““If it was purely a flag representing the region, albeit one involved with a stupid war, I would be proud of it,” said Curtis Wilkie, a journalist and historian of the South who teaches at the University of Mississippi. “Yet it’s become something entirely different and therefore objectionable.” “
That is the thing about symbols, they can be interpreted differently by everyone who sees it. But his reasoning is just stupid. By that logic, the US flag would be higher on the objectionable list.
the professor probably thinks andrew jackson should be classified as a genocidal maniac for the treatment of the indians, fellow patriot
And the reinterpretation goes on. It is only a short step now, to outlaw the display of the national flag of that nation once known as “the United States of America”.
That territory has become a sort of a no-morals, no-principals, free-fire zone for every despicable and unlovely emotion of which humanity is capable. Honest and civil discourse has been abandoned, in favor of “instant regulation” and populist legislation.
Do not underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people once their attention has been directed.