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What the Confederate Flag now means to me.
Original Content | 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:



TOPICS: FReeper Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: battleflag; confederateflag; terrifying
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1 posted on 06/27/2015 3:19:03 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

Well said, and I agree.


2 posted on 06/27/2015 3:19:40 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Lazamataz

P.S.—I’ll bet you’d hit it.


3 posted on 06/27/2015 3:20:05 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Lazamataz

Creepy Azz Crackers Unite!


4 posted on 06/27/2015 3:20:46 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: TheOldLady; Cyber Liberty; CatherineofAragon; melissa_in_ga; Slings and Arrows; ...
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5 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 !!!")
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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


6 posted on 06/27/2015 3:21:06 PM PDT by matginzac
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To: Lazamataz

First they came for the Confederate Flag, and I did nothing because I wasn’t a Southerner.


7 posted on 06/27/2015 3:21:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lazamataz

Here here! Deus vult!


8 posted on 06/27/2015 3:22:33 PM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Lazamataz

So how come I’m not on your list?

And I agree with your missive, btw.

‘Pod


9 posted on 06/27/2015 3:22:54 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Lazamataz
Maybe spread this around?

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10 posted on 06/27/2015 3:22:57 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: dinodino; Lazamataz
TTIWWP!


11 posted on 06/27/2015 3:23:06 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: PfromHoGro; AFreeBird

Pings, both


12 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 !!!")
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To: Lazamataz

PS - I bet there are plenty of CSA flags to be found on the internet you can copy and print yourself.


13 posted on 06/27/2015 3:23:38 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: dfwgator

Wow! That just hit me like a ton of bricks...


14 posted on 06/27/2015 3:24:01 PM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Lazamataz

Hear, hear!


15 posted on 06/27/2015 3:24:06 PM PDT by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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To: Boogieman

I am not worthy.


16 posted on 06/27/2015 3:24:14 PM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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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.


17 posted on 06/27/2015 3:24:37 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.)
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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...


18 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...)
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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.


19 posted on 06/27/2015 3:24:52 PM PDT by 07Jack
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To: Lazamataz

Rebellion to centralized government.


20 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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