 😉

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      That’s the biggest load of bull I’ve heard in a while and it’s nothing less than apologetic. Most of the people flying these flags today will say the same general shit revolving around “tHe SoUtH wIlL rIsE aGaIn!” Or “SoUtHeRn PrIdE”

      Sometimes things are exactly as they seem and aren’t more than surface deep

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        It’s the dog whistling tactic but using a regular whistle and trying to convince everyone else that we can’t hear it. Idolizing traitors to own the libs. Sad!

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      Independence from what exactly? Hm? What things did they feel they were being oppressed over? Got a list?

      I doubt you have it on hand, so I looked over the secession documents and speeches from Confederates etc. Here’s an exhaustive list of things they wanted to keep that were being “taken from them”:

      • Slavery
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      Ahh so if we just ignore the bad reasons something started and stick to a positive part of a concept, we should all be fine waving Nazi flags too I guess

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        “I know the ‘cunts kicking puppies for four years over a century ago before getting shitheeled into the dirt’ is an unpopular group, but can’t we see their side of things? Clearly their flag means freedom from oppression!”

        Go back to Twitter with your other white supremacist friends.

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            I’m not here to debate white supremacists. I’m here to tell them to fuck off and eat shit. You can go with them if you want.

            Edit: ROFL ah I didn’t even see your username. Fuck off.

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              Honestly i dont know wtf you are talking about. What is wrong with my username? Also what makes you think im a white supremacist?

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                I didn’t realize I was responding to you and not some other anonymous racist apologist, that’s all. And it’s clear what you are by the fact that you’re calling the first comment based despite that it’s trying to separate the Confederacy’s flag from the reality that they SECEDED AND WENT TO WAR OVER WANTING TO KEEP BLACK FOLKS AS SLAVES and their flag represents that.

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                    I guess we read the last paragraph differently, I read “inclusivity and celebrating diversity is equivalent to violent oppression and punishing diversity”, let alone that the rest of the content softens the reality that the Confederacy was all about slavery and white supremacy as a race.

                    Anyway, I’m not listening to myself very well here. Not here to debate white supremacists, bigots, or fascists. Fuck off and eat shit.

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        Comments like this are so disingenuine. Most people don’t like these ideas, not be cause they’re ultra terrible ideas, but just because they feel like they want to be part of a larger group?

        Missing the point that “people” are generally not shitheads and don’t like shithead ideas