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Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

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Johnson called on school officials to expel anybody responsible for the incident and said "these same individuals came to school earlier this year brandishing Confederate flags on their vehicles."

Amazing how that stupid flag keeps boiling to the surface and yet morons over and over again defend it's existence.
 
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Amazing how that stupid flag keeps boiling to the surface and yet morons over and over again defend it's existence.
How do you stuff it back into Pandora's box? You can't make existence of the flag illegal, or ban its display on public grounds by private citizens, that would run up against the First Amendment.

The best we can do is teach our children a way to walk in this world that would lead them to seeing the foolishness of the Battle Flag, of what it represents. We need to work on the hearts and minds. Symbols are just simple means of expression.
 
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How do you stuff it back into Pandora's box? You can't make existence of the flag illegal, or ban its display on public grounds by private citizens, that would run up against the First Amendment.

The best we can do is teach our children a way to walk in this world that would lead them to seeing the foolishness of the Battle Flag, of what it represents. We need to work on the hearts and minds. Symbols are just simple means of expression.

You certainly can ban the display of that flag on school property.
 
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You certainly can ban the display of that flag on school property.

What does that accomplish other than making certain people think that a tissue-thin bandage has been placed over the gushing bleeder?
 
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Yeah banning it at school isnt going to do anything...it is like putting a piece of gum in the whole of the Hoover Dam. That said the school should ban it just because they can.

What if we compromise...they can have the original Stars and Bars of the Confederacy since that isnt as widely viewed as racist and hate filled and they have to get rid of Beauregard's Flag which is what most people equate with the KKK and Southern Racism.

Interesting note: My girlfriend is related to PGT Beauregard. Her uncle is a Beauregard Madison (yes that Madison) and another relative is a decedent of Alexander Hamilton. Her family couldnt be more American...unlike mine that is just Eastern European Mutt :D You should have seen the look on the Old Timers face at the Jefferson Davis House in Biloxi when we told him...he got all excited to hear about one branch and his heart sank as he learned more. I made sure she told him since he was flat out ignoring her as he told me all about the War of Northern Aggression and how my family probably fought in it...
 
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What does that accomplish other than making certain people think that a tissue-thin bandage has been placed over the gushing bleeder?

I'll tell you what it accomplishes. Letting that **** on school grounds fosters a tolerance of hatred and hate speech. If those kids had been reprimanded like they should have been maybe they wouldn't have brought a noose to the school. As it is, by reading the article, it sounds like more than one person was involved but only one person is getting expelled. Probably some circling of the wagons to makes sure some sports team doesn't lose to many players.

I can't have that stupid flag in my office at work. Why should someone be able to bring it to school? There's a difference between free speech and creating a hostile work/school environment.
 
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Having just been in Mississippi I can tell you there is zero way anything like that would happen. The flag is everywhere...
 
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Having just been in Mississippi I can tell you there is zero way anything like that would happen. The flag is everywhere...

Good. As long as they self-identify we can steer clear of them.
 
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Proving again that the wrong army won the Civil War.

Maybe...but I also didnt see many Black People up in arms about it either. To them that is who they are...Mississippi.

The flag in and of itself is benign...it is the nimrods who use it as a symbol that are the problem.
 
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Amazing how that stupid flag keeps boiling to the surface and yet morons over and over again defend it's existence.

What's really amazing is how your ilk is attempting to exterminate it from history. Talk about censorship at its finest. I'm guessing the vindictive angle didn't quite work out?
 
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Good. As long as they self-identify we can steer clear of them.

I am not talking about just on rednecks trucks...it is on office buildings and in government buildings, libraries and signs. Hell the State Flag of Mississippi has the Confederate Flag within it.

Look we are liberals, my guess is you, Scooby and myself have no issue with the idea of destroying a flag as a symbol of protest. (since it is after all just a flag) We cant then turn around and talk about how a flag is inherently evil either because, again, it is just a flag.
 
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Look we are liberals, my guess is you, Scooby and myself have no issue with the idea of destroying a flag as a symbol of protest. (since it is after all just a flag) We cant then turn around and talk about how a flag is inherently evil either because, again, it is just a flag.

I thought double standards were the way of all authoritarian politicians... ;)
 
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What's really amazing is how your ilk is attempting to exterminate it from history. Talk about censorship at its finest. I'm guessing the vindictive angle didn't quite work out?

And it is you and your Rightie ilk that are trying to whitewash slavery and racism out of the History Books...which do you think is more of an issue Frauddy?
 
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And it is you and your Rightie ilk that are trying to whitewash slavery and racism out of the History Books...which do you think is more of an issue Frauddy?

And yet you want to keep racism relevant? Isn't that the complete opposite goal of civil rights movements? Or is it really just vindictive bullying, just like the feminist movement?
 
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And yet you want to keep racism relevant? Isn't that the complete opposite goal of civil rights movements? Or is it really just vindictive bullying, just like the feminist movement?

You want to try explaining whatever the hell you are talking about here because it made even less sense than your usual BS :p
 
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And yet you want to keep racism relevant? Isn't that the complete opposite goal of civil rights movements? Or is it really just vindictive bullying, just like the feminist movement?

Wow. Just wow. And I actually wondered why Trump. Not anymore.
 
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