Posted on 06/20/2015 12:35:53 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
This raises the WWWD question: what would Woodrow do? Did anyone since Lincoln more expand FedGov power? And did the Princeton President, icon of the Left, disavow the flag in question?
The guy who shot innocent people at a black church.
bet you’ve never shot people, I pray ... God and Generals ... flags and heritage ... Few winners, on this planet, mostly just whiners .... or the condemned ...
Hmmmm, thanks for the kind words ..... is that a quote from somewhere ? Sounds like one.
The Biblical view of slavery was what it was in the Old Testament. There was no flash revelation in the canonical Books of the New Testament that slave-owning was henceforward a sin and abominate. That is to say, in mathematical terms, there was no [d(R)/d(t)] moment at which slaving and slavery became offenses to God, revealed and taught.
To say that opinion changed is therefore non- Biblical and an interpolation of canon law and Revelation congenial to modern sensibilities. Which seems to be getting us into a lot of trouble in other areas, too.
You don’t know that.
All you know is that he hates Blacks. He may fly the flag for entirely different reasons.
Well, he's still alive, so thankfully we can ask him if was just coincidentally waiving the confederate flag around while preaching hate speech against blacks. It's also theoretically possible he was wearing the British-colony era Rhodesian flag for reasons other than preferring the country under white rule. Maybe he just liked the design and colors of the old Rhodesian flag better than the current Zimbabwe flag, and it had nothing to do with his feelings about segregation).
I suppose both are possible but I wouldn't bet on it.
Was he flying all those flags?
The larger point I’m trying to make, is that it seems clear to me that the percentage of people who fly that flag for purely racist reasons is extremely small.
You’ve got a wing-nut here and folks are trying to extrapolate meaning from his lifestyle which is pretty much pointless.
If this was truly evidence everyone that owned a Dixie Flag (Rebel flat or whatever) was a violent racist it would be far more apparent than than this.
Where’s all the evidence that these folks are violent racists, or even racists at all across the board?
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