EDIT: Turns out the noose was already in the garage and was used to lower the main door. It was not a racial attack.
"Nascar moved quickly and by Monday, FBI agents were at the track. On Tuesday, authorities said the rope had been hanging there since last fall and thus was not a hate crime targeting the 26-year-old Wallace."I just don't get that. Why would anyone be proud of being a loser and a racist? I mean, I checked my history books from elementary school and they clearly say that the seceded states lost the Civil War and are now, once more, part of the United States of America. They lost. In humiliating fashion.
When a loser loses a war, the winner ... well, never that I can find... allows the loser to erect monuments to loser generals and loser leadership of that war. If anything, the winner usually erects monuments to the winners of that war. Why isn't there a proud statue of Sherman placed in every town in Georgia along the route of Sherman's March? Why aren't there statues of Ulysses S Grant littering the South to remind them that a drunkard beat their best soldiers? Why aren't there statutes and monuments to Lincoln in every single formerly-seceded state's capital to remind that state of who won the war?
Okay, you say it's not about who won or lost the war. I get that, sort of. I mean, the only other thing that flag can possibly stand for is racism, right? So, if it doesn't stand proudly for being pathetic losers, it stands for being pathetic racists. Why would you want to fly that flag and proudly proclaim, "Look at me, I'm a racist loser"? Okay, some in the South will try to argue with you that the secession and Civil War were about other things beyond slavery and racism. They are wrong. They all boil down to having slaves means you can harvest your crops of tobacco and cotton less expensively and get more profit. That's still slavery and racism. Every argument the Southerners bring up eventually leads to slavery and racism. 'It's our heritage!' Yes, one of racism and slave ownership. 'We have pride!' Why? You lost the war and have a history of racism. 'We defy/defied northern progressivism!' And you lost the war and that progressivism was fighting slavery and racism. It's time to progress. Also, if you are so against Northern progressivism, stop using a phone, don't use electric lights, absolutely don't use automobiles, or anything else that came out of northern progressivism. Put your money where your mouth is, loser.
Every now and then, one of these losers will attempt to draw a comparison between the swastika and the Confederate flag. However, this fails the smell test pretty quickly. The swastika was an enduring symbol of life and fertility for literally thousands of years until Hitler latched onto it and perverted its meaning to one of hate, oppression, and racism. (There's that word again.) The Confederate flag was specifically created to symbolize all that the Confederate States of America stood for... which was defiant racism. After they lost the war, this symbol also added a new meaning: loser. So, yet again, all history and insight bring us back to this stupid symbol ultimately meaning racism and loss. Pathetic.
Around the world, most countries didn't need to fight a civil war in order to recognize that slavery and racism was bad. Most countries had already freed their slaves or were making plans to do so. Most understood that paying for labor brought about better results and a stronger workforce. Only the Confederacy fought against this truth so hard that they had to secede and lose a war to have it drilled into them.
History books today say that Reconstruction was harsh. I don't think it was harsh enough. No winning country should ever allow the amount of rebellion and subtle fall-back to their old ways that the US allowed of the Confederacy. Every history book should be written to promote that the Confederacy stood for racism, that they lost, and that the world is better for it. Every single site of a Confederacy loss should have a plaque or a monument to it in the South. No Confederate leaders should have a statue unless it is in a museum in a Hall of Losers.
Whenever you see a Confederate flag flying, you should stop and start the old High School and College chant of, "Looo-serrr! Looo-serrr!" You should always refer to the people who live there as racists, like in the statement, "You turn right at the racist Smith house" or similar. There is not enough shame you can heap on someone who strongly identifies with a symbol that directly identifies those flying it as losers and racists. So, shame them. Make it known how pathetic that stance is.
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