DangerBryceI always find it interesting how different the interpretations are of this flag between people who fly it and people who live outside the south.
If you ask your average redditor or lemmite, it’s a symbol of the utmost hatred and racism. It’s a symbol that supports slavery and white nationalism. After all, that’s what the confederacy was fighting for, right?
If you ask the average person who flies the flag, it actually has nothing to do with those things. It’s about freedom from tyranny. It’s about independence, and not allowing the guy with the big stick to tell you what to do.
The average redditor/lemmite will say, “Yeah, but the whole reason they fought for independence was to keep slaves!” And you would be right, if we were talking about the people flying the flag during the Civil War. A lot has changed since then. Hell, even at the time, it was the wealthy who cared about the right to own slaves. The average soldier was just told that the war was about independence from an authority that wanted to dictate how they lived their lives.
Given the relatively recent battle for civil rights, trans rights, etc, I would think people could empathize with not wanting other people thousands of miles away to dictate your laws and morality. But that’s the funny thing about power. When you don’t have it, those who do are oppressors. When you do have it, you’re just “right”, and you have to make sure everyone else is living by that same morally pure doctrine. The doctrine of diversity, equity, and inclusion is in power now. Anything that goes against it will be crushed.