Quote:So... because genocide is worse than slavery we should only say no to Nazi flags, and not to Confederate ones?  Yes, that's actually my argument to why there's a difference between the swastika and the battle cross.



Sure, you might have been taught it wasn't about slavery.  Just as people in the middle east are taught that the holocaust is a myth.  So will you forgive them for believing what they were taught?  After 10 years of public education in the United States, 4 years of college, and watching Ken Burns epic documentary, I still hold the belief that the reasons for the Civil War are far more complex than just the North wanted slavery abolished and the South didn't.  I never said it wasn't about slavery.  I AM saying it wasn't just about slavery.



Free Speech is all fine and good.  Individuals should be able to fly the flag if they want (and people are free to think about them what they want to think as well).  The flag should not be honored by our government.  If an individual wants a confederate, nazi, or even ISIS flag, they should have that right.  Stores however have the right to refuse to sell them.  Why should our government honor a flag of a group that rebelled against it, and failed, especially when to many it's come to be a symbol of racism.Not just for the actions of confederates, but for the actions of other groups as well.  Is flying a Confederate flag over a confederate cemetary on state grounds "honoring" the flag, or honoring the dead?  My argument is to honor the dead.  By the way, I think it sucks that to many the flag has become a symbol of racism.  I would love to know what Robert E. Lee would have thought about that modern perception.