[TYVets]

One lunatic o kills some folks and suddenly the hysteria has turned to a flag witch-hunt.

[Truth29]

"One lunatic o kills some folks and suddenly the hysteria has turned to a flag witch-hunt."

We had a black man kill a dozen, mostly white workers at the Washington Navy Yard in 2013, but that was then quickly explained away and consigned to the memory hole. It didn't advance the Leftist narrative.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

That’s because they wanted a riot in SC....and it didn’t happen. They got the Confederate flag to be ‘the boogie man’.

[Trod Upon]

It's really about trying to tie the flag and the Confederacy solely to the worst kind of racism, then using that to tar the whole concept of states' rights through its association with the preConfederate South. Sure, the major right they were fighting to protect was in fact an evil, but slavery was no more an evil in 1861 than it was in 1776. The real issue is that several states had the temerity to band together to oppose what they say as federal tyranny. The idea behind the flag furor is to co-opt even the symbolic language in the debate on federal power. I almost think conservatives should adopt the battle flag as a symbol of reproach to the Cancer Along the Potomac. I know, I know: idiot democrats would just say "You see? Biden was right! They really do wanna put y'all back in chains!"