[=Intervention=]

Hmm. Looks like I misread the post. My error. But it's always hilarious to see that the folks who have the most problem with the Confederacy, reenactment, state's rights, and so on are bigoted Yankees once again trying to deny the cultural expression of Southerners. You can do anything you want in the U.S.A, except raise a rebel flag or celebrate Southern heritage. Do that and you'll be told to "get over it." Hilarious. I guess they feel threatened at some level or have to constantly stick their noses into other people's business. Live and let live. Perhaps it is you who needs to get over being offended by other people's culture? Hmm?

[Poohbah]

Hmm. Looks like I misread the post. My error. But it's always hilarious to see that the folks who have the most problem with the Confederacy, reenactment, state's rights, and so on are bigoted Yankees once again trying to deny the cultural expression of Southerners.

I hold no brief whatsoever for the policies of the Confederacy. I acknowledge that the Civil War is an important part of American history, and hold that any attempt to censor its symbols (such as the Confederate flag) is not only Constitutionally indefensible, it's morally wrong, on the basis of trying to destroy history--the good, the bad, and the ugly.

You can do anything you want in the U.S.A, except raise a rebel flag or celebrate Southern heritage. Do that and you'll be told to "get over it." Hilarious.

Check the calendar: the war ended a long time ago. The folks who keep trying to glorify the Confederacy as mankind's noblest hope and paint the Union as some sort of two-headed ogre are on the same moral plane as those who seek to destroy the Confederacy through symbolic annihilation--in both cases, violence needs to be done to the historic record.

I guess they feel threatened at some level or have to constantly stick their noses into other people's business. Live and let live. Perhaps it is you who needs to get over being offended by other people's culture? Hmm?

I'm not offended by the presence of a rebel flag. I am offended by the continual efforts to rewrite the Confederacy into some sort of noble crusade of The-Godly-Southron-Elect against Those-Evil-Yankees-Whose-Feet-Stank-and-Didn't-Believe-in-Jesus. The legal arguments for unilateral secession were weak to begin with, and the actions of Jefferson Davis et al with respect to Fort Sumter destroyed whatever legitimacy their cause had.