[wimpycat]

The joke is on the anti-Confederate flag people, really. The new flag is a modification of the real Confederate flag, the real "Stars and Bars", only without the stars.

I don't know why the battle flag gets such bad press, while at the same time they don't care (or even know) about the real Confederate flag. But all they've done is swap one confederate symbol for another.

[goldstategop]

The NAACLP has been had. That's the only thing I really care about and as long as they don't bring Roy Barnes' creation back, it suits me fine.

[lugsoul]

No joke. It's actually simple - the Stars and Bars (upon which the new flag is based) [a] hasn't been used by skinheads, Klansmen, and various redneck hate groups as a symbol and [b] wasn't selected by the Georgia Legislature to "send a message" about desegregation. It isn't the Confederate history of the battle flag that is objectionable. It is the symbol of white supremacy that it has become - thanks to those who use it in that manner, and those who let them.

[Constitution Day]

But all they've done is swap one Confederate symbol for another.

Exactly!

[Polybius]

But all they've done is swap one confederate symbol for another.

Very true.

They have swapped the flag flown by Confederate soldiers in battle for the flag flown by Confederate politicians over Confederate Legislatures.

It seems to me that, if the NAACP types had a beef with Confederates, it would have been more with the Confederate politicians than with the Confederate soldier.