It’s a good time to remember that the “stars and bars“ was not commonly used until the 1948 presidential election when the Dixiecrats used it as a Ku Klux Klan dog whistle.
It was never the symbol of the Confederate states of America, only one little battle group in Virginia.
That’s sad, not every Southerner, who takes pride and being a Southerner is a slobbering racist.
if you really wanna get past this current hate filled chapter and move onto a better society, we have to have a way or Southerners to have pride in the good parts of their culture. The same way we let other cultures off the hook for the bad things that have happened in their culture.
it is certainly not fair to hold people of African descent responsible for the fact that the worst part of rounding up the people that were used in the slave trade was done by Africans.
Still, to hell with the MAGAts, they’re doing this shit on purpose and they know what they’re doing.
The stars and bars is not the flag in the picture, it’s the one with the circle of stars in blue in top left corner with 2 red horizontal stripes and 1 white stripe. That was used as the first flag of the Confederacy. The one in the picture and the one everyone thinks of as the Confederate flag is their battle flag which became part of their second and third flags, the Stainless Banner and the Bloodstained Banner.
“Removal of citizens’ right to have (the license plates) is deliberate discrimination by the government and the state of Virginia … only hatred and discrimination by the Commonwealth causes a committee vote to remove them,” Edward Willis, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, told the panel.
So according to this racist asshole removing the traitor’s flag, which is a genuine symbol of hatred and discrimination from a government license plate IS hatred and discrimination.
These people are unbelievable.
They speak in bad faith. They’re just racists who are too coward to admit that they’re racist and feign outrage to justify being racist.
I bet you anything he’d figure out right quick why it isn’t discrimination if folks wanted to put the progress pride flag on their license plates.
I’d take that bet. It’s only discrimination if the state doesn’t do what Willis wants.
Why do you hate good god-fearing hateful bigot racists?
Well…
These people are unbelievable.
Insert Satre quote about anti-semites
Authorized in 1999? What in the cousin fucking?
That’s how it is in rural VA.
VA was a red state until very recently. Now it’s like light blue/purple. Still lots of stars and bars being flown down in southwestern VA.
That’s wild. Every time I drive through West Virginia and see confederate flags flying, I have to marvel at the purest form of irony to exist in these modern times.
Yeah the North/South divide has mostly morphed to Urban/Rural. You’ll see Confederate flags all over central PA too.
Hurr durr it’s their heritage
That’s not even close to the worst of it.
Lee–Jackson–King’s Day ? They’ve got this all wrong! It was meant to be “Lee–Jackson : Kings!” Day.
That’s website sucks bad.
That was a thing?
Sad loser traitors still virtue signalling all these years later. What a pathetic group of people. Thank fuck I’m not like them.
They call it the “Recent Troubles.”
Nothing says white privilege like tax breaks for racist losers.
I personally think everyone should have the right to fly the confederate flag and i also think anyone flying it should be prosecuted for hate crimes.
