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.
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.