I don't understand; why do people defend things such as the confederate flag

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Really? Because the only question in his diatribe is a rhetorical one which calls people who support the confederate flag bad people

There's a reason for that: People who support the Confederate flag are bad people, no exceptions. Wanting to display the emblem of a culture that condoned and embraced human chattelism makes you a bad person, full stop. The Confederacy was formed when states seceded from the Union because they wanted to perpetuate their imagined right to hold human beings as property.

Slavery is a bad thing. Embracing a culture that embraced it makes you a bad person. This isn't difficult.

Boru