On the confederate flag:
I can tolerate it.
And I used to think that people who complained of it being a symbol of slavery and racism were totally off base.
Then I got thinking.
Certain symbols, for one reason or another, take on a meaning that becomes just too damn universal to ignore.
For example, the Roman salute, the outstretched right arm, was once so common that people in America used to use it to pledge allegience to the US flag.
Then came Nazi Germany.
The roman salute became so synonomous with Heil Hitler that no one can use without too many people thinking of Nazism
Now, someone COULD argue they don't mean to imply Nazism if they use it. They could argue about its long history in the world, including in the US, and factually they would be correct.
But sometimes things become too much a symbol of ONE thing.
And I think that may be the case with the Confederate flag.
