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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis
Are you saying The Civil War wasnt about slavery or that enslaving 13 million people was much better than gassing 11 million?
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slavery was one factor leading to the cause of the civil war but not the only... do you think WWII was about jews? do think confederate soldiers went into battle screaming fuck n*ggers? or union soldiers screamed god save the blacks?
to break a civil war situation to such a simple statement, while fine for the common politicalized narrative, is hardly realistic... don't you think?
the Nazi flag symbolizes a political agenda and the policies of a political movement... have you ever heard of the
Wehrmacht? Wehrmacht was and probably still is the German army with their own battle flags totally independent of the Nazi flags
St Andrews Cross or what is commonly mistaken for the confederate flag was a battle flag for the southern army/navy... and just as all battle standards do, the St Andrews Cross symbolizes honor, family and country... trust me on this one... there were no loud mouth politicians running to the flag in the fog of war... it was men just like you and, me trying desperately to save the lives of our friends and family...
to insist that the confederate battle flag is the flag symbolizing slavery is ... well just uneducated... by that analogy the marine corps flag and symbol are then flag and symbols of the United Sates.
my personal opinion is the battle flags being flown need to be lowered with honor and placed safely away somewhere ....