Question:
What is with the leftist attacks on the Confederate Flag and Southerners in general?
2011-03-18 15:21:44 UTC
And do you think they would do this if people who celebrate their Southern heritage mostly voted liberal?
I think it is just more of the liberals' 'divide & conquer' politics.
Liberals are famous for cultivating special interest groups to their cause (blacks, gays, enviro-whackos, etc.)

Liberals are too stupid to know that Southern pride crosses ideological boundaries and that every time they trash the South, they lose voters.

They also display a general lack of knowledge about the causes of the 'Late Unpleasantness'. They just go on the 50 pages of liberal, P.C., revisionist history that gets taught in our public schools. They don't know that to get the real scoop, they must read the books that were written in the 1800's before the spin-doctors got to them.
Thirteen answers:
2011-03-18 15:25:25 UTC
The political Left follows whatever the Jewish owned media tells them to do, like and listen to. What they're being instructed to do now is love the blacks and minorities and punish the white man.
D
2011-03-20 22:30:38 UTC
Confederate flag = flag the South used when they attempted to break apart the union. It is basically viewed as a divider between states. That's the last thing we need nowadays.



Slavery was also supported by the South during that time period, so yes, a black person waving the flag is viewed as odd no matter where you live.

What attacks on southerners? Maybe attacks on Southern senators who give their states a bad name (with all the fidelity and whatnot).

But in my experience southerners are VERY friendly and have a pretty decent reputation on the mid atlantic coast.
PatrickLB
2011-03-19 21:34:28 UTC
I'm a Reagan Conservative and I despise the Rebel Rag, and every corrupt thing the CSA stood for...slavery, treason, and civil war.



I'm very well acquainted with causes for the Slaver's Rebellion, because Confederates were very clear (at the time) what the war was being fought over. Read the secession declarations of Southern states and documents such as the Confederate Constitution, and the Cornerstone Speech.

The Lost Cause Myth...the South was defending the Constitution, and states rights is itself historical revisionism. The South seceded because they could no longer control US politics and meddle in the affairs of territories, and newly-formed states. THAT is what the Republican party was founded to oppose, and that is what the war was fought over...the South's systematic suppression of states rights in the West.



The only states rights issue of concern to the South, was the protection and expansion of slavery.

"The South fought on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about. I never heard of any other cause for quarrel, than slavery"...John Singleton Mosby...CSA.



Your post supports the erroneous view that Confederate Heritage, is the same as Southern Heritage.

There were a lot of Southerners who opposed secession, and fought against the CSA.

Read the book "Bitterly Divided, The South's Inner Civil War", by David Williams.

Think about it...what kind of people would base their entire "heritage" on a four year period in which they provoked a Civil War, to perpetuate African slavery.



Equating the Battle Rag with the Swastika is not stupid...it's dead-on accurate. Again, READ the Cornerstone Speech by CSA Vice President Alexander Stephens. It sounds a lot like Hitler ranting from a balcony in Munich.



The Confederacy was an act of domestic terrorism, and deserves to be remembered as such.

The South now controls Conservative politics in this country, so now the Lost Cause Kool Aid stand is once again, open for business. Well, this Conservative refuses to drink from that pitcher of swill.

Southerners don't want to believe that their ancestors slaughtered 360,000 of their countryman, so they could maintain the institution of African slavery...too bad, cause that is exactly what happened. The modern culture that tries to twist that history around, in an attempt to justify the CSA is a despicable, right wing, anti-American culture, that needs to be opposed, whenever it is encountered.

You can't be a true American, and support the CSA. The CSA tried to destroy this country. It represents everything that is un-American, and against our Constitution.
?
2011-03-18 22:25:25 UTC
I'm a southern liberal and I hate the confederate flag. It is a flag of traitors.



Why did the South leave the union?



MISSISSIPPI

"In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.



Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun."

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html
2011-03-18 22:23:41 UTC
The Confederate flag doesn't have a good reputation.





Omg, yesterday I was at a gas station and saw a black lady waving a Confederate flag. Even my Conservative friends thought it was weird lol
?
2011-03-18 22:31:38 UTC
people like you love to throw around words like heritage and pride.



I suppose it would also be ok for a person of middle European descent to fly a swastika flag. No, because the swastika is offensive to so many people, just like the confederate flag is....for what it represents.



It's ancient history folks, you lost, get over it
No Mas Republicano
2011-03-18 22:25:48 UTC
I've traveled all throughout the deep south. It's is not the people that are bad, it is the ideas.



The people can be awesome! I love the Mississippi gulf coast, Lousianna, Florida Panhandle, etc.
Allison
2011-03-18 22:25:25 UTC
People who wave the confederate flag are usually fat redneck racists. Nobody hates the south and people usually love southern hospitality.
"Anyone Else, 2012"
2011-03-18 22:25:20 UTC
They don't fall in line with liberal beliefs.
2011-03-18 22:23:59 UTC
Why does anybody care about something that happened in the 19th century?
?
2011-03-18 22:24:03 UTC
The South Carolina declaration of secession from the Union had EIGHTEEN references to slavery.



EIGHTEEN.
2011-03-18 22:22:52 UTC
its okay to celibrate and wave mexican flags
2011-03-18 22:23:38 UTC
just showing how compassionate and tolerant they really are.


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