There's also our Civil War, after which Southerners apparently were more eager than Northerners or Westerners to enlist in the armed forces of the country that had just defeated them and their parents.
There's also our Civil War, after which Southerners apparently were more eager than Northerners or Westerners to enlist in the armed forces of the country that had just defeated them and their parents.
And yet...and yet...the Confederate Flag continues to terrify modern-day yutes, despite the War of Northern Aggression having been won by the aggressors. That would be all them Yankee forebears. I think they too must take on moral guilt, them yutes. Sins of the fathers.
I've often wondered about that, and I'm looking at it from across the pond.
What is the reason for this? Even here in Britain the confederate flag is seen as a symbol of hate, which is obviously absurd.
Is this just conditioning at work? Those who hate the confederate flag also dislike statues of Robert E Lee. But I suspect they also hate statues of Churchill and Queen Victoria too.
As a Yankee who now lives in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee, I believe there is a mismatch of the intent of those who display the CSA flag and the liberals who observe it. There are 3 principal reasons why the flag is still displayed: (1) Generational anger at the Carthaginian-level of destruction brought by Grant and Sherman to the civilian population of the South; (2) As a middle finger to pearl-clutching liberals who expand Federal intrusion at every opportunity; and (3) as a тАЬrose-colored glassesтАЭ remembrance of a bygone era.
My favorite experience on the subject was seeing the Stars & Bars plate on the front of a Prius. Talk about cognitive dissonanceтАж
I think deep down the reason progs hate the confederate flag, whether they realize it or not, is that it reminds them that there is another option besides compliance if they push too hard for their technocratic utopia.
That and they generally hate history because its remembrance gets in the way of their desire to remake reality and human nature in their own image.
You cannot produce a homogeneous cosmopolitan utopia when people insist on retaining their distinct culture, traditions, backgrounds, and everything else that makes them different from other groups.
Maybe this is reading too much into it, but it tracks. And I don't think the visceral animalistic terror and rage that the confederate flag provokes in yank progs can be explained by a simple abstract difference in interpretation.
They have been taught this symbolism, of course. It's actually a flag that reflects pride of the South, having absolutely nothing to do with racism or slavery or any of that.
Since subtlety of thought and blurring of lines is not a part of modern education, almost no one knows that Lee didn't support the war, but he did support the South.
There's also our Civil War, after which Southerners apparently were more eager than Northerners or Westerners to enlist in the armed forces of the country that had just defeated them and their parents.
The Civil War has the counterexample of "redemption," and the compelled ending of Reconstruction. It's a tough example to apply.
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And yet...and yet...the Confederate Flag continues to terrify modern-day yutes, despite the War of Northern Aggression having been won by the aggressors. That would be all them Yankee forebears. I think they too must take on moral guilt, them yutes. Sins of the fathers.
I've often wondered about that, and I'm looking at it from across the pond.
What is the reason for this? Even here in Britain the confederate flag is seen as a symbol of hate, which is obviously absurd.
Is this just conditioning at work? Those who hate the confederate flag also dislike statues of Robert E Lee. But I suspect they also hate statues of Churchill and Queen Victoria too.
As a Yankee who now lives in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee, I believe there is a mismatch of the intent of those who display the CSA flag and the liberals who observe it. There are 3 principal reasons why the flag is still displayed: (1) Generational anger at the Carthaginian-level of destruction brought by Grant and Sherman to the civilian population of the South; (2) As a middle finger to pearl-clutching liberals who expand Federal intrusion at every opportunity; and (3) as a тАЬrose-colored glassesтАЭ remembrance of a bygone era.
My favorite experience on the subject was seeing the Stars & Bars plate on the front of a Prius. Talk about cognitive dissonanceтАж
I think deep down the reason progs hate the confederate flag, whether they realize it or not, is that it reminds them that there is another option besides compliance if they push too hard for their technocratic utopia.
That and they generally hate history because its remembrance gets in the way of their desire to remake reality and human nature in their own image.
You cannot produce a homogeneous cosmopolitan utopia when people insist on retaining their distinct culture, traditions, backgrounds, and everything else that makes them different from other groups.
Maybe this is reading too much into it, but it tracks. And I don't think the visceral animalistic terror and rage that the confederate flag provokes in yank progs can be explained by a simple abstract difference in interpretation.
Next you will tell us they had BLM and LBGTQ+ bumper stickers!
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They have been taught this symbolism, of course. It's actually a flag that reflects pride of the South, having absolutely nothing to do with racism or slavery or any of that.
Since subtlety of thought and blurring of lines is not a part of modern education, almost no one knows that Lee didn't support the war, but he did support the South.
Yes it is conditioning and ignorance at work.