Please Explain Confederate Pride to Me

americanthinker ^ | June 25, 2015 | Carole Jackson

[PROCON]

There's really no logical reason liberals want to attack the flag and the Confederacy other than it makes them feel bad.

[Gaffer]

It isn’t so much “Confederate Pride” as it is a deep down distrust and disdain for arrogant Yankees who cluster like rats in large cities and congratulate themselves that they are so far more civilized than those ignorant disgusting rednecks from the south.

[reg45]

Ditto!

[DoodleDawg]

It does not take much to imagine how black people feel when they see this Confederate statue or walk past it.

So you can't imagine how a Confederate flag supporter feels but you can imagine how a black person feels? Really?

I don't understand why a person can be so supportive of the Confederacy either. But unlike this author I don't try to. There are a lot of things about me that a Confederate flag supporter probably wouldn't understand either, and since they have the courtesy to not pass judgement on those then the least I can do is keep my mouth shut about their attachment to their cause.

[Tupelo]

Ditto to your Ditto.

[PROCON]

I see, so it's the typical, "I'm Haarrrvard educated and live in the civilized world, you redneck, backward hick."

Typical liberal arrogance.

[ViLaLuz]

There’s also the wisdom of remembering history and taking lesson.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Amen!

[central_va]

The premise the defying FedGov™ is a concept totally alien to some people. The republic is dead in them.

[Constitution Day]

Preach it!

[Michael.SF.]

It’s not about understanding, it’s about tolerance. If supporters of the Confederate flag are required to tolerate all liberal notions, why can they not be asked the same?

Answer: hypocrites

[Gaffer]

It's a collection of a whole lot of things. The problem is that it isn't a collection of Harvard liberals who have that attitude. It is a significant number of them.

Take Comedians doing a show in NYC. The favorite guaranteed go-to joke is the typical ignorant, racist, hick redneck. They all laugh and approve - applaud. The truth is that most of them are arrogant, self-absorbed self-pleasing dilettantes that have to work 2 jobs and live in a sh!thole apartment so they can go out and indulge themselves with like minded bigots.

[Sasparilla]

The statue made them feel terrible. They did not want their children to have to walk past it as they entered and left the public library. They begged the powers-that-be to please at least move it, if not destroy it altogether.

Like the Taliban blowing up centuries old Buddah statues because they offend them.

Or, ISIS destroying history.

[Paladin2]

Yep, This:

is the southern (and later) version of this:

Guess who's next on the list?

[Patriot365]

Ditto! From an Unreconstructed Southerner!

[BigCinBigD]

Because this is our land and you’re on it. Yankee trash.

[Yosemitest]

Yes, there IS a REASON.
It's to DISTRACT from what they;re REALLY TRYING TO PASSS, AMNESTY and a TRADE BILL that ain't about TRADE.
It's about bringing more RADICAL MUSLIMS into this country at the wishes of the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF.

This is just to keep busy about the WRONG SUBJECTS !
We COULD confront the DISHONEST writer of this article and answer her questions, but WHY?
It only diverts us away from the REAL PROBLEMS in this country, while the COMMUNISTS DESTROY US !

[PghBaldy]

In the minds of the Left, Confederate = white, Yankee = black or non-racist white. They hate white people, they hate this country. They will attack everything that is meaningful to whites other than them. They control most institutions in this country, legal and illegal.

[PROCON]

Like the Taliban blowing up centuries old Buddah statues because they offend them.

Yes, no difference, and both based on religious beliefs; the false religions of islam and of the church of liberalism.

[lacrew]

Step 1: Don’t fall into the trap and accept as fact that the secession movement was only about slavery

Step 2: You’re done