who finds the rebel flag offensive?
408222
the bebel flag dosent have a damm thing to do with hate and any one who finds it offensive needs to study up.\nif they still find it offensive they need shot just for being a dumbasx
684686
There are some blacks who see the flag as what it is.. the former battle flag of the Confederate Army that represented States' Rights and opposition to the Federal government. It was not a symbol of racism until the Klan hijacked it. \n\nAlso, there are many blacks who are descendents of the handful of black soldiers that fought on the side of the confederacy.  There is also a huge biking movement in the black community and the flag is used by a lot of bikers.\n\nI do know that there are even black Sons of the Confederacy in Nashville.
659937
Unless something's changed....flying another country's flag upside down, meant you conquered that country.\nPoor fools. Apparently they don't realize they're shooting themselves in the foot, and that a good number of people in this country are getting tired of them demanding "rights" that no one else has ever been granted.
722834
France.\n\nHISTORICAL NOTE:  This incident occurred prior to the recent riots where two 15 year old rioters completely destroyed the White Flag factory near Paris.  Government spokesman, Sock Ray Blue, said "the factory is crucial to the French government, the highest priority possible has been assigned to the rebuilding efforts".  Additionally, he asked all potential attackers to please refrain until France's ability for "rapid surrender" is restored.
895557
I live in Kentucky so I'm used to seeing the rebel flag. They argue that it's their heritage. I still think it's completely disrespectful to African Americans and the progress that we've all made as a society. The flag is just to reminiscent of a not so distant past that was filled with nightmares. \n\nI did a research report about the flag my senior year of high school. I found that most people who proudly display that flag don't even know everything that it represents. And I hate those shirts that say If this shirt offends you then you need a history lesson. I just want to scream, I've had my history lesson redneck. You're the one who needs to get an education. The civil war is over, the rebels lost, and we have a new national flag. OMG!! Yes, that much has really changed. \n\nOh I just wanted to add b/c I read something above me about it not representing racism. After losing the war six Confederate veterans started the Ku Klux Klan.The Klan grew quickly with the addition of more former rebel soldiers. They reeked violence such as rape, murder, beatings, lynching, and burnings on African Americans. \n\nWhen you display the American flag on your shirt it’s because you support America and it’s cause. By displaying the rebel flag you are in turn saying you support the rebels and their cause. You may argue that it’s your heritage, but that can be debated. If an Indian wore a shirt displaying a swastika and then explained to you that before it was a symbol of hate it was an Indian symbol for good luck (which is true). Would you be any less outraged? Would this appear any less disrespectful to the Jews and the American soldiers who fought in WWII? After all it is his heritage, right? \n\nThe flag stood for so much wrong in the past that you can't wipe away all of that hate. There's nothing you can do to make that flag okay. It's racist and it's disrespectful.
932810
It's meant to insult what the flag stands for. It is an act of defiance. It too is symbolic but it changes no policy.
8132
"A while ago, the US government released guidelines for proper display of the flag. When the flag is not a “real” flag on a flagpole – like on a patch or painted on a vehicle, the blue star field must always point in the direction of movement. That way, the flag always looks like it’s blowing in the wind. It is not all Army patches that are reversed – only the right arm. The left arm is already oriented in the proper direction. It’s not just patches that follow these guidelines. \n\nTake a look at airplanes, Greyhound busses, Humvees – any moving vehicle that has a flag painted on it. The right side of the vehicle has the flag painted reversed, and the left side is “right.” \n\nIn a weird way, it kinda makes sense."
592212
"A patriot wraps himself around the flag to defend it; a scoundrel wraps it around himself to defend himself”\n\nI would vote for the latter...
853596
No.\n\nIn September 1961 Syria revolted and 29 September the old flag of Siyria  was raised as the national flag. In the center of the flag are three red stars which stand for the Arab revolutions (although certain western sources clain thay represent Damascus, Aleppo and Deir ez Zor). \n\nhttp://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/sy-his2.html#1961\n\ns
1148960
I think most of us tend to react negatively to that flag as well as to  many other symbolic things that we have come to associate with  bad things like a burning cross , a Nazi  symbol...etc.... and no matter how they defend using it   ( some say its just honoring their dead confederate soldiers etc.) you just can't help but feel that person  wishes the south had won and they wish it will rise again...so yep.... its still scary!
1103890
NO.\n\nBecause the very idea that the flag symbolizes is the freedom to do what I want, say what I want, and protest what I want.
995116
Country X is supporting terrorism through their inaction. If they won't do something to stop the deaths of millions of your people, you should be well within your rights to hold them accountable for the actions of their citizens, rebels or not. If you have to take them out just to fight the rebels on their home turf instead of yours, then so be it.
209418
it's a flag it's supposed to..
131638
Yes. People are free to interpret any respresentation any way they wish. That's part of what that flag represents.
790163
Most people believe that the Confederate Flag (more correctly known as the Confederate Battle Flag) is a symbol of hatred and division. They have been taught that the Civil War was fought because of slavery, and they feel that everyone who fought for the Confederacy were slave owners and believed in slavery.\n\nThere are others who are using this misconception for their own political agenda, and to CAUSE the hatred and division that they are screaming about. By maintaining this hatred, and racial tension, they gain and keep hold of the public's attneion, and the fame and power that comes with it. It is very much like the Whitre Supremist groups that spot false "evidence" in order to maintain their power in the public eye. Without the hatred and TV cameras that they need to spread their falsehoods, they just become another worthless, faceless person in the crowd.\n\nThe simple fact of the matter is this: 98% of the people who fought in the gray uniforms had never seen a slave before. Slave owners were usually rich, and it has almost always been the middle income and the poor who have populated the world's military services. They couldn't have cared one way or another if another rich boy had a few slves or not... it didn't affect his life in the very least.\n\nFinally, the Civil War was fought for a few reasons, the main one being the issue of State's Rights. The Confederate States believed that each state knew more what its citizenry needed and wanted than some faceless beauracrat in some city so far removed from them that they didn't know anything about them. The Confederate States believed in a weak centralized government and that the states had more rights than that centralized government. THAT is what the majority of the boys in gray were fighting for. \n\nThe Confederate Flag is very simply the flag they took into battle, and means nothing more than the UNion Jack, or the Maple Leaf, or the Rising Sun.
189932
Toss up between the USA, the Netherlands, Isreal, and England.  Depends on the day.  France is a runner up in African countries.  Usually, the governments where these flags are burned would shoot anyone who dissagrees with the burning of that particular flag...Which speaks volumes of our adversaries.
190830
The constitution says "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" it does not say that the government will provide this happiness, just that it guarantees your right to pursue it. so many people these days seem to have forgotten this fact and act as if the government owes them something. As for the red, white and blue on our flag, I can only speculate to that, but I would assume that since Betsy Ross designed and sewed the first flag that it was made from colors she chose. The Bible is were you learn that we are all precious in Gods eyes.