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Wilshire Feb 27, 2024

Tennessee GOP votes to keep Confederate flags in classrooms but ban pride flags

https://lemmy.world/post/12490099

Tennessee GOP votes to keep Confederate flags in classrooms but ban pride flags - Lemmy.World

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foggy Feb 28, 2024

The only Confederate flag that represents the Confederacy is 🏳️

Anything else trying to represent the confederacy is akin to a fucking high school class ring. Like “Gratz, bud. Got anything to show for it?”

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octopus_ink Feb 28, 2024

The only Confederate flag that represents the Confederacy is 🏳️

It’s actually even cooler than that. americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_515980

A Flag of Truce

By late 1864 the war was coming to an end. In December Gen. William T. Sherman completed his destructive march to the sea. Richmond, the Confederate capital, fell early in April, and on April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

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foggy Feb 28, 2024

If by cooler you mean “belongs in the kitchen”

(I only say this to emasculated those that would feel emasculated by that).

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Tbird83ii

Also a dishrag that belongs in a kitchen: 28th Virginia Battle Flag

Minnesota has a Confederate symbol — and it is going to keep it

Minnesota has a Confederate symbol in its possession. It has long caused controversy. And Minnesota is not moving it.

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