People who support the confederate flag or make it their identity are sad. The Confederacy lasted 4 years. That’s it. They lost, they didn’t add anything of value to our society. It’s so weird that anyone would look to those 4 years and say “yeah, that’s where my allegiance is”. 95% of them probably don’t even know anything about the confederacy outside of slavery.
You’re right that’s exactly what it means. However, there’s a ton of spin going on with BS like the lost cause that try to spin the founding of the Confederacy as something morally just and even heroic. They focus on things like states rights, chivalry, rebellion (the rebel flag), etc. Of course those obviously come at the expense of truly local rights and the rights of women. If you read any of the speeches of the time or the actual articles of succession it will become very obvious that it was about slavery.
It doesn’t help that pop culture leaned into presenting Confederate symbolism as “they’re trying to morally rebel against the corrupt government” for a bit. That’s a big reason why the Dukes of Hazard car, the General Lee, had a Confederate flag on the roof.
Imagine having the Declaration of Independence at hand and instead going “naw, lets use the confederate flag to show how much I like losing rebellions by repping the side that wants to keep human trafficking legal.”
People who support the confederate flag or make it their identity are sad. The Confederacy lasted 4 years. That’s it. They lost, they didn’t add anything of value to our society. It’s so weird that anyone would look to those 4 years and say “yeah, that’s where my allegiance is”. 95% of them probably don’t even know anything about the confederacy outside of slavery.
It’s not weird. They and everybody with two connected neurons know the confederate flag really means “I hate black people”.
You’re right that’s exactly what it means. However, there’s a ton of spin going on with BS like the lost cause that try to spin the founding of the Confederacy as something morally just and even heroic. They focus on things like states rights, chivalry, rebellion (the rebel flag), etc. Of course those obviously come at the expense of truly local rights and the rights of women. If you read any of the speeches of the time or the actual articles of succession it will become very obvious that it was about slavery.
It doesn’t help that pop culture leaned into presenting Confederate symbolism as “they’re trying to morally rebel against the corrupt government” for a bit. That’s a big reason why the Dukes of Hazard car, the General Lee, had a Confederate flag on the roof.
Imagine having the Declaration of Independence at hand and instead going “naw, lets use the confederate flag to show how much I like losing rebellions by repping the side that wants to keep human trafficking legal.”