Arch im not in total disagreement with many of the things uve posted. but the Nazi flag is simply associated with hate and genocide by most ppl today. which imo is really unfair. most of the modern world today watches videos on the history channel, discovery, utube etc.... and all they see is the hate that was carried out by the top officials in the German government at the time.
but, wat many don't realize is millions of ppl from that country simply had a deep and undeniable amount of PRIDE to be a german citizen and THAT is wat the NAZI flag meant to them.
people like General Rommel who even to this day is considered one the best strategic generals in the history of warfare. the man had pride and had absolutely NOTHING to do with concentration camps or cruelty to jews. he simply fought for his country and had a loving family.
there were millions of ppl like him in one way or another who had a LOVE for their country and hung the Nazi flag in their house with pride or wore the swastika on their sleeve with great pride to be a German soldier or citizen and it had NOTHING to do with wat we associate the Nazi flag with today.
its no different then millions of southerners... they too have a lot of PRIDE and associate that flag with their family history and battles that have been fought along the way. not everyone was a slave owner. and not everyone treated slaves like animals and not everyone agreed with slavery at all! so wen some racist wants to associate a flag with hate then thats his choice. he has first amendment rights to associate anything he wants with his hate.
you take one incident of hate and now want to banish a symbol of southern culture thats been around longer then any of us have? this is a very slippery slope and bordering on censorship. ya know, like they do in China, Russia, Cuba etc.... not good.
the KKK has associated that flag with their hate since the beginning. decades ago! so why NOW all of a sudden does the flag NOW be takn down? because some little turd wanted to mock the Newtown incident and had a fb pic holding a confederate flag. so fukn wat! wat if he was holding the US flag? do we now take that down too?
wat if he was holding an Irish flag and associating it with the IRA? shud we now take down Irish flags from around the country because some little turd wanted to engage in hate by blowing up a church and prior taking a picture of himself holding the Irish flag while representing the IRA. you see where that goes......? that is NOT who we are in this country.
and now the media has has painted such an ugly picture of the confederate flag that its become so sensational that people just now associate it with hate. WHAT!!!!!!!!!! ru fukn kidding me? I mean cmon taking down the Dukes of Hazard!!!!!!!!
SMFH thats one of the most wholesome family oriented shows in the history of television. see how turning a symbol into a universal sign of hate has now done to a piece of our history with the Dukes of Hazard? see where things go when u acknowledge ones hate by now removing the flag?
It is pretty clear what the flag means and that it was raised over the SC capitol to signify racial domination and superiority. That is also why the KKK uses it. I don't have a problem with an individual flying a Nazi flag if that's the message they want to send out. But a government entity represents everyone and should not be engaged in flying a flag that represents white jihad and terror as well as treason to the USA. I do disagree with removing all memorials and statues, as this is more a documentation of history than flying the colors of traitors.
As far as companies dropping the flag, they have a right to do what they feel will make their customers happy. Freedom of speech protects you from the government, not other people. Make an arse of yourself and you pay the toll.
The video of the Dylann bail rearing was amazing. For these people to face the kid who took so much from them and offer forgiveness was stunning. Watching the interviews of the family members it struck me that many of them looked like the people who police were shooting down in the streets. Yet when given the opportunity to poor gas on the racial fires burning hot in this country they chose instead to extinguish them. And with that move they showed their humanity and their moral superiority to white supremacy terrorists. This church has a long history of fighting for civil rights and they showed it. Following that hearing things did change. People stepped back from the us vs. them mentality, at least for awhile.
