Michigan state senator wore Confederate flag face mask to session over Whitmer's emergency orders

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Source: Detroit Metro Times

On Friday, Zorn wore a Confederate flag face mask on the Senate floor during a session addressing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's emergency powers and the coronavirus pandemic crisis.

When asked about it by WLNS, Zorn said it wasn't a Confederate flag, but even if it was, the Confederate flag is still part of our national history.

"Even if it was a Confederate flag, you know, we should be talking about teaching our national history in schools and that’s part of our national history and it’s something we can’t just throw away because it is part of our history. And if we want to make sure that the atrocities that happened during that time doesn’t happen again, we should be teaching it. Our kids should know what that flag stands for."



Read more: https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2020/04/25/michigan-state-senator-wore-confederate-flag-face-mask-to-session-over-whitmers-emergency-orders

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WTF is wrong with people like this???

[Skittles]

1. we KNOW what that flag stands for, Zorn

that's why YOU SUCK, you racist piece of SHIT

[ashredux]

2. So is a German Swastika part of our history...but we don't wear them!

He knows damn well what he was saying

[sfstaxprep]

19. Exactly!

You know what happens if you wear a Swastika mask in Germany? They don't look upon it the same way you apparently view the confederate flag, you Fucking Asshole!

[jmowreader]

32. I'll tell you exactly what happens if you wear a swastika mask in Germany

They throw your Nazi ass in jail where it belongs. In Germany, freedom of speech does not extend to Nazi shit.

[whathehell]

3. Someone should have given him a replacement..

(Maybe the American flag) and told him that flag wasn't welcome in government.meetings.

[Newest Reality]

4. It...

It takes on a more sinister and appropriate aura when it is worn as a mask.

If losing a civil war is something you are proud of, then something might be wrong with you. However, we know the code. We know what you are really proud of, and it sure isn't democracy and freedom for all. Traitors.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. you cant serve two masters you idiot.

[Srkdqltr]

6. Good grief. Could he be more embarrassing.

Unfortunately he isn't in the minority in this area.

[lonely bird]

7. Oh, goodie

Another Republican piece of shit.

[underpants]

8. "Rebel"

When we first moved to Virginia when I was about 7 - from hippy town Ohio - I saw rebel flags mostly among young guys. I just saw it as rebellious youth much like the hippies I had seen before.

Now I know better. I know what it’s been taken on (and was back then) and so should this asshole.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. He must have taken a sharpie to a map

and put Michigan below the Mason-Dixon line.

[Steelrolled]

10. Is Michigan changing?

I know there were property tax revolts years ago, and they voted in Trump (by a very small margin) but I wouldn't have expected this.

[Thekaspervote]

11. MI is like my state..IL. You have the sensible blue north and the crazy whacko red neck south

[KS Toronado]

12. WTF?

A Yankee wearing a confederate flag in Michigan? 155 years ago they would have put him in front of a firing squad for being a spy.

[dhill926]

13. an almost incomprehensible level of assfuckery...

jesus...

[yaesu]

14. the fascists play their racist games while over 3200 have died in the state and its all for show

as their asswipe legislation will get vetoed at the end.

[Marcuse]

15. Another Johnny Reb defending the enslavement of people and institutional racism.

1861:
In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently prove.

[link:https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states

[Mendocino]

16. The Confederate Swatiska

or is it The Nazi Stars and Bars? The "sane "world wonders...

He says it "looks like a Confederate symbol", semantics aside it is. He can shove it up his ass!

[keithbvadu2]

22. Confederate flag supporters proudly associate with nazi flags

Confederate flag supporters proudly associate with nazi flags

[Mendocino]

29. The only difference

is in graphic design. Still smells the same.

[TeamPooka]

17. Zorn is a racist scumbag. Fuck that guy.

[KatyMan]

18. "Our kids should know what that flag stands for."

Why don't you tell us what it stands for, Mr Zorn?

[rickyhall]

20. I was raised in the South by racists, but I know the confederate flag represents treason.

What I was taught as The War of Northern Aggression was a war defending the enslavement of human beings.

What's really weird is a Michigan Yankee defending it!

[keithbvadu2]

21. "Our kids should know what that flag stands for."

"Our kids should know what that flag stands for."

Confederate Flag ad from the time of LBJ:

"The Confederate Flag is no longer a sectional emblem. It is now the symbol of the White
race and White supremacy. Fly it on your car and house."

[iluvtennis]

23. Wow, SMDH.

[weissmam]

24. lets see confederate flag

Traitors
Looser
Big Looser
Slave Holders
any more

I am still big on the traitor aspect of it

[Cryptoad]

25. Long known fact that

Most of the GOP are proud to be able to support and fight for slavery of other human beings! Part of the GOP Creed. Every Republican I have ever known is/was a Hate Monger and a Bigot.

[SeattleVet]

26. Well, they *are* supporters of the "Party of Lincoln"...

and we all know how important that flag was to him!

[Harker]

27. Zorn is a German word for 'anger' or 'wrath.' n/t

[greenjar_01]

28. Nearly 15,000 Michiganders died fighting the slaver armies during their rebellion

Fuck this guy sideways.

[raging moderate]

30. The modern Republican party is a parody of the original Party of Lincoln.

It is very much like a caterpillar in which a wasp has laid its eggs. As they have matured, the larvae have eaten away at the original party from the inside, until it is only a dead shell of the original Party of Lincoln.

[raging moderate]

31. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" might answer him.

Whenever one of these "Copperheads" shows up in their pro-racist regalia, maybe the rest of us should all rise and sing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." It is mostly very loud, and has many very educational verses.