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Six Flags Over Texas continues to fly Confederate flag despite controversy
Fox News ^ | 08/17/2017

Posted on 08/17/2017 10:37:24 AM PDT by DFG

Despite the recent events in Charlottesville, Va., the Six Flags Over Texas theme park stands by its decision to fly the Confederate States of America flag.

The Arlington theme park was named for the six flags that have flown over the state of Texas in its history, the Confederate flag being one of them, according to TMZ.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: arlington; confederate; dixie; purge; sixflags; texas; themeparks
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1 posted on 08/17/2017 10:37:24 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Good


2 posted on 08/17/2017 10:40:41 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: DFG

For every Confederate monument that comes down a thousand Confederate flags are going up.


3 posted on 08/17/2017 10:41:09 AM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: DFG

Soon to be 5 Flags over Texas.

Watch and see.


4 posted on 08/17/2017 10:42:27 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: DFG

They’ll give in.


5 posted on 08/17/2017 10:45:42 AM PDT by albie
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To: Garth Tater

“For every Confederate monument that comes down a thousand Confederate flags are going up.”

Where are they going up?

I’m in the deep, deep south and see less Confederate flags today than I saw a few years ago?


6 posted on 08/17/2017 10:45:56 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: DFG

I wish I could believe they will not cave in at some point.


7 posted on 08/17/2017 10:48:10 AM PDT by uptowngirl
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To: DFG

That is exactly the way it should be.
The business has the right to fly the flag. (So far).

The public has a right to NOT utilize the business.

If business drops to the non profit status, they may or may NOT remove the flag in order to gin up business.

If business flourishes they will then be able to look around and see who ‘causes them problems’ and act accordingly.
ie if the Muslims are causing problems on the grounds, start flying a bacon flag etc.

I have always stated that I fail to comprehend how segregation works.

If you don’t want me in your store, bar, house, etc, just let me know and I will take myself and money elsewhere.

In this case, if the flag ‘offends’ you don’t darken my door.


8 posted on 08/17/2017 10:49:13 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: DFG

People have gone to 6 Flags of every race for DECADES!

Not one time has anyone been sold into slavery or lynched... other than at the ticket booth.


9 posted on 08/17/2017 10:50:46 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (.)
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To: DFG

Don’t mess with Texas!


10 posted on 08/17/2017 10:53:06 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: DFG

It’s in the name. Are they endorsing Mexico, France or Spain by flying their flags?


11 posted on 08/17/2017 10:54:26 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: Timpanagos1

I’m in W.Va and I’m seeing many more.


12 posted on 08/17/2017 10:57:56 AM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: DFG

Good move. Keeps out undesirable people.


13 posted on 08/17/2017 10:58:02 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home)
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To: DFG

Leftwing whacko groups get mega-publicity in the MSM by announcing boycott of Six Flags, in 3...2...1...


14 posted on 08/17/2017 10:58:09 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Responsibility2nd

Thanks for the pub, Fox. You just handed the lunatic fringe their next target.


15 posted on 08/17/2017 11:04:54 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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“For every Confederate monument that comes down a thousand Confederate flags are going up.”

We live in Wyoming and up until the left told everyone that they couldn’t have a Battle Flag of Virginia we were really indifferent to the subject.

Now, right next to our US flag is a Battle Flag of Virginia flying on its own pole that’s one foot shorter than the pole for the US flag.

The left are welcome to come and try to take it down. We have a backhoe and can make plenty of room for them on the ranch.


16 posted on 08/17/2017 11:07:08 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: simpson96

Boycott 6 Flags ??

Off topic but I have friends in the Washington DC area who boycott the 6 Flags there, but for different reasons. They don’t go to that 6 Flags park because there is a certain gang or thuggish element in big numbers at that place.


17 posted on 08/17/2017 11:16:02 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Responsibility2nd

If they change the name, I will boycott them - and I live in San Antonio near SIX FLAGS Fiesta Texas, and have 2 teens.

That’ll cost you SIX Flags management, so be careful.


18 posted on 08/17/2017 11:19:02 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: MeganC
There's a lot of that attitude around here too. Never tell a West Virginian what he can't do or he'll see that it gets done. Come hell or high water, it's going to get done. And just a word of warning to some of the antifa types -- I think some of those flags are being used as bait...
19 posted on 08/17/2017 11:23:38 AM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: DFG

God Bless Texas.

(I enjoy dual-citizenship ;-))


20 posted on 08/17/2017 11:23:54 AM PDT by TomServo
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