Is This Just A Knee-Jerk Reaction?

[anotheoldgit]

Just because some mentally disarranged person has committed a horrific crime, is this a sound reason to no longer fly the historic Confederate flag?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/06/confederate-flag

[Svejk]

No.

[bazwillrun]

No

[Old_Geezer]

It is worth the debate. It is historic after all. And I think they think it might encourage acts of racist violence, as part of the southern tradition. Whether it does or not, I don't know.

[woofgang]

IMO its kind of the same as not using a swastika. Whatever people feel about it now, there is no arguing what it stood for. OTOH I don't think that ceasing to fly the Confederate flag will do anything to improve the US's problem with guns.

[Gromit]

The Confederate States lost the War 250 years ago. The flag should not be flown on State buildings. It should have been discontinued years ago on official Government business.

If people want to fly it at their homes then that is fine, but it has been adapted by white supremacists rather like the extreme right in the UK have latched on to nazis iconography.

[Svejk]

And the English flag, eh, gromit?

[Old_Geezer]

In fairness, England is still a country, albeit in a union. I may be wrong but I don't think the southern states ever was a single nation, it was independence for each state that they were fighting for.

[Svejk]

Such images would never be adapted by Labour, would they?

http://twitter.com/KimJongCamerUn/status/612237401923158016/photo/1

[Svejk]

http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/Whitstable-Labour-councillor-sorry-controversial/story-26743504-detail/story.html

[Broseph]

/ is this a sound reason to no longer fly the historic Confederate flag?/

You obviously do not have a sound in depth knowledge of the flags history,it's links to the kkk and slavery.

[Broseph]

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/615/175/c17.jpg

[Broseph]

Let's try and stick to the op and leave the teaching for when we're at school in front of pupils.

[Broseph]

I think this and the many other similar images speaks volumes

https://thatdevilhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/rebel-klan.jpg

[Broseph]

/Now you've gone and spoilt it./

Apologies db as I'm just trying to stick to the op and not give members a reassuring pat on the back for straying off the op.

[VHG]

>>>The Confederate States lost the War 250 years ago

Did they?

I thought the war ended in 1865, about 150 years ago.

[Gromit]

vhg,
Yep should have been 150 years. It's still enough time to get over it.