(June 24, 2015 at 8:50 am)Rhythm Wrote: They were Americans, and rebels......like a certain group of Americans before them, and they were fighting because they were told the Union soldiers were coming to take their land and rape their women (and that they would win glory, and honor, and all the things we tell our soldiers -today-), not for states rights, not for a constitution, not even to defend the institution of slavery. That's what they were -used- for. I'm under no illusions about the morality of the south in that time -or this time-...but I;m also under no illusions about the morality of the north in that time or this time. Again, that was not the flag of a nation, but the battle flag of a combat unit.
I have no argument with that at all. But the cause served by the units hoisting that flag taints it. Flags are symbols, like it or not. And that flag is a symbol of more than just Confederate
(June 24, 2015 at 8:50 am)Rhythm Wrote: The people who flew that flag simply were not the bad men we have made them out to be, but, history being written by the victor - it's understandable that many see them that way (and of course we don't see our soldiers today as villains, despite being used as thugs for the oil industry and equally shitty moneyed interests as those present in the institution of slavery).
Oh, I'm not criticizing those soldiers. I well know that they fought for various reasons. I was commenting on the flag.
