Rant: Flags, symbols, and history

[doe_boy]

A couple of blocks from where I live, I saw this flag flying.



Free country, what can you do?

Personally, I think it is perverse and idiotic in the extreme. It shows both a basic misunderstanding of this country's history and a crassness that goes beyond words.


Good God!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

I'm visiting my mother in upstate NY and have seen the 'Don't Tread on Me' yellow many times. But also surprised to see Confederate flags flying in here in the heart of proudly abolitionist and women's sufferage country. I feel like there is a significant percentage of the country that is coming unhinged.

[IMADreamer]

I once had a family that wanted me to put a Confederate flag on a tombstone. I told them I would not put a symbol of intolerance, hatred, stupidity, and bigotry on a tombstone. Not to mention it looked tacky as hell. They were kind of pissed and went elsewhere. Two years later after the wife of that husband died, the Grandfather came in and had me re do the stone in a more tasteful way.

[Freed Roger]

If the goal is to alienate themselves furthur, then the flag works.

[heyzeus]

This is a very popular bumper sticker where I live.



It will become much less popular once a black guy isn't in the White House any more.