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[–] rarely@sh.itjust.works 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Its not racism its history" yeah, a history of racism.

"It was about states rights!" Yeah, the state's rights to own slaves.

"It's a part of our past" yeah, part of our past of being absolute monsters.

"I am still proud of my heritage" I guess you need to have your ass beat into the ground AGAIN, then.

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Saving this comment because they are the perfect response to those ignorant excuses.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I am still proud of my heritage."

Your "heritage" lasted less than five years.

[–] bemenaker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Your heritage is being a traitor and enemy of the US. So I guess you can't go around yelling 'MURICA anymore.

[–] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 1 year ago (25 children)

What I find particularly interesting is that the Confederacy only existed for 4 years, meaning to run around with an Obama flag would more historically relevant than this shit.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I also like how people do it in Northern states. I live in Indiana and I see the Stars and Bars all the time. Sometimes with the Indiana state flag. The fools don't even know what side we were on.

[–] CMLVI@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's all over in WV. The state that seceded from the Confederacy. And then when confronted they say it's their heritage.

Mother fucker, what heritage?

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Racism. that's it. 'Heritage' is code for racism and 'family values' is code for heterosexism

[–] Saneless@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They're proud of more things than just racism. Like poverty

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[–] RaLiChu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

West Virginia was also a labor union hotspot during the 20th century. Were even willing to take up arms against the mine companies when they started getting labor organizers murdered and miners were dying by the hundreds in purposely shitily operated mines to increase profits.

Nowadays. They seem to do everything possible to please the mine companies even if it screws them over.

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[–] SmurfDotSee@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dude, they have people flying them in Canada. I don't think there's much common sense in the folks who publicly display it.

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[–] NotMichaelCera@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Bruh ive seen this shit in CANADA!!!!! like my guy, we beat them well before the damn civil war, we were event THERE!!!!

[–] rumckle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Some idiots even use it in Europe and Australia,

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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago

I've been in fucking college longer than a whole ass country existed LMAO

[–] Chathtiu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What I find particularly interesting is that the Confederacy only existed for 4 years, meaning to run around with an Obama flag would more historically relevant than this shit.

“Historically relevant” or “historically significant” is really tricky thing to judge sometimes. While Obama’s 2 terms as president meant he was in charge for 8 years vs the Confederacy’s 4, I believe the Confederacy and the US Civil War they caused was more historically relevant than Obama’s 8 years as president.

There’s a whole lot of nasty from the war and immediate fall out we’re seeing feeling today.

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[–] pozzy77@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (8 children)

There’s a reason the same people that fly the confederate flag fly a Trump flag. They like things that last a few years and lose

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[–] Saneless@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What did they lose, really? Besides a war, their generals, their free labor, and the value of their money?

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[–] DonRon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pride flag, If your family tree is a circle.

[–] Clown_Tempura@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Evolutionary cul-de-sac.

[–] NotMichaelCera@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

30 people are sore loosers 🤣

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

When the South rises again, maybe we should just let them secede.

[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

They can secede, just leave the land behind when they do so. Enjoy the international waters.

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even the reddest counties in the reddest states vote 10% blue. Most red states have strong pockets of blue in cities. (Nashville, Charleston, pretty much all of south Florida). Many southern states are purple or even blue! Georgia has two blue senators and a governor! Virginia has two blue senators and a red governor. North Carolina is up there too.

I'm very afraid for those people if the fascist lunatics get more control. I know you are sort of joking that we can't just abandon them to that fate.

Also selfishly: do we really want the Christian Taliban to create an Afghanistan with y'all Quida next door to us? That wouldn't end well.

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[–] Silviecat44@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would like to not have this in my feed

[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's a shitposting sub. you're here of your own volition.

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It wasn't even used as the actual flag of the Confederacy. This version of the flag is the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, which has sort of just come to represent the whole Confederacy now. The actual flag that was used by the Confederacy actually had quite a bit more white on it, which in the eyes of some at the time understood it to represent the "White race" (from Wikipedia):

On April 23, 1863, the Savannah Morning News editor William Tappan Thompson, with assistance from William Ross Postell, a Confederate blockade runner, published an editorial championing a design featuring the battle flag on a white background he referred to later as "The White Man's Flag," a name which never caught on. In explaining the white background of his design, Thompson wrote, "As a people, we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause."

Their flag actually went through three versions between 1861–1865 (each with multiple variations), so they really didn't have their shit together over the course of those 4 years even.

[–] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone know if r/ShermanPosting made the Lemmy jump yet?

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[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

Shout-out to Vexillologycirclejerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz as this post would be quite suited for their flag shit posting.

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