Reply #270: Wow [View All]

I would certainly defend anyones right to use any symbol of their choosing. I dont need to agree with the politics behind the symbol, only the right of people to express themselves. However I think you missed my point altogether. How attractive is the US flag to countries that have beenthe victim of sanctions and carpet bombing. My point is that the symbols of nations carry with them different connotations depending on where you are sitting. Stalin was a brutal pig, he did not create the hammer and sickle, he need not be the only thing directly tied to that symbol. Hitler on the other hand actually designed the swastika. That symbol absolutely stands for one thing, the Nazi party. Should we forget that old glory hung in the south during slavery for much longer than the confederate flag? Does it ease our minds to heap that negative part of our history onto a symbol that in its essence, was one of rebellion. The civil war was not fought strictly over the issue of slavery, and the confedrate flag was not created as a pro slavery symbol.