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Originally posted by Haunted
If you've studied the Civil War you recognize that it does sorta insinuate a racist society.
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Sorta insinuate a racist society? That's got to be the understatement of the year! I am from the far north (Minnesota) and that flag only means one thing up here... It is a symbol of slavery.
During the Civil War it represented the South. The South were trying to cecede from the Union because they wanted to keep slavery legal so during the course of that war, the flag shifted from symbolizing the South to becoming a symbol for those who would support slavery. Would you walk up to a black person and tell them they should be a slave? Of course not. But that's what you're indirectly telling them (At least up here) when you sport a shirt with the stars and bars on it. Personally, I hate the symbol. I find it disgusting and anytime I see someone wearing it, I instantly think of them as being amongst the lowest forms of white trash around.
But all that being said, we're a free country with free speech and the freedom to wear whatever the hell we want so violence should never be brought against anyone based on what they're wearing (Even if it IS nazi gear). It's just that if these people realized what symbol they think they're wearing may not be the same symbol they are projecting to everyone they encounter were two completely different things, maybe they'd wise up and these kind of situations would be avoidable.