Confederate
flag fetishits repeatedly bellow that support for their beloved hate
symbol is entirely about their “heritage” and “history,” but a poll
analysis conducted by the Washington Post reveals their claims to be as valid as the concept of “legitimate rape.”
Since
white supremacist terrorist Dylann Roof gunned down nine people in an
historic black South Carolina church with the goal of igniting a new
civil war, a debate has raged over the removal of the Confederate flag
from the Statehouse. Even Republican Governor Nikki Haley, who once
supported the flag’s presence, called for its removal as the public outcry against the flag raged.
“It’s
a symbol of family and my ancestors who defended the state from
invasion. It was about standing up to a central government,” said Chris
Sullivan, a member of the Sons of the Confederacy in defense of the
flag. “The things that our ancestors fought for were not novel and they
really are the same issues we have today.”
Yes,
the flag is a symbol of those who “defended” against an “invasion”
after Southern states collectively committed treason. The flag was
created by people who rose up to kill their countrymen over their belief
that black people are inferior — just ask Confederate “Vice President” Alexander Stephens:
“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science.”
Unsurprisingly, the Washington Post found that not only is support of the flag rooted in racism, but that flag fetishists don’t quite understand history:
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