My niece graduated last year from a (now closed) conservative Christian college. Her friends would post things on Facebook like “we’re so lucky to go to a school where everyone thinks like we do!” (Paraphrased.) Weirdly, that college wasn’t good enough for her brothers. One went to a highly-ranked Christian college,…

college students can take charge of their education and remain steadfast in their beliefs

The misuse of “bias” for “biased” confounds me. I just started seeing it in the last few years.

“The tensions between the two ethnic groups on the island is, of course, a legacy of colonialism. Hispaniola was separated by Europeans interested in domination: Christopher Columbus landed with his Spaniards in 1492 (yup, that was us, not you, Florida!) to wipe out the indigenous Taino population; the French claimed…

Actually, I believe it’s only been flying at the Capitol since 1962. Yes, they put it up 50 years ago. Hmmm, wonder why?

Not only did Hunt say completely reprehensible things, but he couldn’t even figure out that you don’t tell a room full of female scientists at a professional conference that they are lovesick crybabies. This is not a guy who should be in charge of anything.

Too bad General Sherman’s troops weren’t as easy to take down as those straw men, huh?

That is complete BULLSHIT. Southerners know exactly what that flag symbolizes. Don’t try “peace-nikking”, “Can’t we all get along” your way out of this.

Nobody is talking about “banning” your stupid traitor flag. We’re talking about removing it from the grounds of the seat of a state government.

the war was about taxes and tarrifs

Excellent point. Also good to throw in the face of any dumbass revisionist who claims that slavery would have “melted away eventually” in the CSA. Nope. Not without ANOTHER civil war, it wouldn’t! It was literally unconstitutional to set the slaves free!

Grounds of the SC state house. Is that or is it not government property? Because it sounds like you’re making a distinction without a difference.

Those people who see it as “heritage” are basically saying they care more about the legacies of traitors that have been dead for over a hundred years than they do about the feelings of their fellow countrymen and women who are alive here today. If you’re truly not a racist, and truly want to make the point to black…

oh, so the square version is perfectly ok. i get it now. the square one doesn’t symbolize institutional racism and slavery, it’s only the rectangular one that does. conversations like this would be so much easier if they only had you around to clear up this little detail. we could have avoided all of the confusion and…

There’s something you may want to consider adding to the article. Please don’t take this wrong way, but it’s a pretty glaring omission to leave out the 1948 Democratic convention. That was the year that the Democratic Party, and President Harry S. Truman, adopted the first version of a civil rights platform into the…

But that is fine.

The war was about states rights. Specifically each states right to be able to own slaves. Anyone who says otherwise is fooling themselves.

Well ignoring it for 150 years hasn’t made it go away either, so what do you suggest?

The confederate flag is an embarrassment. It is a symbol of treason and secession for the purpose of keeping other human beings as slaves*. Folks in the South still putting the damn thing up everywhere is disgusting. It’s like if towns in Germany flew the swastika flag saying it’s “heritage.”