paul_valaru said:
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NCAA boycotting having games in SC.
All because of a flag of a losing side of a war. The fact that it is used as a symbol of hategroups has nothing to do with it.
I initially thought that this post wasn't even worthy of a reply from me. Its intent is glaringly obvious.
But, seeing as I have never been one to run from a fight (I'll leave that to others...), and given that maybe sometime three years from now a new member might happen across this thread and maybe learn something from it besides the usual liberal chickenshit brainless asinine drivel that passes for thought for some folk, what the hey. Right?
Remember, y'all, I didn't start this one. Keep your whining to yourself, or direct it at the shit stirrers themselves.
So. Let's just analyze this little piece of vitriol together, shall we?
NCAA boycotting having games in SC.
OK. Fine. That has as much chance of going anywhere as a snowball has surviving a furnace. But, boycott away, ye small minded uninformed hypocrites. People boycott things every day. I personally observe an economic boycott (meaning I won't purchase...I'll try to use small words) of WalMart, Coca-Cola, General Motors, the writings of Tom Clancy, and Disney. That's one of the nifty things about being an adult. You can make decisions. You have to live with the consequences of those decisions (ideally at least), but you get to make them.
All because of a flag of a losing side of a war.
No, not all. That's an excuse, a scapegoat if you will.
The flag. Let's discuss the flag for a moment.
1. I hereby offer an unopened box of 24 Moon Pies, shipped to the address of your choice, to the first person who can show me the Confederate flag. Offer void to SimplyRed, Slim Pickens, catocom, and Fluer Vanderloo as these people have educated themselves sufficiently to know one when they see it. There may be others, and there's always Google. I wager I could walk into a meeting of the NAACP with the Confederate flag and nobody would notice. I know for a fact that a ballcap with the Bonnie Blue was given to a black man by his wife because she thought it was a Dallas Cowboys hat.
2. Why would this flag be a problem? Judging from popular opinion, many people still operate under the incorrect notion that the flag depicted in my avatar stood for slavery. That flag represented an army. An army fighting off invasion from a foreigh territory which invaded it. It never flew for one second for another purpose, despite how ell that would have fit so many theories. The flag that flew over legal slavery the longest was the American flag. The flag that flew over slave markets was the American flag. The flag on the bow of every slave ship bound for this coast was the American flag. Why doesn't the NCAA boycott that one if they want to make their statement?
I think we all know why. If you as a reader of this post do not, PM me and I will be exalted to explain it to you.
3. The losing side of a war. Well, let me think. The American flag flew in support and defense of the South Vietnamese people for a lot longer than four years, and that war was won by the North Vietnamese, so lots of flags fly that lost wars. I wasn't aware that in and of itself was a crime. Last time I checked, the Union Jack flew proudly despite losing that little tiff in the 1770s. Nobody has their panties in a wad over that. Must just be something special about this flag, huh? I certainly think there is, and I'm glad so many of you seem to implicitly agree with me. It's the first step toward true understanding, so be proud of yourselves for supporting it. Though you are doing so unknowingly, but that's OK...it ain't the only thing you unknowingly support.
The fact that it is used as a symbol of hategroups has nothing to do with it.
Lots of things are used by hate groups. The most commonly used symbol associated with hate groups is (drum roll) the American flag. So let's just start by boycotting it, because hate groups use it. Others would be British Knights sneakers (used by the Crips street gang, a hate group by any definition I would think), Notre Dame sports paraphernalia (used by white supremists), Ziploc storage bags (used by illegal drug sellers to package their products, the vast majority of which is trafficked by street gangs), Calvin Kline apparel (used by the Bloods street gang), McDonald's (even hate mongers gotta eat, right?), the Koran (fairly obvious I would think), and tofu (used by militant vegetarians and vegans universally, and they hate meat eaters).
Now. These hate groups. I have said on here until I am blue in the face (or should that be red in the neck?) that some groups have usurped the Confederate battle flag for use in their own nefarious plots. That is not the fault of the flag, those who support it, or those who fought under it. To suggest otherwise is childish, ignorant, and, well...hateful. If the skinheads started parading around the Maple Leaf flag as an icon of the ideal predominantly white society, would that make anyone boycott the Maple Leaf flag? Would it justify hatred of anyone who displayed it?
Oh, but THAT'S
DIFFERENT, right?
Lastly, let's not leave out the title of this little bait...I mean thread.
I hate to have to be the one to break this to you, but lots of people have issues with lots of things. I know people who have issues with abortion. I know people who have issues with legalizing marijuana. I know people who have issues with public school policies regarding prayer. I know people who have issues with leaving your spouse to shack up with someone else. I know people who have issues with American armed forces being deployed in Iraq. The list is endless. Does that make every issue valid? Each person will have to answer that for him or herself. My brother-in-law the minister has an issue with the removal of the Ten Commandments from public places. Am I obligated to make that my issue?
Oprah Winfrey would be unemployed if there were no people with issues.
(Come to think of it, that ain't a bad idea really...)
So some people have issues with the public display of the Confederate battle flag. In other news, Inky's Generalisimo buddy is still dead, as are Andrea Yates' children while she cavorts around a plush mental hospital instead of being on death row. I have an issue with that.
I don't like the fact that in most major American cities, the Mexican flag may fly freely. That in New York City, a wide variety of national flags can fly freely depending on the holiday or even on who won a freakin soccer game. That when a Canadian sports team plays a game in America, we must sit through their national anthem even if not one player on the team is Canadian. Yet this one flag, which stood and stands for an army of defenders of home and hearth, is reviled on its own soil.
Not on my watch. And not to my face either. Try me sometime and see.
So toddle along now. You obviously wanted a reaction, and I have patronized you with one. Feel better? More manly? More important? Fulfilled?
Didn't think so. Hate that for you. Hey, go get some of that designer coffee, that should cheer you right up. And don't worry yourself too much over us poor backward inbred gun-totin' gap-toothed stupid rednecks. We been just fine without Canadian support groups for hundreds of years now. I figure we'll survive this too. And fear not. You may continue your attacks from the safety of your keyboard without fear of anybody down this way giving you a second thought. I need to get going now. Much to do, much to do. Got a life to live and all that. But if I may be of further assistance to you, please don't hesitate to let me know. It's always a pleasure.
Deo vindice.