Bud, I don't see her arguing that it should be illegal. She's arguing that it's in poor taste -- like her t-shirt. (I've seen a t-shirt that's in even worse taste, which was a backlash against the one she had in school).
You can agree with her or not. (I don't think I have a vote in this, I am a Yankee whose ancestors were all still overseas in 1865, so the deep feeling on both sides over the confederate battle flag doesn't really connect). But she isn't calling for a law against the plates, or the flag, for that matter. I think he's being pretty reasonable.
A lot of people are unaware of just how bad slavery really was. As Clayton Cramer points out, only one state passed a law against masters raping their slaves. Mississippi. In 1859. And, oh, yeah, that was only if she was under 12. In the rest of the slave states (including Union Maryland for example), and at all other times, raping your slaves, even children, was droit du seigneur. A peculiar institution indeed.
I don't think I'm indulging in political correctness here. It's morally wrong now, but it was morally wrong then. And I have to believe that in their hearts even those who defended it knew it.
For the flag ever to mean anything, the SCV and others that would display it need to find a way to separate the inspiration of Lee and Jackson, and the heroism of the Southern soldier, from the institution that was at the core of all the war's issues.
d.o.l.
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