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Originally Posted by dyna mo
no, it's not accurate to handwave off people that interpret that flag as a symbol of racism as ignorant. flags represent a myriad of things to different people, for instance, the American flag certainly does NOT represent freedom to a lot of people, that doesn't make them ignorant. same with the confederate flag.
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Flags represent what they are meant to represent. If some people misinterpret them or use for wrong purposes it does not change the meaning of the flag.
If I create a flag with sun and clouds and say it represents nice summer days and some people take that flag and says it represents something else - surely it makes them ignorant. Or if they take it and use it in the name of killing - it does not make that flag a bad symbol. It just means that some moron wrongly used it in the name of killing.