There actually is a logical reason. First, let me be clear that I am not opposed to people in American flying whatever flag they want as it is covered by (increasingly diminishing) freedom of speech. That being said, lets look at it another way. The Confederate flag is a symbol of southern states that seceded under the guise of states rights which really meant they wanted to keep slavery as it was the underpinning of the southern economy. A very costly war was fought and those states lost. Because the underlying issue was slavery, the flag - as a symbol of those southern states - also became a symbol of racism and slavery.
Look at the repulsion we all have when neo-Nazis fly the swastika flag. It is actually outlawed in Germany because of the message it sends. Is it possible to understand that the fear and disgust a Jew would feel walking past a swastika is the same that a Black person feels when they see the confederate flag? How about if you walked down the streets in Prague waving a hammer an sickle flag? Look at the outrage that was expressed when someone posted an article recently about an ISIS flag being flown in Minnesota. What about when we Christians see Jesus being mocked in picture or word?
I agree that we live in a country where policy is driven by faux outrage, that race-baiters make their livings by lurching from protest to protest. I also know, from talking with some very dear, conservative Black friends that the confederate flag is hurtful to them.
My grandfather had a saying - just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
i find it curious that the same sort of people who insist that the “confederate” flag must be hidden away so as not to offend anyone who could possibly be offended by it...
...also tend to be the kind of people who have little Darwin fish on the backs of their Priuses.