isten to Dixie-bashing bloggers like Kevin Levin, Andy Hall, Brooks Simpson and Corey Meyer and you'd think the Virginia flaggers are completely ineffective activists or self-absorbed attention seekers.The flags aren't back up at the Pelham Chapel. The UDC has sicced the law on the flaggers. The MoC/Appomattox has ignored them. Thus, flagging is unproductive.
What we have here is the infantile mindset, "If I don't know about it, it doesn't exist.," or "...it hasn't happened."
We also see among the critics folks whose patience isn't as long as their p--pinky. Changing public perception and opinion doesn't happen overnight, or in a few months, and sometimes not for years. I'm sure the Dixie-bashing bloggers know this, but when your aim is to insult and denigrate, truth is the last thing you care about.
If the experience and history of the Georgia Flaggers are anything to go by, there's more to the phenomenon that staging public flaggings. A lot of hard (and effective) work takes place off the sidewalk and many successes aren't known to the public.
But the major visible accomplishment of the Virginia flaggers is that they are desensitizing the public to the image of the flag that has been the object of removal campaigns from one end of Dixie to the other. In the minds of observers, they are associating the flag with ordinary, decent folks and not the scum-sucking racists people have been conditioned to associate with the flag.
That has to be distressing to folks are dedicated to dishonoring and evilizing the flag to justify its removal from the Southern landscape. There's nothing they'd like more than to see it stashed in the bottom drawer in the dank, cobwebby basement of some museum.
The emergence of the flaggers means the accomplishment of that goal is no longer as certain as it once was.
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Photo source: Confederate Flaggers Facebook Group
"Listen to Dixie-bashing bloggers like Kevin Levin, Andy Hall, Brooks Simpson and Corey Meyer and you'd think the Virginia flaggers are completely ineffective activists or self-absorbed attention seekers."
ReplyDeleteHeck you don't even have to goto those blogs to hear all this nonsense you can check out a few "southern people's" facebook comments who are suppose to be "your friend" and hear the same thing.
One thing the Bashers don't take into account is the on the street conversations that we have with people. Explaining why we are there and what we are doing !
ReplyDeleteWe have influnced a number of folks to see what the VMAF is doing wrong! And for the most part the feedback from folks on the Blvd has been positive! Sure we get called names and get the "Your # 1 " finger, but then we smile and wave! Ya gotta consider the source of that reaction !
All in all it's a positive program that keeps the Battle Flag in view, and out of the dusty back corners of the museum! IOt's a good thing !