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Just ordered a Confederate flag?

Just ordered a Confederate flag for my living-room wall. I am in the UK and never been to the US, but would like to visit the southern states. Am I a racist or do I just acknowledge US history. I am not a Klan member.

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  • Anonymous
    9 months ago

    Perhaps you are just not very smart?

  • Leo
    Lv 7
    9 months ago

    I just ordered some Union Jack toilet paper.

  • 9 months ago

    You're probably referring to the common battle standard flown by the Confederate army units fighting in the Civil War. 

    I doubt you are referring to the Flag of the Confederate States of America.

    I'm glad that you're interested in history,  I just hope that you're willing to study harder.

  • 9 months ago

    It doesn't make you a racist.

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  • Jas B
    Lv 7
    9 months ago

    Acknowledging history is one thing, displaying a racist emblem of a flag which it's creator described as;

    “As a people we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; A white flag would this be emblematical of our cause. Upon a red field would stand fourth our southern cross, Gemmed, preserving in beautiful contrast the red white and blue.”   William T. Thompson April 23, 1863

    is something else, this is the flag of traitors who took up arms against their government to keep the right to buy and sell men women and children, who if they wanted they could murder, rape and assault with no consequences.

    This is a racist symbol and maybe you should read more American history which will tell you that the people who fought under this flag were responsible for the deaths of 600.000 Americans, more than died in WW1, WW2, the Korean and the Vietnam war combined.

  • Anonymous
    9 months ago

    Folks are flying them all over around here, I guess it is just not a big deal...

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