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But, in all seriousness, to claim people who wave or support the Stars and Bars support slavery in any form is not true. Most Southerners who wave the flag see it not as a symbol of oppression but of defiance. They take pride in the term Rebel and see it as a link to their ancestors who decided not to take shit from the northern states. The majority of the Confederates who died in the Civil War were not slave owners, nor did they have any chance of becoming slave owners. They were fighting against the people who profited most from slavery and yet would try to seem morally superior an entire region that fueled their own bank accounts. Secession was the cause of the Civil War and the ideal that the men on the ground were fighting about on both sides. (I will never call into question the fact that slavery led to secession. I'm just saying that's not why the fighting started.) It's revisionist history bullshit that depicts the Northern soldiers as fighting to free the slaves and the Southerners fighting to keep them in chains.

Basically, what I'm saying is that if you brand everyone who has or supports the Confederate flag as in some way, no matter how minor, as supporting slavery, then you would have to brand everyone who salutes the US flag as supporting the same slavery as well as the genocide of the Native Americans.