Quote:You can probably find the answer in your very own post.  300,000+ southerners lost their lives and countless more seriously injured which means they have a lot of descendants who relate with the "Don't tread on me" mindset.  If the North had lost and the South annexed the United States, you would probably see war memorials tributed to the North and US Flags by groups of people.  The history would probably be different too - probably along the lines of how we rose up against tyranny twice in 100 years.  The victor writes the history.

 

Just because someone doesn't like something, doesn't mean they should try and take it from people who do.  Live and let live and get over it.  I don't fly the Confederate Flag, nor have me or my family ever owned anything Confederate related, but I respect the right of people who do.

 

 

But it was their own fault they lost those 300,000 + lives.

 

As to your closing statement, I have two responses.  First, lowering the Confederate flag from the state capitol in South Carolina does not, has not, and will not ever, on its own, infringe upon the rights of private individuals to fly it on their own property.  To suggest otherwise is patently disingenuous.  Secondly, to the extent that people choose to put any idea, including the ideas represented by the Confederate flag, into the proverbial marketplace of ideas, one of the costs associated with such a move is possible criticism of the idea you are floating.  Confederate apologists want to be able to fly their flag unfettered by the well deserved criticism that goes along with it.

 

May they rot, too.

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