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@ThePilotDude @Strikefighter04 this has nothing to do with your argument and I'm like 4 years late but:

Using the swastika, I can't just say "oh that means german greatness" and expect that that will actually change reality

Hitler was a nut job and just thought his flag would look "cool", so the symbols like the swastika have no meaning for anything on the Nazi flag, other than Nazism.

In fact, the swastika does have a deep meaning. For thousands of years, East/South Asian religions such as Buddhism have used the swastika as a symbol of peace (and it's still widely used today). If I remember correctly, Hitler used the swastika for his flag as it was meant to symbolise bringing "peace" to Germany and later Europe (by uniting the entire continent).

So yes, people will get offended if you say that the swastika is purely to show Nazi pride.

Kinda crazy that the world is coming to this. @DatRoadTrainGuy19

@Strikefighter04 man that drama in the comment is over a couple years old, sheesh were those people really are snowflakes isnt it? Makes me want to wonder how many more one sided snowflake idiots there is on the internet and irl.

Yes you should! @realSavageMan

I should build one with this paint on a latest Challenger model haha

@ThePilotDude ok maybe i shouldnt have started this controversial thing with the confeds and the north bc i dont want to be hated :P

@ThePilotDude white 'supremacists' actually didnt bring the slaves tho.

that flag is actually a conservative flag on the car

@ThePilotDude this is the confed flag: https://postimg.cc/k6SDXnCh

@ThePilotDude well i have been watching some prageru

@ThePilotDude just some things to keep in mind dude, first of all the north also had slaves, not only the confeds. Second of all, that's actually not the confederate flag. Thirdly, Abraham Lincoln was a republican. I just don't want to be hated. I just live in Texas and I wanted to make a point!

It is indeed @KnightOfRen

That was an entertaining read lol

Lol yeah people get triggered so fast its not even funny. @SanitaterAirlines

I’m a bit late, but it was pretty obvious people would get triggered about the flag. I’m just sitting here with some popcorn watching the thing. Looked back on when this whole thing started, and the forecast said some snowflakes would be touching down. :)

Alright cool, thanks man! @ThePilotDude

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Lol @FlagsWorldwide

@Strikefighter04 Yeah, soon you'd have to hit the "Load More Comments" button just to scroll past one comment.

XD I'm glad that I just didn't continue this @FlagsWorldwide

Those are the longest comments I've EVER seen.

It's alright, as there isn't really something to, let's say, boast about with growing up in the south. My family and friends definition of southern pride is we're proud to be from there, and we love our family history and such. There's nothing inherently "better" about it than lets say the north, we just value it. To clarify, our opinion and understanding of "Southern Pride" or "Southern Heritage" has nothing to do with the Civil War or the CSA, we are just proud of our family history and way of life. To anyone else it does sound weird and confusing, but its just how we feel.
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And to quote me earlier, "just because someone uses something for something doesn't mean that is what it means and what defines it". That statement meant that the original meaning of something cannot be changed or warped to fit the likes of someone or some group. The original meaning will stay forever, but they can develop additional or alternate meanings over time. We still understand the original meaning of the CBF, and that it was used by the Confederates in the Civil War, and that it is used as a symbol of the KKK and white-supremacists. But we have a new, additional, alternate meaning for it, a good, wholesome meaning, that has nothing to do with its evil past (or current bad usage). We don't forget its history or it's original meaning. But we also use the flag as its alternate representation, as I described earlier about our southern heritage and pride. @ThePilotDude

Well, I was wrong on the point of more people flying it. I thought more would, but oh well. That doesn't change my family's views though. You said "The idea that the CBF has been used as a symbol of "Southern heritage" for generations is pure propaganda." What are you saying? Southern Heritage is not only about the CSA, as you seem to think according your statements. This is my family history I'm talking about. We are loving, just, and law-abiding people. We are not racist or supportive of the CSA cause in the least bit. Just because we fly the CBF as one of our symbols (and I'm sure many others) of southern life doesn't automatically mean we support the Confederacy. We are not that way at all. But the rebel flag is special to us, it means something other than racism to us. We love everyone, just as Jesus Christ teaches. The flag is a emblem of living and our family history of the south, my grandma and my step grandma especially, they grew up in Louisiana. The are the nicest people you'll ever meet, and the flag means nothing more to them than their heritage in the south.
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You also said,"What a group of people think about something doesn't actually create an alternate meaning for that thing." Actually yes it does, it happens many times in history, for better or worse. In the case of our treatment of the CBF, its a better case. We are not harming anyone by showing our support for our southern family history. A worse case would be the Star of David in the Holocaust. To the Jews, it was their religious symbol. To the Nazis, it was a sign of filth and evil, and needed to destroyed. It had two meanings. Both are historically accurate. Both sides of the Confederate flag are accurate. Things can have an alternate meaning.

Now see, then why are we discussing this so harshly? I'm also a conservative republican. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (formerly known as Mormons). I love America and the rights and freedoms that we have here, and by the way I would never fly the rebel flag over the Stars and Stripes, I love the American flag. Brave men and women have died for that flag. That is the flag of the United States, the country I'm proud to live in and be a part of.
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My stance on the CBF is not that of worship or praise to it's past, or what it means in terms of its meaning of slavery and racism. Southern people have used the rebel flag for generations as a symbol of the southern way of life. The racist meaning has no effect on them. They understand and value the past as a learning experience (again, not ignoring the past, because that is bad), and move on. We all know slavery, racism, white-supremacy, and all that jazz is bad. The flag stands for that according to history. But it has an alternate meaning to us. We are not against the American flag, or also "American Pride", because we are America-loving people. More southerners fly the US flag more the CBF. I would never fly the rebel flag over Old Glory. We love the United States. But to some the CBF is a symbol of southern living, not racism. Yes, it does sound hypocritical from an outsiders point of view, as you said, "You claim to love your country yet fly the flag of the rebel nation that stabbed that country in the back? How does that make sense?". We don't give a crap about the CSA anymore. Not even brought up. Same with racism. We all know its bad and wrong. Yes, from a historical standpoint the flag is racist. Why would I deny blatant facts? Nor am I changing them. But the CBF has a new meaning to us. We remember its old meaning and what wrong things it represented. But that's not what it means to us now. Southern pride is a special pride, that literally has nothing to do with the CSA. Part of my family is also from Arizona, they are proud to be from Arizona. Why can't we be proud of our southern family heritage, while also being proud to be Americans?