Why in the world would anyone associate that confederate rag with racism?
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but look at any cultural or historical symbol. For example, this:
To those embracing of the tech culture, that means rofl, but it could be me laughing some folly or foolishness, or it could be me appreciating a clever or humorous comment. To the Luddite-type, it may represent a sad Koolaid-ingesting electronic culture junky who is forever trying to roll with the latest teen fad. To me, a medical person, that is the universal symbol of epilepsy.
To a bright and creative southern kid following the Dead around the summer before starting an Ivy League education, the confederate flag meant "don't tread on me", now a pejorative clarion call of the libertarian, but not always. This kid was one of the most accepting, fair minded, intelligent, and welcoming people I have ever met, taught me much, including how to do this:
... Prior to World War I, there were very few dark-skinned people of African descent in Germany. But, during World War I, the French brought in Black African soldiers during the Allied occupation. Most of the Germans, who were very race conscious, despised the dark-skinned "invasion". Some of these Black soldiers married White German women that bore children referred to as "Rhineland Bastards" or the "Black Disgrace". On May 13, 1931, the International Olympic Committee, headed by Count Henri Baillet-Latour of Belgium, awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics to Berlin. The choice signaled Germany's return to the world community after defeat in World War I. In the months and years that followed, Germany proceeded to oppress and murder Blacks and other non-Aryans. On July 14th 1933, they enacted a new law providing a basis for forced sterilization of handicapped persons, Gypsies, and Blacks ...
... Deutsche Welle spoke to leading German historian Prof. Reiner Pommerin to find out what happened to these children. "I published a book in the 70s, which told the reader about the sterilization of mixed blood children. These were children who had been fathered by occupation forces - mostly French occupation forces," he said. His book, "Sterilisierung der Rheinlandbastarde. Das Schicksal einer farbigen deutschen Minderheit 1918 - 1937" ("Sterilization of the Rhineland Bastards: the fate of a colored German minority 1918 - 1937"
publicized the sterilization of the Black minority in Nazi Germany ... According to Campt, the major difference between the experience of blacks and that of other groups in the Third Reich is the lack of a systematic Nazi extermination plan. Moreover, because of the small number of blacks living in Germany, few people are ready to recognize that there was even a population whose experience can be discussed ...
The German occupation of Poland was exceptionally brutal. The Nazis considered Poles to be racially inferior. Following the military defeat of Poland by Germany in September 1939, the Germans launched a campaign of terror. German police units shot thousands of Polish civilians and required all Polish males to perform forced labor ... Between 1939 and 1945, at least 1.5 million Polish citizens were deported to German territory for forced labor ...
... Other targets of Nazi racism included the Slavic populations of Eastern Europe (especially Russians and Poles) ...
This is the actual Confederate flag:
The one widely considered the Confederate flag is actually the Battle Flag of the Army of Tennessee:
And you betyerass it's a symbol of white supremacy and racial hatred. The fact that it's cultural doesn't change that; really, it makes it way, way worse.
... flying their swastika flags next to our Stars and Stripes.
Worthless little runts, all of 'em. 
. . .or a garbage can.
Just sayin'.
enslaved them, and sends its police out to murder them while they are unarmed children, today leaving tens of millions unemployed so others can pretend to greater wealth. All this in a nation that was established by murdering between 50 and 80 million native people and stealing their lands and wealth so that everyone today can profit from it?
Oh, say it ain't so. All those fingers pointing at the other flags are gonna start to shake now.
You don't think that's why they structure your education so you can't possibly think that, do you?
These are some really ugly, and revealing pics.
