No one advocates erasing the flag from existence. They just want it recognized for what it is. A Symbol for Slavery, treason, racism, hate, anti americanism, and failure.

The poor swastika. It spent centuries as a perfectly benign spiritual symbol and then a few assholes ruin it for everybody. Also tiny mustaches can never come back, no matter how well they fit your face.

Well an overt plutocracy holding half its population in life sentences of hard labor based on race is has got to be in the running.

The East Tennessee thing is soooo true. I live in TN and most of my family is in East TN. I confronted a drunk stupid uncle (you have one too I’m sure) with the fact that East TN was against secession and mostly abolitionist, and I am pretty sure he shit himself.

I think you are both right. Lots of the stupider confed fans, are just hugging a symbol to compensate for the perpetual shame associated with being southern. These same guys will mimimize slavery, or jom crow and deny racism mostly becuase of good old white fragility. They are pathetic and uninformed. Others overtly…

I have to admit that the Civil War LARPers come in all stripes. There are those that are actually into the history and will reenact both sides, and do not sugar coat the facts, and those that are seriously confederate crazy

“No hate in a good biscuit” Is my new catch phrase

Um. Hmm Okay, I can see that. I guess when I saw wypipo, I automatically excluded myself. You know...because I’m one of the good ones.

Always crazy that. Its like women who say that all women should defer to men, and that feminism is bad. Or children of immigrants complaining about immigrants. It always boggles my mind when people embrace the symbols of their oppressors. Its like “respectability politics” os maybe Stockholm syndrome. Its Just…

Meh,... maybe. Its just that its only the head line, not the article. So I am not sure how much “harm” it causes. I mean the article specifies the pro-confederate folks, so it doesn’t look like anyone assumed anything.

ooooo. That would be a great interview.

One could argue that Wypipo is a specific subset of White people.

“those people are either lying or they are stupid.”

There is. Dyscalcula. Check it out and get tested. It might change your life!

Uh. Okay. I get it. I never said that it wasn’t an out of date photo, merely that I did not see from the photo how it was automatically not a recent photo. I honestly did not and still do not think that the kid’s face in that photo was obviously too young for 15. I mean I have seen fifteen year olds that look 30 and…

Still not getting why so many people think this photo could not be a 15yo. Im not saying either way, but why not?

Wouldn’t ethical journalism mean letting the family give you a photo and just say this is a photo from the family?

When you hear those gunshots at a shooting range, do you then assume that a car nearby (that you cannot see into) must be the source, and must be shot at?

Good points, but also who cares what it sounded like. When you look at the car, and dont see a gun...keep looking. When it starts backing up, have the basic sense to know that reverse gear does not mean “I am armed”

“Race is only a problem in this country to those who make it an issue. Namely those who can benefit from it by trying to find ways that they can make any incident have a racial lean to it.”