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An Honest Cross-Section of Southern Opinions on the Battle Flag of the Confederacy
It's weird: in the aftermath of the Charleston Massacre, we've seen a wave of political posturing over the public display of the Confederate flag, even selling license plates featuring it. There has been competition among retailers to drop carrying copies of the battle flag. If anyone should be objecting, it should be libertarians. focusing on the rights of those who find the flag represents their regional pride and heritage, reverence towards their sacrifices of their ancestors but fear the tyranny of the majority. I don't own a Confederate flag and I have no nostalgia for the shameful history of slavery in the South--but I did not like this fusion of Statism/political correctness thinking they have a right to overrule the rights of those who revere the flag.
I found myself getting trolled on a couple of libertarian sites by those who were piling on the politically correct bandwagon. There was one piece of work who suggested that I'm a skinhead racist who finds meaning in flying swastikas. (Little does the jerk know the swastika "is a sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Odinism.") For me, I believe that the South had a right to secede under the principle of free association and had a right under the Non-Aggression Principle to defend itself. Lincoln declared in his first inaugural address he had no intention of challenging the institution of slavery--but in fact, he invaded the South and was responsible for the most deadly war in American history. (Let me pause to note that there is some idiot for the Weekly Standard who wanted to hold Jefferson Davis responsible for the losses in a war that was forced on him...) For a good essay on this topic, see Tom Woods here.
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(Rand Paul 2016). Rand's been saying this for a while.
Let me see: some monster conducts a multiple homicidal act of terrorism in a chufch and everyone thinks the way to "heal" is to appease the gods of political correctness.
(a follow-up to yesterday's thread on the battle flag controversy)
What we know as the "Confederate Flag" was never adopted by the CSA, and was only used for a short time as a Naval Jack. The CSA went through a couple of flags. Read it on Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
You are actually making my point, although obscurely. There have been multiple posts of this essay over the past week, and I usually point out that we are discussing the battle flag; I may have shortened the reference in this thread because it's the only Confederate flag most people know from the endless kerfuffles. But it is known to everyone who has ever dealt with the issue, because we know that the only American flag that brought slaves to the US was the stars and stripes, but the first troll above hypocritically has an issue with the battle flag. That is to say, the St. Andrew's cross was never adopted as "the" national flag of the Confederate States.
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