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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo...does the lowering of the Dixie Swastika mean...
...that the Goppers will stop making that segregationist-ass-kissing appearances at Bob Jones University?...
Warpy
(111,383 posts)from climbing up on the cross, showing everybody how pious they all are.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)to a large percent of the population. It probably won't change much that the flag is coming down. But, it's one less thing to fight about and it's a victory that people who have been oppressed don't have to see that flying over the institution that still oppresses them. So, there is still a lot of work to do. But, a symbolic victory is still a victory.
merrily
(45,251 posts)One is paid for entirely by taxpayers; the other is not. One is not constitutionally protected speech and could be constitutionally prohibited government speech; the other may be protected by the First Amendment.
No one has time for a government imprimatur on insurrection to extend slavery.