RE: 1. Taxpayer money should not be going to Confederate crap. Not everyone agrees with it. It offends a good percent of the population.
Well, not everyone agrees with taking it down as well and it has been there for over a century. The fact that you call it crap does not mean that others don’t hold it up with respect as a symbol of their heritage.
So your explanation does not compute -— just because something offends does not mean it should be taken down.
There are quite a number of people who are offended by the stars and stripes as well... do we simply take down something because it offends people?
What about those who take offense at the taking down of the Confederate flag? Their feelings don’t count at all?
RE: 2. This is the USA, not the CSA.
Even those who support the putting up of the Confederate flag acknowledge that this is the USA. So, how does keeping it up repudiate the fact that we are in the USA? You can respect the Confederate Flag and still consider yourself a citizen of the USA. I don’t see how this has to be in conflict.
RE: The government is supposed to endorse America and American stuff, not the Confederacy and anything of that ilk.
But why is putting up the Confederate Flag opposing the American flag? Why can’t the two of them BOTH fly?
#. It represents an ugly period of our history.
Well, the Stars and Stripes represents an ugly period in our history as well. The Confederate flag only flew for a few years during the Civil war as a symbol of Southern Resistance against Northern aggression.
The Stars and Stripes on the other hand FLEW OVER SLAVE TRANSPORTING SHIPS from overseas for periods LONGER than the existence of the Confederate flag.
Question — what do you consider one an ugly part of history yet neglect the other that was similarly flying during an ugly part of our history?
Why this selective outrage?
I await your response...