[MinnesotaLibertarian]

A good point. People have the right to fly the flag if they want, but trying to pretend that it's not found offensive by a lot of people is denying reality. I find it offensive as it's the flag of a country that for its entire existence was an enemy of the United States of America. I find it treasonous, and am perplexed why so many supposed conservatives glorify it.

[wideawake]

I find it offensive as it's the flag of a country that for its entire existence was an enemy of the United States of America. I find it treasonous, and am perplexed why so many supposed conservatives glorify it.

Few people get as screamed at on these threads as I do for my utter contempt for the Confederacy as an organization.

However, it remains to be said that few people on earth ever fought so nobly and so often well-intentionedly for such a contemptible cause.

A man like Robert E. Lee was a tragic hero in the original sense of Greek tragedy - like Oedipus or Theseus. An individual of incredible character and talent who was undone by a single fatal flaw.

[weegee]

I don’t glorify it. But desecration of our flag is permitted under free speech. Some flags are more equal and some speech is more protected.

And it is an “expired” flag. It flys over no foreign power.

While a private employer could take such a stand on private property, can a public school make this demand?

[WoofDog123]

It was an enemy of the half of the United States of which it itself was not composed.

[thulldud]

I find it treasonous, and am perplexed why so many supposed conservatives glorify it.

Because conservatives see the Confederacy as the last attempt of the states to resist the all-powerful federal juggernaut. We aren't allowed to consider the war as about anything but slavery, but in fact it was about who got to decide the question (and, as it worked out, all subsequent questions.)

Do I really need to put on my own flameproof shorts now...?

[NucSubs]

I find it offensive as it's the flag of a country that for its entire existence was an enemy of the United States of America. I find it treasonous, and am perplexed why so many supposed conservatives glorify it.

You and me both pal. You and me both. In the dictionary under cognitive dissonance they should show a picture of some guy who has the Battle Flag and the Stars and Stripes hanging from the same porch.

But I 100% support their right to fly it - especially on private property or as a deal on a truck, even if that truck is in a school lot.