Is the confederate flag racist?
 

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Is this a item of "white power" or just southern pride??

i think its racist....... whats your input

No, I don't think it is racist. People who fly it for the wrong reasons are racist. :glugglug

It can be southern pride or a racial symbol, depending on the person. I have a couple confederate flag items because I've gone down south so many times... it's just the souvenir to get.

That's like saying the Union flag or the flag of the United States of America is racist. Go do some research on the Confederate flag and then think twice about posting nonsensical bullshit like this.

Everyone knows that it was the Great War of Northern Aggression. :flagface :Graucho

i have it hanging on my door, i just think its a cool ass looking flag.

Kill whitey :mad:

I consider it Southern pride, unless it's flown by an obvious racist.

I don't think the flag itself is racist, but most of the people who tend to fly it are.

Can't be that bad though, the General Lee from Dukes Of Hazzard had it painted on the roof! And you seen how many blacks and mexicans were in the show! LOL!

Idiot.

I take it you fully know the origin of the swastia as well>?

I myself don't know the history of that flag but if you post a link I would be interested to learn about it! :thumbsup

It may or may not be racist, but it is inarguably a LOSER flag. :tongue:
Union - 1
Confederacy - 0

and the winner is... :flagface

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It's beyond ignorant to think it's the flag that's racist.

flag = racist? nah

Why is he an idiot?... for having an opinion.

Anyways the symbol of the swastika was not only a symbol for the Nazis but has been around for thousands of years and has many different meanings to different cultures especialy in the East.

It's a symbol of a terrible era, and brings serious grief to an awful lot of people.
Racist? No
Insensitive- Absolutely

It's up there with 'funny' t-shirts about the WTC being hit by airplanes

Its a fucking flag.

Nothing makes it racist and it isnt a symbol for racism

The only thing that makes it racist is if it is take by stupid people and made to associte with hate

like the swastika

When I lived in Georgia, it was seen by many as racist.

We had three flag poles...on one was the flag of the USA....one which few people had....that one was in the middle.

To the right, we had the confederate flag and to the left, just to fuck with people's heads, we had the Flag of Israel.

We got respect. No one fucked with our house.

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-haaaaawwwwww"!!

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southern pride... people who think its a racist symbol probably also think the Civil War was fought to free the slaves