[Marauder]

Some view the flag as a symbol of hate and racism.

How does that give them power to tell anyone that they can't wear it? Truth be told, I am offended by the extremely baggy low-rider jeans (where the waistline is below their butts), especially when they bend over and proudly display their underwear.

If I don't have to see that, then they won't have to look at my Confederate Flag emblem. Deal?

[BenLurkin]

There was an important SCOTUS opinion form the sixties involving a person who wore a jacket into the Los Angles County Court House that said "F--- the draft". That person whose names I think was Goldberg, was arrested for violating decency ordinances.


SCOTUS ordered the perpetrator freed holding that we must "avert our eyes" from speech we find to be offensive.

Guess maybe the courts have found that decision and are unwilpling to overrule it. Now those who for some bizarre reason are offended by the battle flag must simply "avert their eyes" along with the rest of us who have been offended over the last forty years by so many things which truly ARE offensive.

[Sonny M]

How does that give them power to tell anyone that they can't wear it?

I had a teacher in college who hated confederate symbols and used to argue that they are now symbols of racism.

I explained then, and still tell people this to this day.

If somone wanted to, at will, they could make the word "door knob" a racial slur and make the "peace sign" (aka the cross of nero) into a racist symbol.

Its really easy to do, my teacher didn't doubt me, but her thinking implied that she would probably want to then ban those words and symbols too, and probably keep doing so.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

What about that rainbow "fruit flag" ???