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Question: Which of the following do you sanction?
#1
Removing the Confederate flag from public grounds and license plates
 
#2
Removing Confederate monuments from public grounds
 
#3
Removing Confederate names from roads, bridges, highways, schools, etc
 
#4
Getting rid of Confederate History Month
 
#5
Getting rid of Confederate holidays
 
#6
Forbidding private homeowners from flying the Confederate flag on their property
 
#7
Other (please specify, in case I missed anything)
 
#8
NOTA
 
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Mechaman
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« on: June 30, 2015, 08:49:40 AM »

I'm okay with it being in the History Books.  Otherwise, we run a very real mistake of repeating the past.

Other than that?  I don't really care.
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Mechaman
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« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2015, 12:11:22 PM »
« Edited: June 30, 2015, 01:57:11 PM by Mechaman »

I'm fine with showing these symbols in ways and forms that don't entail an endorsement. History books and other displays for factual purposes are obviously OK. Flying a flag out of your house is of course very different. Can you imagine a German flying a Nazi flag out of their house?

I would argue against all open displays of nationalism, of course.  I for one don't celebrate a flag of a country founded by largely deluded religious fundamentalists who thought my ancestors were "vermin".  I don't know why some people make exceptions just because "my country tis of thee."

Point being, we need to stop making exceptions for this sort of disgusting behavior.
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