“It’s just the #ConfederateFlag,” they say, “and if you don’t support purging it from history, you’re racist!” But it isn’t just about the flag soldiers flew a century and a half ago.
It is right and proper for the government to not fly the Confederate battle flag, nor to display it outside a museum. If a company wants to refuse to sell it, or allow others to use their service to sell it, on moral grounds (while supporting NAZIs), that is their legal right (Gay Pride flags, OTOH…). But there is a boarder societal effect of banning anything that the baying mobs of Political Correctness demand.
Why not tear down all memorials for the losing side in a war that ended a century and a half ago? Heck, why not remove memorials for the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Why not the Flag of the United States of America itself? That is not a hypothetical, but something that pointy headed ivory tower idjits are already demanding.
This is another Kobayashi Maru scenario: You either loose by defending something that is connected to racism and slavery, or you concede and allow the Left to go on to another target. Overtime they will make more and more things declared racist. The end game?
To have all of American history tinged with racism (and sexism, homophobia, &c.). If you make all of American history “racist” then people will accept anything as an alternative if it is offered. That is how you “fundamentally transform” America into a Progressive utopia.
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