• @carl_dungeon
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    149 months ago

    They forgot to add the last flag of the confederacy, which was just all white.

  • Alto
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    9 months ago

    People really dont want to acknowledge that their great great grandpa was an awful and racist son of a bitch

    • @Yawweee877h444
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      109 months ago

      The people who use these flags are usually blatantly racist, know their granpa was also racist, and are generally proud of it all.

  • @[email protected]
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    69 months ago

    so on a scale of “meme or fact”, how factual is this image?

    I don’t doubt the take on people who fly it now, I mean as far as fact-checking each description per flag.

    • PugJesusOP
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      89 months ago

      It’s all correct, except maybe for the claim about it first becoming popular with Confederate veterans in 1904. Haven’t heard that one before.

      “As a people, we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause.”

  • Xariphon
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    49 months ago

    You’re also not “honoring your heritage” because the Confederacy was a three-year blip, not an era. Or a culture. Except insofar as being a collective of racist assholes is a culture.