why do southerners still have confederate flags?

[BoomerD]

This thread is now about mis-used phrases...AKA malapropisms.

Mute point

for all intensive purposes

Doggy dog world

Escape goat (I'll bet Doc Pizza knows about those)

Pigment of my imagination

 

[Kirby]

wow, you guys didnt know it was beck and call? honestly did you never read a book before???

why read a book when there's an unlimited supply of pornography?

 

[Brigandier]

wow, you guys didnt know it was beck and call? honestly did you never read a book before???

...not sure if serious...:sneaky:

 

[FS]

Beck and call.

talk about outing all the Anand's one by one on Anandtech

 

[Wanescotting]

This thread is now about mis-used phrases...AKA malapropisms.

Mute point

for all intensive purposes

Doggy dog world

Escape goat (I'll bet Doc Pizza knows about those)

Pigment of my imagination

This illicites a response, or does it elicit a response?

 

[BoomerD]

This illicites a response, or does it elicit a response?

Well...it's kind of difficult to "illegal a response"...

(gawd-damned frogs anyway)

 

[Perknose]

Well...it's kind of difficult to "illegal a response"...

(gawd-damned frogs anyway)

Ill eagle:

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

As a Southerner, I agree with this. I'd love to have 60 or 70 sex slaves at my beckoning call.

I couldn't find 60-70 slaves in the city I'm in that I'd be will to do and my standards aren't high at all.

 

[Away]

Pride.

 

[shortylickens]

Same reason blacks give themselves African names.
They think they are holding on to their roots despite the fact they have no fucking clue what it would really be like to live that way and if given the option they would still choose the modern American way of life.

 

[IronWing]

Same reason blacks give themselves African names.
They think they are holding on to their roots despite the fact they have no fucking clue what it would really be like to live that way and if given the option they would still choose the modern American way of life.

Can you imagine the Civil War fought in the age of blogs and twitter?

"Shit! The hole freakin Union Army just marched passed my farm!"
- Eddie in Gettysburg

"Kewl story Brool!"
- Bobly

 

[Ichinisan]

Coz it's purdy.

 

[Ichinisan]

It is to remind them that if they werent a bunch of pussies and fought harder, they might have won. Thankfully the northern army, and the great hero William Tecumseh Sherman were able to prevent that and keep them in their place.

Excellent troll post! :thumbsup: 10/10

 

[zzuupp]

This thread is a lost cause.

 

[Kirby]

I couldn't find 60-70 slaves in the city I'm in that I'd be will to do and my standards aren't high at all.

Aren't you in Montgomery, or is that someone else?

If so, I can't fucking disagree.

 

[RU482]

why do southerners still have confederate flags?

The same reason people get University themed plates on their cars

 

[Ichinisan]

ill eagle:

l. O. L. !

[edit]
As many times as I edit this post, the first "L" will not switch to uppercase!

 

[IronWing]

why do southerners still have confederate flags?

The same reason people get University themed plates on their cars

That would make sense except that folks that have university plates often actually attended the universities on the plates. Everyone who fought under that flag is dead and ain't driving.

 

[RU482]

That would make sense except that folks that have university plates often actually attended the universities on the plates. Everyone who fought under that flag is dead and ain't driving.

I was thinking more along the lines of pride in something that happened in the past, but yeah, they probably are dead

 

[JulesMaximus]

This illicites a response, or does it elicit a response?

Fuck...I think I misspelled elicit in another thread. God dammit! I must be a troll!!! :|

 

[squirrel dog]

maybe just to piss off liberal whimps.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

It's the southern version of the gay-pride symbol.

 

[Scotteq]

Old but Good: http://www.theonion.com/articles/south-postpones-rising-again-for-yet-another-year,377/

 

[pcgeek11]

Probably the same reason gangbangers wear their colors. Displaying things with negative connotations is just asking for people to prejudge you. I'm not an expert on confederate history but from what I learned briefly,[/b that flag = hatred to non-southern values. The good that flag might represent means jack shit if no one outside a small circle acknowledge it.

You didn't learn very much did you.

Here you may actually learn something:

http://pointsouth.com/csanet/confederate_flag.htm by Charles Davidson

The Confederate battle flag represents all Confederates, regardless of race or religion, and is the symbol of less government, less taxes, and the right of a people to govern themselves. It is flown in memory and honor of our Confederate ancestors and veterans who willingly shed their blood for Southern independence.

 

[IronWing]

You didn't learn very much did you.

Here you may actually learn something:

http://pointsouth.com/csanet/confederate_flag.htm by Charles Davidson

The Confederate battle flag represents all Confederates, regardless of race or religion, and is the symbol of less government, less taxes, and the right of a people to govern themselves. It is flown in memory and honor of our Confederate ancestors and veterans who willingly shed their blood for Southern independence.

That and support for Jim Crow and resistance to integration. To deny that the Confederate flag was used by white Southerns as a symbol of resistance to integration and civil rights for blacks in the South is either ignorance or intentional historic revisionism.

The "less taxes" part is a purely modern contrivance.