• Cave
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    792 years ago

    Wait until you see the Confederate flags in PA. Ya know, where the battle of Gettysburg happened. Very much not a southern state. It’s wild seeing this shit in my neighborhood.

    • JJROKCZ
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      822 years ago

      Confederate flags are in canada and California, it’s just a flag for racists to roleplay with, the confederacy won’t rise again anywhere.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      252 years ago

      So much not a southern state that its bottom border is literally the Mason-Dixon line. Some people are, indeed, whack.

      I have seen Confederate battle flags flying on trucks and houses in and around Gettysburg, no less. I get the impression that people are not doing this for historical reenactment purposes…

    • @lingh0e@sh.itjust.works
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      92 years ago

      Seriously. I live in the Cleveland area of Ohio. We are geographically closer to Canada than the Mason Dixon. There’s still an abundance of hoople heads flying confederate flags.

    • Throwaway
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      52 years ago

      It means something else to those who fly them, generally speaking. Think Dukes of Hazzard more than Slavery.

      Not saying its right, but thats how they see it.

      • @krashmo@lemmy.world
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        112 years ago

        I don’t think that’s anywhere close to universally true but even if it is that’s only one more example of why we should never listen to those kinds of people. That opinion is dumb, inaccurate, shallow, and more than a little white-washed.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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          52 years ago

          This is similar to the line my neighbor tried to pull. He had one of those half-and-half flags that was the US flag on one side and Confederate battle flag on the other. Somebody came by in the dead of night and stole it. It became a big hoopla on the block. He tried to tell me, “It’s got nothing to do with racism. It’s just a rebel flag because we’re just rebels in general and ain’t nobody tell us what to do.”

          So have an anarchy flag or fly the Jolly Roger or something instead. For fuck’s sake. I don’t know if he actually believes that line of shit, or if it’s just a cover. (He also has a Trump election sign, one of those corrugated plastic ones, stuck in his screen door. So I suspect the latter.)

        • @TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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          12 years ago

          No, it’s actually true that a lot of people don’t really think it through. I personally talked a friend out of flying it by appealing to how it might make others feel. It honestly hadn’t really occurred to him. Now granted, said friend is semi-literate at best, but he is a genuinely kind and decent human being who just didn’t know anything else.

    • wowbagger
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      22 years ago

      Even worse are the ones I see flying in West Virginia – you know, the state that only exists because its inhabitants didn’t want to secede along with the rest of Virginia.