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Does the Confederate Flag offend you?
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Posted on 08/06/2009 11:14:41 AM PDT by poetbdk

Does the Confederate Flag offend you? http://www.sodahead.com/question/537677/does-the-confederate-flag-offend-you/ I came across this question asked at SodaHead.com that has produced a lively discussion with over 2500 comments. I thought I would post it here at Free Republic and see if it gets a similiar response.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; crossofsaintandrew; dixie; history; itstheslaverystupid; itwasaboutslavery; saintandrewscross; south; statesrights; tyranny; whitesupremacists
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To: poetbdk

No, it stands for Liberty and Freedom.

It will never offend me except when the dumb rednecks use it as a symbol of hate. That is what offends me, when men who could never stand the barrage of bullets and shells at Seminary Ridge, yet wave it as if they claim the moral rights to use it for political purposes.

Stars and Bars, long may it wave.

They have their ‘X’, I have mine.


22 posted on 08/06/2009 11:23:30 AM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Of course not, it stands for our Southern heritage and states’ rights- I don’t agree with what they supported, slavery is wrong, but as sovereign states they were allowed to leave the Union- just like I think my State of Florida should, if our RINO governor Charlie Crist had more balls


23 posted on 08/06/2009 11:23:30 AM PDT by ObamaCare-to show the CERT?
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To: poetbdk
One of my favorite shirts (bought one on the fourth of July) wear it proudly...


24 posted on 08/06/2009 11:24:41 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: poetbdk

Which one?

No.


25 posted on 08/06/2009 11:27:43 AM PDT by silentreignofheroes (If I had any further to go,I'd be there.)
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To: FrPR
It wasn’t the “War Between the States.” It was the Second War of Independence. And everybody lost.

Winners write the history books. In this case the winners wrote about a war between the states. But even so - you haven't actually addressed my point ... I'll make it an explicit question. Can anybody else think of a conquored state that has been permitted the privilege of flying its battle standard after the conquest and surrender?
26 posted on 08/06/2009 11:27:54 AM PDT by TomOnTheRun
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To: poetbdk

No ! Just a marker to show the battle lines .


27 posted on 08/06/2009 11:28:19 AM PDT by Renegade (You go tell my buddies)
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To: FrPR

Amen


28 posted on 08/06/2009 11:31:10 AM PDT by PjhCPA (She's pretty, but where's the beef?)
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To: TomOnTheRun

Wales and Scotland.


29 posted on 08/06/2009 11:31:13 AM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
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To: poetbdk

Never has, never will.


30 posted on 08/06/2009 11:31:28 AM PDT by oyez
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To: Constitution Day

IBSW!


31 posted on 08/06/2009 11:32:08 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Renegade

The confederate battle flag is part of our history. It was bastardized by the klan and the dimrats and all other non thinking people equate that flag with the klan. The only flag that offends me is the obama/pepsi thing.


32 posted on 08/06/2009 11:32:17 AM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Wales and Scotland don’t have their own battle colors - they share the same monarch and so, by extension, the same battle standards. They do have national flags - these are not the same thing as a battle standard.


33 posted on 08/06/2009 11:33:07 AM PDT by TomOnTheRun
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To: Texas resident

The only flag that offends me is the obama/pepsi thing.

Amen, brother...


34 posted on 08/06/2009 11:33:44 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Hatteras

LOL!


35 posted on 08/06/2009 11:34:06 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: poetbdk

No I think it is a part of our history and should be honored.....

The only thing that would be offensive to me is who would carry it, like the KKK....in that case the flag is not offensive but the evil carrying it is.....I think that is the confusion, people need to look beyond the flag and look at who is displaying it and their intent......


36 posted on 08/06/2009 11:34:11 AM PDT by Kimmers (Be the kind of person when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, Oh crap, she's awake)
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To: TomOnTheRun

“I’ll make it an explicit question. Can anybody else think of a conquored state that has been permitted the privilege of flying its battle standard after the conquest and surrender?”

Mexico. All it’s illegal aliens waving their flags EVERY DAY in this country.


37 posted on 08/06/2009 11:34:27 AM PDT by AuntB (Tired of Left/right coast globalist party power brokers? How 'bout THE HEARTLAND AMERICA PARTY??)
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To: poetbdk

Why should anyone be offended by the symbol of a freedom-loving people? Anyone, that is, who has the capacity to think and not just regurgitate the distortions in the government-run schools.

It should be celebrated and revered, Who knows, it may fly in battle once again.

Deo vindice


38 posted on 08/06/2009 11:36:59 AM PDT by NTHockey (Why should the symbol of a freedom-loving people offend anyone. Anyone, that is, with at least the)
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To: poetbdk

Only if it accompanies a sheet-wearing cross burning moron.


39 posted on 08/06/2009 11:37:06 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: poetbdk

No, but the red hammer and sickle flag does. So does the ubiquitious image of Che Guevara - the Cuban version of Heinrich Himmler.


40 posted on 08/06/2009 11:37:27 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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