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I 100% agree with the OP. Hold your ground and stand up for your opinion. You are perfectly within your rights to speak your piece. Don't ever let those who disagree with sway you, just because they are noisy.
What happened un Ferguson wasnt even illegal. What happened in Baltimore. ..those cops are gonna be found not guilty.
What "happened" in Charleston was far FAR worse and was true evil.
Yes it was far worse and the circumstances were about as different as they can get in these types of situations; the only thing they have in common is that people died. The comparison here is completely invalid.
I 100% agree with the OP. Hold your ground and stand up for your opinion. You are perfectly within your rights to speak your piece. Don't ever let those who disagree with sway you, just because they are noisy.
The OP can have whatever opinion he wants to have on the Charleston massacre, the response, or the flag. No one is arguing that. However, suggesting that people outside the state with opinions on the flag should shut up because they aren't from around here is ridiculous. This is national news about a topic of national interest.
We as South Carolinians have love for one another...outsiders who need a story can't see it that way. Or outsiders coming to stir up crap on either side.
See here's the funny thing for all you outsiders that want to give their oh so expert and world changing opinion on this topic...it means literally nothing. This Confederate Flag flying over the South Carolina Statehouse can only be altered, or changed by those residing in the beautiful area between the Savannah River and the Atlantic Ocean and oh by the way, the issue can and will be handled in a manor that is respectful and peaceful to our fellow South Carolinaians, regardless of differing viewpoints.
So for all of those who want to come and stir the pot because they have nothing better to do in their pathetic lives in their pathetic home states, I suggest go to Missouri or Baltimore, or Los Angeles or somewhere else that puts up with that kind of crap because here in SC we come together in tragedy rather than fall apart!
Well, I agree to a point, but are you saying the same about the people coming down from North Carolina for the Big KKK Rally?
The OP can have whatever opinion he wants to have on the Charleston massacre, the response, or the flag. No one is arguing that. However, suggesting that people outside the state with opinions on the flag should shut up because they aren't from around here is ridiculous. This is national news about a topic of national interest.
I completely agree (although I don't think you meant to quote me ).
He still gets to hold his opinion, no matter how strongly you don't agree. The national press is guilty of trying to inflame public sentiment, so that they can get juicy stories that justify their negatively biased views of this state. This event has already spawned more than enough straw men, and it's time to let the people of our state begin to heal these wounds, as is our custom. I bear no guilt or shame for the actions of a madman, nor should the state of SC. I do, however, hold the congregation and victim families dear to my heart. Their pain is indeed ours to share, as their brethren.
He still gets to hold his opinion, no matter how strongly you don't agree. The national press is guilty of trying to inflame public sentiment, so that they can get juicy stories that justify their negatively biased views of this state. This event has already spawned more than enough straw men, and it's time to let the people of our state begin to heal these wounds, as is our custom. I bear no guilt or shame for the actions of a madman, nor should the state of SC. I do, however, hold the congregation and victim families dear to my heart. Their pain is indeed ours to share, as their brethren.
Telling someone to shut up because you don't want to hear them is an opinion only in the most hypertechnical sense of the word.
I'm not sure where this idea that the national media is stirring things up is coming from. If anything, South Carolina and South Carolinians have come across as gracious, loving, and decent people in the national media. Of course, there are always agitators on all sides, but it's a stretch to say they represent the larger narrative.
The pain and recovery from something like this is larger than just us as South Carolinians. This tragedy affected the entire country.
Last I checked, prior approval isn't required to express an opinion. Looks like we'll just have to agree to disagree...eh?
Again, I repeat (not that it matters): his so-called opinion is irrelevant. It's about being a grown up and not stomping your feet and telling other people to shut up because they make you mad.
We have the media to blame for all of this BS. Everything was fine before this young punk did something stupid causing the media to dive in screaming and throwing gasoline on the flames. They are absolutely to blame for attracting all of the idiots out of the woodwork who are now giving the media more ratings. A lot of these people committing criminal acts are probably coming in from outside the state, like moths to the flame. Gogo ratings...
The punk who started all of this even made a statement that he was upset because SC has no Klan or people willing to commit these crimes - he was so disappointed in the state. His whole point was that this type of thing does not happen in SC. The irony, the media has now created...
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