superchuck500
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In the past week, we have seen Nascar move to ban the display of the Confederate flag at sanctioned-races, an effort to rename military bases named after Confederate leaders, and new removals of Confederate monuments.
Unlike the reaction to kneeling during the anthem - which implicated widely-held views about the U.S. flag, patriotism, and the national anthem, it seems that this effort is more focused in that the Confederate flag has no official meaning in the present . . . and has become, like it or not, fully co-opted by genuine racists. Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone that supports the flag is a genuine racist, but that soil becomes harder and harder to stand on with each day.
Have we reached the point where the celebration of Confederate relics can be considered effective racism - or is there still a viable argument that it somehow can be distinguished? Of course, choosing to display that flag remains a right under the First Amendment . . . but private organizations, companies, and ndividuals, of course, have their prerogative to reject and ban it should they choose that they wish not to be associated with it in any way.
Unlike the reaction to kneeling during the anthem - which implicated widely-held views about the U.S. flag, patriotism, and the national anthem, it seems that this effort is more focused in that the Confederate flag has no official meaning in the present . . . and has become, like it or not, fully co-opted by genuine racists. Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone that supports the flag is a genuine racist, but that soil becomes harder and harder to stand on with each day.
Have we reached the point where the celebration of Confederate relics can be considered effective racism - or is there still a viable argument that it somehow can be distinguished? Of course, choosing to display that flag remains a right under the First Amendment . . . but private organizations, companies, and ndividuals, of course, have their prerogative to reject and ban it should they choose that they wish not to be associated with it in any way.
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