Originally Posted by
Sandinista
Confederate flag hate is an useless, trendy exercise in selective outrage. The Bars and Stripes flew over a racist, white-supremacist nation for 4 years. The Stars and Stripes that you all love today flew over a racist, white-supremacist nation for 89 years. If you're gonna hate a flag for its connection to prejudice and genocide then you might as well ban all flags in our planet considering the vast majority of nation states have prejudice and genocide woven in their historic DNA. The Japanese flag flew over the killing of millions of Chinese civilians. The Union Jack symbolized racism for Indians for almost 100 years. Are we protesting those flags too and insisting they be banned from public display in the United States? That's what I thought...