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No one is arguing that fact.....this isn't about what both flags might have once represented, it is about what they currently represent.
According to Louis Farrakhan, the Stars and Stripes represent white racism just as much as the Confederate flag represents white racism.
The fact is, you are willing to disregard and excuse what your side says was a horrible crime committed under one flag (the American flag), but not to disregard that same horrible crime when it was committed under a different flag (the Confederate flag.)
Your double standard completely negates both the logic and morality of your argument.
According to Louis Farrakhan, the Stars and Stripes represent white racism just as much as the Confederate flag represents white racism.
The fact is, you are willing to disregard and excuse what your side says was a horrible crime committed under one flag (the American flag), but not to disregard that same horrible crime when it was committed under a different flag (the Confederate flag.)
Your double standard completely negates both the logic and morality of your argument.
Again, you are talking in the historical sense, I am not.....not sure how I can make that any more clear to you....regardless, it is a double standard if that makes you happy, but that doesn't change my opinion or views on the Confederate flag in regards to how I have seen people use it in today's world.
According to Louis Farrakhan, the Stars and Stripes represent white racism just as much as the Confederate flag represents white racism.
The fact is, you are willing to disregard and excuse what your side says was a horrible crime committed under one flag (the American flag), but not to disregard that same horrible crime when it was committed under a different flag (the Confederate flag.)
Your double standard completely negates both the logic and morality of your argument.
No country is perfect, don't forget the United States abolished slavery and the Confederacy fought to preserve it. That changes the whole dynamic.
Sorry but you should read the last few pages of this thread.
The US did not abolish slavery until after the war and actually practiced it until that point.
The war was much larger than the "innocent" North wanting to free the slaves.
And Lincoln's own words said that preservation of the Union was all that mattered.
If freeing the slaves would do it then that's what he would do.
If keeping the slaves would do it then that's what he would do.
The only inflexibility Lincoln voiced was that no new states could be slave states.
On that he stood firm.
The war was about preserving the Union.
And that was completely unacceptable to southern states, a future they in which would be severely outnumbered by free states. That is how much the South wanted to keep slavery. The war may have been about preserving the union. The root cause of secession was slavery.
Last edited by Spartanguy; 06-26-2015 at 06:47 AM..
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