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What the Confederate Flag now means to me.
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| 6/27/2015
| By Laz A. Mataz
Posted on 06/27/2015 3:19:03 PM PDT by Lazamataz
As a 'damn Yankee' -- that is, a Northerner who came to the South and didn't leave -- the Confederate Flag has never really held meaning for me. I understood that for most who displayed it, it meant a reverence for the heritage of the South and expressed the rebellious spirit I so often find, and admire, here.
Then the events of the shooting in South Carolina played out. Dylann Root was found to have embraced that flag, but for different and objectionable reasons of true racism.
The hysteria that followed was terrifying to watch. Both Democrats and Republicans, media and corporations, all jumped aboard a fevered bandwagon that cast aside rationality for a false emotional response. Apple corporation, for example, banned all Civil War games in their app store. Utterly absurd.
The media breathlessly reported every banning, discontinuation, removal from state grounds, and whipped the masses up as well as they could.
The masses were unresponsive. I saw no turning of opinion, and there was no grassroots groundswell for this Southern cultural cleansing, this was a manufactured hysteria and the classic definition of overreaction, but it was at the organizational level. That, my friends, is censorship.
So the Confederate Flag now has a new meaning for this New York-born Southerner:
- It means a resistance to the tyranny of political correctness.
- It means hostility to censorship.
- It means, opposition to mindless hysteria.
- It means, pure antipathy nay, hatred! of the media for fanning the flames of hysteria and aggravating the uproar.
- It means great objection to being backstabbed by the party the Republicans that tries to convince me that they are my home.
- Finally, it means I shall never surrender.
TOPICS: FReeper Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: battleflag; confederateflag; terrifying
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:19:03 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:19:40 PM PDT
by
dinodino
To: Lazamataz
P.S.—I’ll bet you’d hit it.
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:20:05 PM PDT
by
dinodino
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:21:05 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We are exactly the same as the Democrats !!!")
To: Lazamataz
Amen, bro....and dim libs just don’t get it...but they “won” so we need to STFU and bow to the masters.../s
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:21:06 PM PDT
by
matginzac
To: Lazamataz
First they came for the Confederate Flag, and I did nothing because I wasn’t a Southerner.
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:21:16 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:22:33 PM PDT
by
Mathews
(Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
To: Lazamataz
So how come I’m not on your list?
And I agree with your missive, btw.
‘Pod
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:22:54 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: Lazamataz
Maybe spread this around?
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:22:57 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
To: dinodino; Lazamataz
TTIWWP!
To: PfromHoGro; AFreeBird
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:23:20 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We are exactly the same as the Democrats !!!")
To: Lazamataz
PS - I bet there are plenty of CSA flags to be found on the internet you can copy and print yourself.
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:23:38 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
To: dfwgator
Wow! That just hit me like a ton of bricks...
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:24:01 PM PDT
by
Mathews
(Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:24:06 PM PDT
by
Chuckster
("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
To: Boogieman
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:24:14 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
To: Lazamataz
Oh, poor Laz ... I tell you what: go ahead and add me to your ping list. The last ping list I belonged to was Dighton’s.
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:24:37 PM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.)
To: Lazamataz
yup- i never thought much about the Confederate flag- i couldn’t care less about it...
the leftists have now made it a positive symbol for me- and i like you am a damn Yankee...
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:24:41 PM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: Lazamataz
Very well said. As a northerner who has spent a lot of time in South Carolina and is looking to retire there, I share those sentiments.
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:24:52 PM PDT
by
07Jack
To: Lazamataz
Rebellion to centralized government.
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posted on
06/27/2015 3:24:52 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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