You can disagree with what the flag means but the flag has its history and you cannot disconnect the flag from the history no matter how many memes to the contrary you produce.
Could you be more precise about this selective and truncated history...this is something you always fail to do. You claim we have the flag's history wrong but you never provide proof to the contrary.
We have not demonized anyone...we have only used their words and actions to show what those who support the flag really think and feel.
Honorable Heritage? Defense of Slavery is an Honorable Heritage? Since when?
You can disagree with what the flag means but the flag has its history and you cannot disconnect the flag from the history no matter how many memes to the contrary you produce.
Corey, that is precisely what the critics do when they totally define the Old South, the Confederacy and the war by only three terms -- slavery; slavery, slavery.
When they talk about the 20th Century and bring up lynching, segregation, civil rights and such, they are disconnecting the flag from the rest of its 20th Century history and symbolism. Deliberately.
Why? Because they do not want it acknowledged. For example, the NAACP is interested only in those parts of the flag's history that portrays their constituency as victims, as a segment of the population everyone else should feel sorry for, and white Southerners as motivated solely, or at least mainly, by racism and hatred. If the history doesn't do that, they don't want it acknowledged.
Could you be more precise about this selective and truncated history...this is something you always fail to do.
I'm very precise about it and I do it all the time. In fact, I just did it again, above. If you're not smart enough to grasp it, I'm not going to dumb it down for you.
You claim we have the flag's history wrong but you never provide proof to the contrary.
You have the flag's history wrong because your version of the flag's history is incomplete -- i.e., selective and truncated -- but you are passing it off as the entire history. That's not just wrong, it is deliberately deceptive. Lies.
We have not demonized anyone...we have only used their words and actions to show what those who support the flag really think and feel.
You rarely use their words and actions to show what supporters of the flag think and feel. Many times, you give THEIR words YOUR meaning, and condemn them based on YOUR meanings, not theirs. Other times, you attribute the words of one or two people to other individuals who never said anything remotely like it; or to entire groups... or to everyone who supports Confederate heritage. You also demonize people for not being a leftist social justice warrior and spewing condemnation of others. Person A says something unseemly, and you point at Person B and spew hatred and condemnation of him for not pointing and spewing at Person A. Never mind Person B has never said anything remotely like A's unseemly comment. Your aim is to palm them off as indistinguishable.
There are multitudes of people who support the flag whose words and actions you never mention or acknowledge. There are many heritage folks on Facebook whose comments you and DeStroy could easily access, copy and broadcast, but you don't, because you can't demonize anybody with them. But ignoring them means you are knowingly painting a false image of the heritage community, and you are doing it from a contemptible motive.
Honorable Heritage? Defense of Slavery is an Honorable Heritage? Since when?
That's is a blue-ribbon example of the selective and truncated history I was talking about.
You can disagree with what the flag means but the flag has its history and you cannot disconnect the flag from the history no matter how many memes to the contrary you produce.
ReplyDeleteCould you be more precise about this selective and truncated history...this is something you always fail to do. You claim we have the flag's history wrong but you never provide proof to the contrary.
We have not demonized anyone...we have only used their words and actions to show what those who support the flag really think and feel.
Honorable Heritage? Defense of Slavery is an Honorable Heritage? Since when?
Cory i thought you were a history teacher but I see you're just an idiot. If anyone is truncating history it's you.
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You can disagree with what the flag means but the flag has its history and you cannot disconnect the flag from the history no matter how many memes to the contrary you produce.
ReplyDeleteCorey, that is precisely what the critics do when they totally define the Old South, the Confederacy and the war by only three terms -- slavery; slavery, slavery.
When they talk about the 20th Century and bring up lynching, segregation, civil rights and such, they are disconnecting the flag from the rest of its 20th Century history and symbolism. Deliberately.
Why? Because they do not want it acknowledged. For example, the NAACP is interested only in those parts of the flag's history that portrays their constituency as victims, as a segment of the population everyone else should feel sorry for, and white Southerners as motivated solely, or at least mainly, by racism and hatred. If the history doesn't do that, they don't want it acknowledged.
Could you be more precise about this selective and truncated history...this is something you always fail to do.
I'm very precise about it and I do it all the time. In fact, I just did it again, above. If you're not smart enough to grasp it, I'm not going to dumb it down for you.
You claim we have the flag's history wrong but you never provide proof to the contrary.
You have the flag's history wrong because your version of the flag's history is incomplete -- i.e., selective and truncated -- but you are passing it off as the entire history. That's not just wrong, it is deliberately deceptive. Lies.
We have not demonized anyone...we have only used their words and actions to show what those who support the flag really think and feel.
You rarely use their words and actions to show what supporters of the flag think and feel. Many times, you give THEIR words YOUR meaning, and condemn them based on YOUR meanings, not theirs. Other times, you attribute the words of one or two people to other individuals who never said anything remotely like it; or to entire groups... or to everyone who supports Confederate heritage. You also demonize people for not being a leftist social justice warrior and spewing condemnation of others. Person A says something unseemly, and you point at Person B and spew hatred and condemnation of him for not pointing and spewing at Person A. Never mind Person B has never said anything remotely like A's unseemly comment. Your aim is to palm them off as indistinguishable.
There are multitudes of people who support the flag whose words and actions you never mention or acknowledge. There are many heritage folks on Facebook whose comments you and DeStroy could easily access, copy and broadcast, but you don't, because you can't demonize anybody with them. But ignoring them means you are knowingly painting a false image of the heritage community, and you are doing it from a contemptible motive.
Honorable Heritage? Defense of Slavery is an Honorable Heritage? Since when?
That's is a blue-ribbon example of the selective and truncated history I was talking about.
Bravo Connie!
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