[2ndDivisionVet]

He's soooooo courageous!

[a fool in paradise]

And Joooz. Don’t forget about the evil Joooooz. < /sarc >

[mmichaels1970]

They’ll be calling for the demolition of Stone Mountain by the end of the week.

[kingu]

ISIS flags are tied to executions, Islam has murdered thousands, mosques continue to preach their constant hatred. Hon about caring about most of us rather than a few offended?

[Darksheare]

Someone ask him about Israel’s right to exist.
Watch his head asplode.

[wideawake]

At this point the paranoia over the Confederate battle flag is getting even more annoying than the annoying pro-treason screeds of the Confederacy’s modern apologists.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Back in the 70s and 80s the Confederate Flag just meant, at least to us Northern Kids, “the South” or “Rebel”: Dukes of Hazzard, Skynyrd, even Tom Petty all sported the flag in a harmless, non racial, sense.

I respect the viewpoint of people that still feel it means that.

Still, sometimes symbols get co-opted to the point where the general meaning has been corrupted and the “negative” connotation is too widely accepted for it to be worthwhile to keep arguing about the original, benign, meaning.

(See, for example, the Roman salute and the Swastika).

I’ve thought the Confederate flag might be at that point for a while now.

[RedHeeler]

Well, was he asked about, Our Flag of the United States of America?

[Bobby_Taxpayer]

Another uninformed looser trying to rewrite history into something it isn’t.

[Vendome]

Go to hell, you weasel!

[Vendome]

Go to hell, you weasel!

[Bronzy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRtlUi3OJ_c

[GregoTX]

“inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery” WHAT? Slavery is illegal in the Untied States. No one suffers in slavery under that battle flag, that is idiotic. Many flags exist today that existed during the time of slavery.

Im going to fly my CSA battle flag tomorrow just because these idiot politicians say I shouldn't.

[allendale]

Bandwagons usually don’t go far. He is essentially mocking an emblem that for many of his constituents is the symbol of the courage and valiant service of their ancestors, most of whom were not slave owners and who shared the same racial attitudes of their Northern opponents of their time.

[South40]

[DaxtonBrown]

Well there you go, Rand is neck and neck with Hillary.

[matthew fuller]

Thanks Rand, for bowing out of this insanely overcrowded contest. The herd needed culling.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Yes, he issssssss.

[P-Marlowe]

It’s time for the United States to kick all those racist Southern states out of the Union.

[alexander_busek]

“No, I agree, I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery, and particularly when people use it obviously for murder and to justify hated so vicious that you would kill somebody I think that that symbolism needs to end, and I think South Carolina is doing the right thing,”

Was it "inescapably" such a symbol 25 years ago, Mr. Paul? Did you recognize it as such? Why not?

The key: "...when people use it obviously for..."

So, if someone else misappropriates MY symbol (a heart pierced by an arrow, a cross, etc.), and misuses it, then I can be forced to give it up?

Regards,

[Jet Jaguar]