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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: 17th Miss Regt
Mississippians could fight. Posey’s and Barksdale’s brigades come instantly to mind.
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:20:02 PM PDT
by
carton253
(Ask me about Throw Away the Scabbard - a Civil War alternate history.)
To: carton253
Then perhaps you are offended by the American flag. For slaves were bought and sold under that flag long before the Confederate flag.
I never even said I was offended by the confederate flag. I said it was a provocative flag. C'mon - anyone here can see that it is provocative. If it was provocative in some fashion these conversations would never happen.
To: TomOnTheRun; carton253
If it was provocative in some fashion these conversations would never happen.
That should have read WASN'T ... if it wasn't provocative we would never have conversations like this about it.
To: TomOnTheRun
To: TomOnTheRun; Admin Moderator
“I asked because I feel that it IS provocative to fly that flag. It was a battle standard for a confederacy that was conquored in war. A war that was - not entirely - in some measure waged over controversial issues like human and civil rights for all. It is & should be a provocative act to fly that flag.
-snip-
We should all do what we think is wise but we should be fully aware of what we are doing. =)”
Ohhhhhhhhhhh...a moral compass...goody...gee, you know ALL of your posts center on the moral compass motif of the left...
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:23:31 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
To: Texas resident
Should we also ban this flag since the Klan carried it?
86
posted on
08/06/2009 12:23:36 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: TomOnTheRun
Perhaps people shouldn’t be so sensitive.
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:25:29 PM PDT
by
carton253
(Ask me about Throw Away the Scabbard - a Civil War alternate history.)
To: carton253; TomOnTheRun
“Then perhaps you are offended by the American flag.”
You can BET on that, FRiend...this guy is offended by our flag, guaranteed...
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:26:19 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
To: poetbdk
HELL TO THE NO!! I carried one into battle in Iraq and it is now framed and hanging on my living room wall...The Iraqi’s left us alone when they saw the flag flying.
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:27:22 PM PDT
by
OL Hickory
(I AM JIM THOMPSON!!)
To: carton253
Great-grandpa was in Barksdale’s brigade from Ball’s Bluff to Appomattox.
To: jessduntno
Ohhhhhhhhhhh...a moral compass...goody...gee, you know ALL of your posts center on the moral compass motif of the left...
No - not of the left - but you are correct that almost all of my comments do revolve around what I think the moral thing to do is. It's almost as if I spent some time thinking about morality and the right thing to do during those 10 years that I spent as a monk... weird.
To: TomOnTheRun
“If it was provocative in some fashion these conversations would never happen.”
And they wouldn’t happen if “conservatives” like you didn’t bring them in here...intentionally.
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:28:37 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
To: jessduntno
You can BET on that, FRiend...this guy is offended by our flag, guaranteed...
I can answer for myself. And I already did. I guess I can do it again. I'm not offended by the American flag. Or the confederate flag either for that matter.
To: 17th Miss Regt
Both Posey's Brigade and Barksdale's Brigade are featured in my alternate Civil War Novel: Throw Away the Scabbard.
They were fun to write about. I liked them very much.
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:30:51 PM PDT
by
carton253
(Ask me about Throw Away the Scabbard - a Civil War alternate history.)
To: TomOnTheRun
“It’s almost as if I spent some time thinking about morality and the right thing to do during those 10 years that I spent as a monk... weird.”
Should have stayed there, Sparky...because your “moral thinking” is obviously nothing but cheap trouble making...and I don’t like it. Nothing weird about it except you are looking for trouble...monk boy...
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:31:55 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
To: poetbdk
If it offended me ,I wouldnt be flying one.
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:33:33 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: TomOnTheRun
“I can answer for myself. And I already did. I guess I can do it again. I’m not offended by the American flag. Or the confederate flag either for that matter.”
Soooooo, you were just idly wondering what FReepers thought? It was an already resolved issue for you, but you wanted feedback...to what purpose?
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:34:37 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
Comment #98 Removed by Moderator
To: TomOnTheRun
...during those 10 years that I spent as a monk...Jerry Brown... is that you?
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:37:24 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: FrPR; TomOnTheRun
It was the War of Northern Aggression.
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posted on
08/06/2009 12:42:08 PM PDT
by
nanetteclaret
(Unreconstructed Catholic Texan)
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