Well. Looks like I am the dick head. Apologies and thanks for your service.

No need, the Navy’s stellar year in the news is plenty enough.

Disclaimer: 12 years Active Duty Navy service. So that’s (former) Petty Officer Dickhead to you.

Actually, that flag was resigned to the dustbin of history until Senator Strom Thurmond used it in a racist run for senate. It has never been about heritage, that is a lie perpetuated by white supremacists to make it palatable to the general public, and it worked.

SOUTH CAROLINA- ...A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common…

Nobody here is arguing that the Civil War revolved solely around the issue of slavery. But it was indeed one of the biggest aspects, and there’s no arguing that. I assume you’re read the articles of secession, all of which mention slavery and the subjugation of black people as main reasons for why they were seceding.…

Oh shit everybody... A university student has arrived! Everybody shut up and listen, were all about to LEARN SOMETHING!!

Wow, so taking a History 101 class makes you qualified to determine the motivations of the Confederacy? Well, I guess we’ll just have to ignore the reams of actual History professors who say otherwise.

If hearing that something that falls somewhere in-between “stupid” and “offensive” for millions upon millions of people is crappy branding counts as a “lecture” that hurts you, perhaps some toughening-up of your own is in order, chum?

That was a lecture? Why so sensitive about an observation that choosing the name “confederate” for your motorcycle company might limit your branding, and was therefore a shitty idea from the start?

Lecture?

If my ancestors had been enslaved for hundreds of years, later freed but oppressed, and later legally granted rights but still oppressed by a system of institutionalized racism, I wouldn’t think I was being overly sensitive.