The Confederate Flag is entirely legitimate as a symbol of Southern heritage. The flag itself is just a St. Andrews cross, the symbol of Scotland, with a red, white, and blue color scheme and stars in commemoration of the American flag, celebrating the unique role of the Scots-Irish in America, particularly the South. The Confederacy's support of slavery was of course indefensible, but it's worth noting that their world-historic crime really was just sticking with what just about every other civilization on Earth had been doing up until a couple of decades prior, and it's not as if the PC police are trying to shut down the commemoration of any of these other slave societies. Southerners have as much right to commemorate their culture and heritage as anyone else, and in fact most people with Confederate flags are not crazed white supremacists who shoot up black churches, but are either Southerners who want to preserve their heritage, or belong to certain "rebel" subcultures, like bikers, who use it as a symbol of rebellion. Either way it's sticking it to the establishment and making all the right people angry, so at least we should be able to enjoy that without having to pretend that Jefferson Davis was a libertarian angel or anything.
Even though I'm an ancap, to me, the flag represents secession which is a positive thing.
ReplyDeleteThe Confederate Flag is entirely legitimate as a symbol of Southern heritage. The flag itself is just a St. Andrews cross, the symbol of Scotland, with a red, white, and blue color scheme and stars in commemoration of the American flag, celebrating the unique role of the Scots-Irish in America, particularly the South. The Confederacy's support of slavery was of course indefensible, but it's worth noting that their world-historic crime really was just sticking with what just about every other civilization on Earth had been doing up until a couple of decades prior, and it's not as if the PC police are trying to shut down the commemoration of any of these other slave societies. Southerners have as much right to commemorate their culture and heritage as anyone else, and in fact most people with Confederate flags are not crazed white supremacists who shoot up black churches, but are either Southerners who want to preserve their heritage, or belong to certain "rebel" subcultures, like bikers, who use it as a symbol of rebellion. Either way it's sticking it to the establishment and making all the right people angry, so at least we should be able to enjoy that without having to pretend that Jefferson Davis was a libertarian angel or anything.
ReplyDeleteOnly flag I fly is the black and gold anarcho-capitalist flag.
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