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"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 82 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Wait until you see the Confederate flags in PA. Ya know, where the battle of Gettysburg happened. Very much not a southern state. It's wild seeing this shit in my neighborhood.

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  • [–] 89 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Confederate flags are in canada and California, it’s just a flag for racists to roleplay with, the confederacy won’t rise again anywhere.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It won't "rise again" but the spirit of it absolutely has resurfaced in other forms, and will continue too so long as a significant number of people in this country identify with white supremacy and abject hatred.

    The original KKK were effectively the remnants of the Confederate army + new recruits. And it's continued to find new banners in the generations since.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So much not a southern state that its bottom border is literally the Mason-Dixon line. Some people are, indeed, whack.

    I have seen Confederate battle flags flying on trucks and houses in and around Gettysburg, no less. I get the impression that people are not doing this for historical reenactment purposes...

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It means something else to those who fly them, generally speaking. Think Dukes of Hazzard more than Slavery.

    Not saying its right, but thats how they see it.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think that's anywhere close to universally true but even if it is that's only one more example of why we should never listen to those kinds of people. That opinion is dumb, inaccurate, shallow, and more than a little white-washed.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    This is similar to the line my neighbor tried to pull. He had one of those half-and-half flags that was the US flag on one side and Confederate battle flag on the other. Somebody came by in the dead of night and stole it. It became a big hoopla on the block. He tried to tell me, "It's got nothing to do with racism. It's just a rebel flag because we're just rebels in general and ain't nobody tell us what to do."

    So have an anarchy flag or fly the Jolly Roger or something instead. For fuck's sake. I don't know if he actually believes that line of shit, or if it's just a cover. (He also has a Trump election sign, one of those corrugated plastic ones, stuck in his screen door. So I suspect the latter.)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    No, it's actually true that a lot of people don't really think it through. I personally talked a friend out of flying it by appealing to how it might make others feel. It honestly hadn't really occurred to him. Now granted, said friend is semi-literate at best, but he is a genuinely kind and decent human being who just didn't know anything else.

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