I don't know if it's funny or not. I haven't seen it. Since there was a popular comedy show on TV a couple of decades ago about life in a NAZI POW camp, I suspect that some people can find humor in almost anything.
You know, 31,000 Tennesseans fought for the Union. There were only 400 Georgia Unionists. How does that make you feel, living in the USA and all?
Proud not to live in Tennessee what with the USA currently being 50% of a socialist police state and headed for 100% just as fast as the liberal Republicans and liberal Democrats can get us there.
There is no way to separate the CSA battle emblem from racism, treason, slavery -- and just being pitiful clueless losers. I'm sorry it doesn't suit you that I refuse to identify with that.
I couldn't care less what you associate with what. That's what is called "freedom." If you hate the confederate flag that's fine with me. Your credentials as a genuine southerner remind me of the gun control advocates who always start out saying that they were raised in a hunting family or some similar such twaddle. It's irrelevant. You think like a New Yorker. If you choose to think that withdrawing from a tyrannical central government was treasonous, then again I recommend that you move to a place where more people think just like you do.
And before you get onto a long boring tirade against racism etc., affirmative action is racism, but I don't see you spewing out your venom against the current federal government and it current flag that promulgates this current racism.
The most tyrannical act of the pre-1860 federal government -by far- was the Fugitive Slave Act --the slave states LOVED federal power when it helped them.
For one thing, the slave states had controlled the federal government for decades prior to the ACW. Manufacturing interests need protection -- tariffs. And yet tariffs in this country were LOWER in 1860 than they had been in 40 years. Does that sound like a tyrannical federal government? No. The fact is that the northerners had bent over backwards to maintain the Union, "crucifying", as Abraham Lincoln said in 1854 , "their feelings" in order to maintain their loyalty to the Union and the Constitution.
What the slave power took exception to (and this is plain in their secession documents) was the fact that people in the north were becoming more and more uncomfortable with slavery. Northern states had passed personal liberty laws. They had assisted escaped slaves. They had resisted slave catchers come north to return escaped slaves to their masters. And these actions the slave power found unacceptable. Yancey, one of the main workers in destroying the Democratic Party-- to ensure the election of Lincoln, didn't want northerners to be bothered by the stench of his negroes. He was glad to forestall that -- by breaking up the government of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Jackson.
You don't know the history, or you lie about it.
Walt