Posted on 06/25/2015 11:59:12 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The Chicago Reader is a FREE/throw away, faaaaaaaaar lefty, fish wrap paper.
Because the South didn’t have concentration camps where they executed Jews?
Because they are not the same thing.
I can still buy a swastika, not that I want one. Just sayin’.
“Why didn’t the Confederate battle flag go the way of the swastika?”
Why didn’t the Soviet flag? How many Americans were killed by communist in Korea and Vietnam? Last time I checked that was not 150 years ago.
Oh yeah. I'm sure that would have resulted in widespread feelings of tolerance, forgiveness & brotherly love among all the participants...
It wasn’t just the Jews that Hitler ordered “cleansed” from German society, it was all opposition or potential opposition - sound familiar?
Maybe William Tecumseh Sherman had something to do with it?
Well the commies ARE the current political parties. (Yes, both of them)
The swastika may be forbidden in Germany, but it is not forbidden in the United States. That is because [until recently] we enjoyed freedom of speech in the United States - even the freedom to use hateful, hurtful speech.
Because Confederates were not Nazis but fellow Americans, champions of civil rights—who insisted on the Bill of Rights and accepted the federalists’ blandishments ... and the great majority of whom were non-slave holders, with the courage of their convictions who said, like America’s founding fathers:
“If we have to choose between your federation or going back to the confederation, once again—if we must choose between freedom and death, we choose to fight.”
?
Lefties and debate ... it’s like trying to talk 19th century English jurisprudence with an Irish setter:
OK Ginger, why do you think Austin was an act utilitarian, opposed to Mills’ rule utility, and compare both to Kant’s categorical imperativism? Slap your paw on the ground twice girl, OK, if you ....
“We have to pass the legislation so we can begin determining how much we can squeeze from you wage slaves ...” Nanzi Pelosi
And yet those liberals who condemn a historical flag have no shame wearing a Che (a slimy communist genocidal POS if there ever was one!) T-shirt.
That flag belonged in a museum since the end of the Civil War. Glad to see finally on its way there.
...Talk of nazis....
Slaveowners were an earlier version of the National Socialist German Workingmen’s Party? That is definitely news to me.
People may not know it, but the various states (Laender) of Germany were very jealous of their power, still are, because they were there long before there was anything like a German nation. The Nazi regime was nowhere near having a unified and undying support of all the citizens of these various Laender, and despite of a widely held belief, a lot of good German folk really did not like the system forced upon them. But dissent was widely suppressed, as the consequences were uncommonly severe, and the Germans paid a cruel price for the intransigence of those in the regime. It was the revulsion expressed by the Germans themselves that drove the Nazi symbols into near oblivion, and even today it is illegal to display any of those symbols ANYWHERE in Germany.
The battle standard of Northern Virginia, on the other hand, was a symbol of faded glory, a symbol of something that many of the citizens of the South saw as an honorable and even commendable expression of independent initiative and and a greater ideal, that of states’ rights. That the states’ rights got conflated with the preservation of slavery, is purely the harvest of fruits of the DEMOCRATS that ran the southern states from the end of Reconstruction (about 1875) until the time of the Civil Rights act of 1965.
Because they are not the same thing.
Very true, they are just flags. The entity that should have gone the way of the swastika and Nazi party; the party that gave us slavery, the war, the KKK, etc; the democrat party.
They are and always have been our own National Socialists.
The party should have been outlawed, hunted down, and extinguished (like the Nazis) in 1865 and its leadership North and South publicly executed.
Because, unlike the Nazis, The South Was Right!
Whenever the leftist/liberal media doesn't like something they always inevitably tie it to the swastika or Nazi's ....
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