This is very confusing--- you must have just felt like arguing last night! What I'm reading is basically an agreement with you by X, who doesn't see that any flag is especially benign.
Do you not think that if you had flown the hammer and sickle in the 60s you would have raised some eyebrows? I don;t know-- I'm asking.
Other than that, since most Americans are incredibly insular and ill-educated, a lot of people wouldn't have a clue what they were looking at, or WHY it should upset them.
The Confederate flag has taken on negative connotations for many, regardless of the original symbolism. (I'm a Virginian, don't argue with me about whether it's good or bad- I love the South and you know it) Because the issues are still very sensitive, and because they are terribly PC besides, it's NOW viewed as a symbol for racism by many. ANd I think- when I see it flying in the rear window of a pick-up- that often the person flying it is using it as such. I doubt he could give a meaningful speech on the historical anything, or tell us as nihil did, about the ancestors he had in the war.
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