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    Dave Alex Pareene
    6/24/15 3:49pm

    As much as I despise the flag and all that is stands for, including the dumb kid I used to be when I had one my wall, let’s not take this to stupid extremes. Get them off public property, state flags and logos and then leave it alone. After all, like John Oliver said, they help us identify the worst people in the world.

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      BobbySeriousDave
      6/24/15 3:53pm

      Absolutely. It’s like people with “Rick Santorum for President” bumper stickers. You know to give these freaks a wiiiiiiiide berth....

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      SuperWittySmittyDave
      6/24/15 3:54pm

      I don’t see how big retailers like Amazon and Walmart discontinuing these items comes anywhere near a stupid extreme.

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    PeteRRAlex Pareene
    6/24/15 4:28pm

    Che T-shirts and mouse pads still going strong.

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      Alex PareenePeteRR
      6/24/15 4:52pm

      A surprising number of people seem to think this observation is clever, for some reason.

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      PeteRRAlex Pareene
      6/24/15 7:13pm

      Because he was no-good murdering son-of-a-bitch who helped imprison homosexuals and political dissidents perhaps.

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    The ever-present football-player rapistAlex Pareene
    6/24/15 3:51pm

    Doesn’t the fact that these aren’t recognized as Confederate flags by your average citizen mean they don’t carry the same racist undertones?

    I guess I mean: where do we draw the line between anything and everything having to do with the Confederacy, and those specifics icons that have been more widely adopted by racist fucks?

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      Xenu PooThe ever-present football-player rapist
      6/24/15 4:02pm

      It’s a pile-on without substance at this point.

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      Alex PareeneThe ever-present football-player rapist
      6/24/15 4:49pm

      Well, these flags are certainly recognized by neo-Confederates. Hate groups (like many non-hate groups) use semi-obscure symbols to signal affinity to others who share the secret knowledge. I’m sure not a lot of non-white supremacists were familiar with the flag of Rhodesia before last week.

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    BobbySeriousAlex Pareene
    6/24/15 3:49pm

    Personally, I don’t have any problems with a company selling the Confederate flag. How else am I supposed to know which houses to tell my kids not to play around?

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      fraynetrainBobbySerious
      6/24/15 5:38pm

      this was my exact thought as i as reading the article, the bigger the flag, the sooner i know that i don’t need to interact with these people

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      MajesticSeaFlapFlapBobbySerious
      6/25/15 10:20am

      This. Its like the perfect idiot marker.

      Two of my “fantastic” coworkers just posted on Facebook about how they won’t back down from the Confederate flag and their heritage...

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    HiMyNameIsJayAgainAlex Pareene
    6/24/15 3:48pm

    You can also buy this one:

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      Trevor PhillipsHiMyNameIsJayAgain
      6/24/15 3:55pm

      11/10

      *slow-clap*

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    TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Alex Pareene
    6/24/15 3:55pm

    But what if you merely want to celebrate the proud Republic of West Florida?

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      bruunoTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      6/24/15 4:10pm

      This is actually a legitimately good point. This was originally their flag and I believe inspired the Texas ‘lonestar’ flag as well.

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      lowcountrybraveTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      6/24/15 4:30pm

      Interesting! I never knew.

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    Trevor PhillipsAlex Pareene
    6/24/15 3:49pm

    Somalia? Is that you?

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      CatdogWhispererAlex Pareene
      6/24/15 3:56pm

      Whew, what a relief. A lot of my super intelligent Facebook friends were really worried about this assault on their freedom of speech.

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        FrederickDouglassCatdogWhisperer
        6/24/15 4:15pm

        What about mah right to government sponsored symbols of white supremacy!?!?

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      nopunin10didAlex Pareene
      6/24/15 4:10pm

      I think this post is missing the forest for the trees:

      It’s not just a Confederate flag that’s become the symbol of racism. It’s the “Confederate flag” that’s the problem.

      One of these flags was flown prominently after the Civil War, and it was a symbol for the KKK, opponents to reconstruction, and segregationists. It’s the flag for the social war that racists kept fighting long after the literal war was over.

      These other flags? They really are a part of Civil War history. They represented a group of states that wanted their rights to slavery protected, and were scared that a Republican presidency would mean the end of that. They were wrong, and they defended an evil practice, but they lost. We absorbed them back in. They’re still our states, part of our country. We can’t bury their history entirely.

      But all the crap that happened afterward? That didn’t happen in some fledgling rebellion. That happened all over. It may have started in the South, but that crazy racism and white supremacy spread to other states too. They chose this “Confederate Flag” as their symbol.

      These other Confederate flags? They belong in a museum. Maybe a Civil War battle reenactment. Unless we start seeing them show up as the calling cry of racists, I’m not sure they’ll ever have that potency.

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        Subtitles999nopunin10did
        6/24/15 5:12pm

        It's a damn shame this does not have more stars.

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        catscradlenopunin10did
        6/24/15 6:24pm

        It’s a shame this has to even be explained.

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      김치전!Alex Pareene
      6/24/15 3:51pm

      Do we no longer hang for treason in this country?!

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        Xenu Poo김치전!
        6/24/15 3:56pm

        I’ve seen ‘treason’ thrown about a lot lately, and I really don’t understand the context. Are you suggesting meaningless shit like, “the South will rise again” amounts to “attempting to overthrow the government?” Are people actually mobilizing?

        Because the only people to actually come close to treason in the last few years are the Clintons, specifically Hillary, accepting donations to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for influence.

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        BIlllingtonXenu Poo
        6/24/15 4:49pm

        The “treason” thing isn’t really happening, but it is baffling that for years American politicians, who ostensibly serve the federal government, were defending a flag that literally represented treason, and to fly the flag in front of federal buildings doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense.

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