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Dear white people: is it possible for a flag to symbolize different things?

That is, your symbol of courage, valor, and military service...
metal vivacious mother
  09/18/16
Sure as long as you admit the confederate flag can symbolize...
boyish orchestra pit
  09/18/16
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apoplectic brindle heaven
  09/18/16
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exhilarant indigo persian
  09/18/16
You mean like treason?
metal vivacious mother
  09/18/16
not helping your point here breh
Floppy private investor athletic conference
  09/18/16
I'm all for Southerners who take pride in their traditions a...
metal vivacious mother
  09/18/16
Stop erasing their experiences.
Concupiscible offensive hunting ground box office
  09/18/16
The experience being open rebellion?
metal vivacious mother
  09/18/16
UNTHKEW
histrionic quadroon indirect expression
  09/18/16
still not helping your point breh
Floppy private investor athletic conference
  09/18/16
Not following you. The symbol can mean whatever you'd li...
metal vivacious mother
  09/18/16
Some things can't be amended friend. It's literally the only...
frisky area
  09/18/16
possibility one is that a flag means multiple things in that...
Floppy private investor athletic conference
  09/18/16
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Turquoise heady brethren
  09/18/16
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Thriller Learning Disabled Scourge Upon The Earth
  09/18/16
ljl
Glittery trust fund
  09/18/16
That uprising was entirely caused by the North. Don't re...
Vibrant Clear Regret
  09/18/16
No one can force you to betray your country
Thriller Learning Disabled Scourge Upon The Earth
  09/18/16
Their "country" was determined to make their priva...
Vibrant Clear Regret
  09/18/16
Only the very wealthy owned slaves, not exactly a "mora...
Thriller Learning Disabled Scourge Upon The Earth
  09/18/16
It doesn't matter how many people owned slaves in the contex...
Vibrant Clear Regret
  09/18/16
"not being loyal to a country they didn't recognize.&qu...
Thriller Learning Disabled Scourge Upon The Earth
  09/18/16
(George III)
Vibrant Clear Regret
  09/18/16
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Adventurous gaming laptop set
  09/18/16
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Rough-skinned bipolar site elastic band
  09/18/16
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Lascivious office
  09/18/16
PWN
galvanic school cafeteria roast beef
  09/18/16
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walnut insanely creepy marketing idea resort
  09/18/16
ONE | SHOT | KILL
Stirring Stag Film Fanboi
  09/18/16
An OP is det
180 magenta corn cake
  09/18/16
OP was gud keed. Did't du nuffin.
snowy cerebral lay
  09/18/16
OP done here
Rebellious awkward toaster parlor
  09/18/16
Did OP not think this through for 5 seconds
Thriller Learning Disabled Scourge Upon The Earth
  09/18/16
Put this in the category of first reply killshots
Khaki godawful nursing home coldplay fan
  09/18/16
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histrionic quadroon indirect expression
  09/18/16
FATAL
Ungodly exciting stage juggernaut
  09/18/16
*OP crumples defenselessly to the most obvious counterpunch ...
Vibrant Clear Regret
  09/18/16
WORLD STAR
flickering glassy wagecucks hall
  09/18/16
Someone please archive this in that oneshotkill thread
Wonderful dull dog poop school
  09/18/16
Done
Stirring Stag Film Fanboi
  09/18/16
...
boyish orchestra pit
  08/21/17
(revisionist Photoshopping Confederate flags into '60s pro-C...
soggy coral forum water buffalo
  08/27/17
TAKE THAT OP YOU FUCKING DUMB NIGGER KIKE MONKEY
harsh rehab
  09/18/16
...
duck-like federal indian lodge hissy fit
  09/18/16
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duck-like federal indian lodge hissy fit
  09/12/20
Edit: Fuck libs and Northern scum
Vibrant Clear Regret
  09/18/16
Yes. For example, in a war, the friendly side will see a fla...
Violet faggot firefighter space
  09/18/16
what does being against the confed flag have to do with seei...
Twinkling Liquid Oxygen
  08/27/17
Dear Faggot, No. Thank, Thnak
Cracking Pearl Incel
  09/18/16
...
boyish orchestra pit
  09/12/20


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Date: September 18th, 2016 7:39 AM
Author: metal vivacious mother

That is, your symbol of courage, valor, and military service might also be a symbol of shared values, justice, and equality for others? Why is it that the former is the only acceptable interpretation of the Star Spangled Banner/Flag?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434278)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:03 AM
Author: boyish orchestra pit

Sure as long as you admit the confederate flag can symbolize different things than hate and racism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434303)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:06 AM
Author: apoplectic brindle heaven



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434304)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:07 AM
Author: exhilarant indigo persian



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434308)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:10 AM
Author: metal vivacious mother

You mean like treason?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434309)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:12 AM
Author: Floppy private investor athletic conference

not helping your point here breh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434312)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:15 AM
Author: metal vivacious mother

I'm all for Southerners who take pride in their traditions and heritage.

But the Confederate flag was the chosen symbol of an uprising against the US that resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Americans. You can try usurp it to mean Southern pride, but so long as you still call it the Confederate flag it's still treason against America

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434319)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:17 AM
Author: Concupiscible offensive hunting ground box office

Stop erasing their experiences.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434323)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:18 AM
Author: metal vivacious mother

The experience being open rebellion?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434328)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:31 AM
Author: histrionic quadroon indirect expression

UNTHKEW

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434478)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:17 AM
Author: Floppy private investor athletic conference

still not helping your point breh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434327)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:23 AM
Author: metal vivacious mother

Not following you.

The symbol can mean whatever you'd like it to, but that doesn't erase it's history.

Nobody is trying to rewrite the history of the American flag by seperating its imagery from military service. There're trying to amend it to mean a country worth fighting for

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434334)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:26 AM
Author: frisky area

Some things can't be amended friend. It's literally the only thing that ties our country of misfits together.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434337)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:33 AM
Author: Floppy private investor athletic conference

possibility one is that a flag means multiple things in that it means different things to different people

so to a vet it could mean military, etc. and to a hoodrat it could mean oppression

so to kaepernick it means oppression, and not honoring veterans or however else a vet might see it. fine. so the confederate flag can represent southern pride to the southerner, the other associations notwithstanding.

possibility two is that a flag represents multiple things to everyone and some people choose to respond to particular associations or prioritize some associations over others.

so kaepernick prioritizes the oppression view. fine. southerners can prioritize the southern pride view of the confederate flag.

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you're not giving equal treatment here if you say that we have to respond to the confederate flag in one particular way because of one of its particular associations, but don’t give the us flag the same treatment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434346)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:22 AM
Author: Turquoise heady brethren



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434459)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:24 AM
Author: Thriller Learning Disabled Scourge Upon The Earth



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434465)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:19 AM
Author: Glittery trust fund

ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434329)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:42 AM
Author: Vibrant Clear Regret

That uprising was entirely caused by the North.

Don't rewrite history and claim all the sudden that you're the non-violent one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434522)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:59 AM
Author: Thriller Learning Disabled Scourge Upon The Earth

No one can force you to betray your country

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434603)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 10:23 AM
Author: Vibrant Clear Regret

Their "country" was determined to make their private property (most of a person's net worth, in some cases) instantly worthless, and they correctly deduced its actors were on a moral crusade instead of reaching a practical political and compensatory solution like literally every other country who dealt with the slavery issue.

But tell me against about the moral high ground of burning every home in the South to the ground, Yankee scum.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434687)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 10:25 AM
Author: Thriller Learning Disabled Scourge Upon The Earth

Only the very wealthy owned slaves, not exactly a "moral" issue that benefited the impoverished men who actually fought in the war.

The South is luckily that they weren't roundly massacred after the war

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434699)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 11:26 AM
Author: Vibrant Clear Regret

It doesn't matter how many people owned slaves in the context of who could have avoided a war. It matters that there were plenty of alternate paths for the arrogant Yankees to take and they didn't take them. Plain and simple. And when you essentially endorse them being massacred, you prove you didn't give a shit about anything involved except for sticking it to people you called "treasonous" for not being loyal to a country they didn't recognize.

No wonder the fucking North keeps shoving its shit policies down the South's throat today; it's all they ever knew.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434979)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 11:29 AM
Author: Thriller Learning Disabled Scourge Upon The Earth

"not being loyal to a country they didn't recognize."

See, that's the thing. You cant just choose to not recognize your government. I'd love to stop paying taxes, but I'd go to jail

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434997)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 11:51 AM
Author: Vibrant Clear Regret

(George III)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31435108)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:16 AM
Author: Adventurous gaming laptop set



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434322)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:17 AM
Author: Rough-skinned bipolar site elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434324)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:37 AM
Author: Lascivious office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434357)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:47 AM
Author: galvanic school cafeteria roast beef

PWN

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434376)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:48 AM
Author: walnut insanely creepy marketing idea resort



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434382)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:49 AM
Author: Stirring Stag Film Fanboi

ONE | SHOT | KILL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434388)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 8:49 AM
Author: 180 magenta corn cake

An OP is det

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434389)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:10 AM
Author: snowy cerebral lay

OP was gud keed. Did't du nuffin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434438)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:15 AM
Author: Rebellious awkward toaster parlor

OP done here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434443)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:23 AM
Author: Thriller Learning Disabled Scourge Upon The Earth

Did OP not think this through for 5 seconds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434462)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:29 AM
Author: Khaki godawful nursing home coldplay fan

Put this in the category of first reply killshots

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434472)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:30 AM
Author: histrionic quadroon indirect expression



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434476)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:32 AM
Author: Ungodly exciting stage juggernaut

FATAL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434480)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:49 AM
Author: Vibrant Clear Regret

*OP crumples defenselessly to the most obvious counterpunch imaginable*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434567)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:50 AM
Author: flickering glassy wagecucks hall

WORLD STAR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434572)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:53 AM
Author: Wonderful dull dog poop school

Someone please archive this in that oneshotkill thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434584)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:59 AM
Author: Stirring Stag Film Fanboi

Done

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434608)



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Date: August 21st, 2017 9:03 PM
Author: boyish orchestra pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#34041089)



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Date: August 27th, 2017 5:16 PM
Author: soggy coral forum water buffalo

(revisionist Photoshopping Confederate flags into '60s pro-Civil Rights anti-Segregation rallies)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#34079725)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 11:32 AM
Author: harsh rehab

TAKE THAT OP YOU FUCKING DUMB NIGGER KIKE MONKEY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31435015)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 5:17 PM
Author: duck-like federal indian lodge hissy fit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31437414)



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Date: September 12th, 2020 1:31 AM
Author: duck-like federal indian lodge hissy fit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#40907636)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:39 AM
Author: Vibrant Clear Regret

Edit: Fuck libs and Northern scum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434505)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 9:54 AM
Author: Violet faggot firefighter space

Yes. For example, in a war, the friendly side will see a flag as a symbol of one's own side, while the enemy will see the it as a symbol of the enemy's side.

That's why it's a little troubling that libs all seem to see America as the enemy, and cheer it's downfall.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31434586)



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Date: August 27th, 2017 5:18 PM
Author: Twinkling Liquid Oxygen

what does being against the confed flag have to do with seeing America as the enemy?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#34079735)



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Date: September 18th, 2016 11:30 AM
Author: Cracking Pearl Incel

Dear Faggot,

No.

Thank,

Thnak

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#31435003)



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Date: September 12th, 2020 1:24 AM
Author: boyish orchestra pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3355523&forum_id=2#40907631)