It is NOT a fact if you support the confederate flag you're racist. That is equivalent to saying if you support them American flag you support the fact we put the Chinese people in concentration camps. Every flag represents something different to everyone please recognize this.
Where did you learn your history? It was the Japanese who were put in internment camps, not the Chinese. We actually had troops IN CHINA fighting with the Chinese against the Japanese at that time.
Under your logic, as long as I think the Nazi flag represents something else, I can go ahead and fly it all over and pretend its not a symbol of oppression?
No, that’s not how shit works. The Confederate flag represents racism and is constantly used by racists, most notably the KKK. The flag wasn’t even the actual confederate flag, but was a battle flag of the CSA Navy and has simply been adopted and used as a rallying symbol for the perpetuation of racism under the guise that white pride needs to be celebrated for some reason. This gives it no better status than the use of Nazi flags and symbols still used today by neo-nazis.
Now as to how the flag differs from the US flag. Simple, the United States is a still existing country. The meaning of the flag is as we make it by our actions in this country. This allows for change, good or bad. The confederate flag represents a dead institution that stood for racial inequality and spilled blood to protect that inequality and oppression. The institution no longer exists, and so it is as it stands in history.
Fact: If you support the confederate flag, then you support racism.
