I think this shirt covers all the bases.
Posted on 10/14/2013 8:57:50 AM PDT by celmak
At a tea party rally in Washington Sunday billed as the “Million Vet March,” one idiot decided to bring Confederate flag, which was enough for liberals to paint the entire Republican Party as racist.
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Yes, that is correct.
You know, "slavery" like "carrying a baby for nine months" does not automatically confer the moral high ground. Believe it or not, some things are more morally repugnant than slavery.
“...So I believe in freedom to show the Confederate flag. I don’t agree with it tho...”
Bingo. That’s ALL you had to say in the first place.
“..I never implied it either...”
Look at it from THIS side of the keyboard. It’ll look different. We say things sometimes, and they come out a certain way, regardless of whether we meant it that way or not. Sometimes, it’s not even a conscious thing.
But hey. No harm, no foul. You have yourself a great night!
Really. How does holding/having a Confederate flag make one an idiot? Political correctness taking over again.
I’m not a born-and-bred southerner, but we moved to Tennessee three years ago. We love the symbolism of states’ rights, and the independent spirit of the people, when we see that flag. I remember the day we relocated here, driving in our rental car out of the Nashville airport, and seeing that the car ahead of us had a big Confederate flag flying. We honked and waved, and felt GREAT! It seemed that we were in America (having left California only three hours earlier).
Well, this is one fine dust-up you started ;’)
It’s fascinating to witness your point in fact and in play - that the stainless banner is divisive and counter-productive to conservative interests and pursuits.
Personally I don’t have a problem with people parading it around with (I have one of my own around here somewhere), but folks do need to recognize that it evokes reactions that are predictable depending on where one waves it. We’ve played in very yuppie Seattle clubs with the battle flag draped behind us and had no problem. Wave it on any street named “Martin Luther King” and you’re asking for trouble.
I was on one of the Breitbart pages doing battle with the loonies and witnessed several of them noting (with fake alarm) the flag’s presence (about a second and a half out of a 5 minute video) and the inevitable BS charge of “racist!” Like someone else here responded, my reply to a couple of them was “BFD”.
They are desperate to score points right now (why do you suppose that is?!) and will grasp at any straw. I won’t give them the satisfaction of a reaction.
“Why is he an ‘idiot’?”
Because Politically Correct “conservatives” are in total agreement with the Left on this issue- they will both tell you that the Confederacy was no different than Nazi Germany.
“If you want to revisit your right of succession battle yet again, organize your own rally for that effort and stop elbowing your way into other legitimate protests. “\
The Left has enough useful idiots already. You need to decide whether you need to keep being one more.
Communist flags (plural) with Che Guevara on them in Obama’s HOUSTON campaign office and it never made national headlines.
Communist libtards don’t really give a damn about any of it. It’s just there to pressure the mushy middle.
“The confederate flag has absolutely nothing to do with today’s world and the issues being discussed.” -D
Are you familiar with the 50 state petitions to peacefully secede that received tens of thousands signatures on WH.gov?
Personally, I fly Bonnie Blue. Idiots of all stripes just don’t know what to make of it. In fact most people like it, even those in the, ‘I am offended by your individual freedom of expression’ crowd.
Indeed. They are accomplices to the Marxist.
I’m a damn Yankee who doesn’t care for your rebellion myself but even if I did, it’s just plain retarded to use that symbol at a tea party rally. You gotta deal with reality, the reality is that flag is more hated than loved and is an easy target and you are not going to change that. We don’t need to be making things hard on ourselves doing favors for the media.
The only ones doing favors for the media are those of you running around in circles trying to appease and no matter how much you try to conform it will never be enough.
“Unfortunately, the “Rebel” flag of the Confederates cannot be seen without its history (unless one is ignorant of this fact) “
Speaking of ignorance— the Stars and Stripes flew over slave holding America for at least 90 years. Should we get rid of it, too, to satisfy your bed wetter pals? Or do you arbitrarily pick and choose what flags you want to ban?
I think this shirt covers all the bases.
When I'm paying!!!!
Face it, your rebellion is not popular and it’s a liability to honor it. Get over it. It’s a waste of time to even talk about that stupid flag. It’s a distraction! Don’t needlessly give them distractions.
Read a book.
I take your point, but fighting for the Confederate Flag is a pointless battle that is doomed to failure. Fight battles that are actually meaningful and that actually have a chance at success. The “Confederacy was good” battle is neither meaningful nor possible to win. It’s just a point of honor for those of you that are fixated on it.
Obamacare, now that’s an important battle.
But there are a bunch of goobers who think every event absolutely has to have a rebel flag at it.
The rebels retired with an 0-1 lifetime record. I don't know what the pride is all about anyway.
No, what's "retarded" is helping your enemies to label your friends.
What flavor of idiot actually believes any contemporary American not on lithium advocates slavery, or believes contemporary "civil rights" activists are interested in equality?
Am I the only one here who remembers the left doing the same things with the Gadsden flag?
ANY accusation the left makes about the right is going to be at the very least superficially plausible. Those accusations only gain so much power as the right grants their plausibility.
Granting those accusations ANY plausibility is nothing less than betrayal of ones idealogical coworkers.
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