Ask people how they feel about the Confederate Flag and you won't get much, but, preempt it with a mass murder and you get the authentic response of the nation. Simple reports of banning the sale of Confederate flags provokes both the dull and the educated into answering "How do you feel about the federal government?"
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zothique ago
I grew up in Texas and now live in the South. Recent events seem targeted to attack the individuality and autonomy of individual states. I have no strong feelings about the Confederate flag, but I'm dismayed that the controversy has come about in this way, where the deeper agenda is about the federal government tightening its grip.
Solomon_Stone ago
I have no strong feelings about the flag either. However, I'm a bit perturbed that the atrocities of the Union and the United States as a whole are being overlooked by the general public - this ignorance is why I've finally made the leap to Voat. People(Redditors) don't want to believe that Lincoln delighted in the rape and murder of enemy civilians. He wasn't content with a victory, he systematically destroyed the Southern infrastructure and they are still recovering to this day. Sound familiar?
zothique ago
And the atrocities have continued unabated. A lot of people have noted how the flag controversy has distracted from the TPP vote, an agreement which benefits the corporate Beast and further erodes our "democracy". Ironically, this is a much more significant threat to the ideals people purport to uphold by railing against the confederate flag. Economic slavery is far more efficient than physical slavery, and that's the direction in which we've been headed. The irony is excruciating.