Six Flags Over Texas continues to fly Confederate flag despite controversy

Fox News ^ | 08/17/2017

[DFG]

Despite the recent events in Charlottesville, Va., the Six Flags Over Texas theme park stands by its decision to fly the Confederate States of America flag.

The Arlington theme park was named for the six flags that have flown over the state of Texas in its history, the Confederate flag being one of them, according to TMZ.

[backwoods-engineer]

In other news, Antifa is planning to burn down Six Flags Over Texas.

.... would anyone be surprised by that? I wouldn't.

[laplata]

BINGO!

[Envisioning]

What a BS headline. There is no controversy. Only made-up hysteria.

[askrenr]

"would anyone be surprised by that? I wouldn't."

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I would be surprised, I live in Texas, and I carry concealed. You might be surprised how many carry in Texas. Even at Six Flags.

[Uncle Sam 911]

Thank you.

[Terry Mross]

For those on here who still watch Fox “news”, I’d like to point out that they had to reference TMZ as a source that six flags have flown over Texas.

[Terry Mross]

By attacking the Confederacy they’re making it a racial issue. If Confederate flags start showing up everywhere they’ve succeeded. Obama tried to do this for 7 years. Don’t let them win now.

[Garth Tater]

"By attacking the Confederacy they’re making it a racial issue."

I don't understand the point you are making. What is the "it" that you are referring to? The Confederacy? By attacking the Confederacy they are making it the Confederacy a racial issue? That makes no sense.

[Verginius Rufus]

It’s the first national flag (stars and bars), not the better-known battle flag (the one with the St. Andrew’s cross).

[Terry Mross]

They’re making Trump and Trump voters appear to be racists. Don’t you think it’s strange that all of a sudden “they” want the Confederacy erased? They figured out that there are just as many racists as there are BLM. So Trump speaks the truth about who’s violent and he’s called a racist. And they know that the one thing the Republicans are most afraid of is being called a racist.

[Garth Tater]

They’re making Trump and Trump voters appear to be racists

They are trying to make them appear to be racists, but with BLM front and center out there on the stage it's not working. Even the low-info types know who the real racists are.

And they know that the one thing the Republicans are most afraid of is being called a racist.

I think the left has lost or is in the process of losing that lever. I am now seeing normal, everyday, non-racist people pushing back (even milquetoast Republicans) and calling the Democrats and especially the BLM crowd racists - which of course they are. Historically, over the years in W.Va. I'm sure that most Confederate flags have been flown by white racists but I'm hearing people that I know personally to not be racists talking about putting one up just to stuff it in the faces of the real racists. There is another group of people that are proud of their heritage and know that the Civil War was only partially about race - and not even the biggest part at that - and these people are putting up Confederate flags now that the "racist" tag has lost most of its power.

[SaraJohnson]

If you put up a confederate flag, be careful and be armed. The Nazis/commies are on the march. They are not happy to just vandalize. They want to attack the politically incorrect one.

[Garth Tater]

I live in rural Appalachia. Even my dog is armed :)

You are right though, they are looking for a fight and I think they are going to find one - at least in the big cities - but out here where I live I'd be surprised if we have any problems. There may be a few under-aged Antifa wanna-be's that haven't learned the facts of life yet, but with their public school violence-never-solves-anything, can't-we-all-just-get-along upbringing they really don't even know how to throw a punch, let alone take one.