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originally posted in:TFS The Floods Sanctuary
11/8/2013 4:26:46 AM
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[quote]Confederate Flag was a symbol of racism, slavery, and discrimination[/quote]
And what about the American, British, Spanish, Dutch, French, and even African nation's flags? What do they represent then? Yes, the Confederacy advocated slavery but less than 1% of the population/army owned slaves and funny thing is that many freed blacks VOLUNTARILY served in the Confederate military.
The Stars and Bars needs to stop being taught as a sign of hatred and instead shown as a symbol of a culture. But alas won't because it would interfere with the Liberal political machine brainwashing everybody into thinking southerners are racist bigots.
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[quote]1%[/quote] Lool
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I love when Americans post like this, it's so cute.
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Because I'm not a yes man to society? Sorry that you have to follow whatever your government says to you.
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The confederacy didn't just advocate slavery, its principal purpose for being was the protection and expansion of it as an institution.
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"We're not racist, some of our best soldiers are black."
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no, it's principal purpose for being was because they felt they were not fairly represented in congress. slavery was only one issue of many. the history got written by the victor. Abe Lincoln and his cabinet were a bunch of racist mofos who in fact were not abolitionists until mid way through the civil war and were not in favor of equality for the freed men. that's a documented but little taught fact. however, because europe was about to intervene in the american civil war, he turned it into a moral crusade against slavery to prevent their involvement and it worked since at the time, the euros had already banned slavery as immoral. and he still let northern states keep some slaves after the war.
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Oh, man, it's adorable that you think that. Yes, its principal purpose was that they didn't feel fairly represented. ...Because they couldn't push their agenda to expand slavery to the west. Civil wars can be complicated things both in cause and effect, as the American civil war is, to a degree, but the very simple fact of the matter is that the central breakdown of national unity occurred over the two different regions of the country valuing an economic commodity differently. And, so, the confederacy was formed to fight for the continued economic expansion of the south, by ensuring that they could preserve and expand the institution of slavery. It's just completely disingenuous to say that the civil war wasn't fought over slavery - it might have been fought over a different issue if there happened to be one, but it wasn't, it was over this one.
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[spoiler]less than 1% of the population/army owned slaves and funny thing is that many freed blacks VOLUNTARILY served in the Confederate military. The Stars and Bars needs to stop being taught as a sign of hatred and instead shown as a symbol of a culture. But alas won't because it would interfere with the Liberal political machine brainwashing everybody into thinking southerners are racist bigots.[/spoiler] so much wrong its not even funny
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Fine, maybe more that 1% owned slaves but the amount of individuals that did own slaves was a very small percentage of the population.
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Once again very incorrect. A little under 1/2 of the population was enslaved in the south. That means upwards of 35% all the way to 49%. Also there were approximately 2.7 million slaves living the the south at the time of the civil war. Slaves were HUGE in the south because their entire economy revolved around them
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I'm all for bashing liberals, but the confederate flag does represent "The south will rise again" at the moment and that stuff.
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it's the CSA battle flag, not even the normal CSA flag. of course it stands for battle.
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Orrrrrrrr because the South was affiliated with this flag and racism, it will continue to be affiliated with it until the end of time This is why Kanye is such a fucking moron The most racist of racists will die laughing at this idiot; just because you take an infamous symbol, make it "your own", and flaunt it like it never meant anything doesn't mean it's meaning will change That's like if I went around and started saying n*gger all day every day, just because I keep saying it doesn't mean all of a sudden it'll stop being used as a derogatory term, not anytime soon anyways That's why this is a shit attempt to say "oh I'll take this flag, make it 'mine', and everyone will thinks its all fun and games lol" It's not; that flag has had such negative meaning for so long, just because he takes it for a brief period of time and claims it means something else doesn't mean it'll mean something else And then he has the nerve to call one of his pieces "New Slaves" If that didn't sound anything more like young blacks being "enslaved" to this new rap media bullshit then I don't know what does
