Confederate Emblems to be Removed Nationwide.

[Lockdownn]

Does the U.S fly I.S.I.S flags on government buildings? No, so your point is?

Both sides "had racist" one of them were fighting for "racist".

OMFG Is this pleb for real? Mate, I can't even breath right now.
Never heard of Iraq or Syria I guess. Quite a few people flying that flag now n days.

I also think you mean "slavery".

I don't see those countries being fully controlled yet, unless you do..... are you there with them?

I'm just quoting what you said so essentially you're correcting yourself like you should be.

If you have nothing of substance to add to this discussion get the hell out.

[Eastern Equestria]

Too ... Islamic. Really, a crescent moon and a palm tree? What is this, Arabia?

Well, the palm looks a lot like the Afrika Korps one...

It's a palmetto tree, guys.....

You know, the kind that's indigenous to the southern Atlantic coast of the US?

[Saiwania]

South Carolina's legislature hasn't actually agreed to remove the confederate flag from display to my knowledge. Only that the current governor is in favor of that.

[Ifreann]

South Carolina's legislature hasn't actually agreed to remove the confederate flag from display to my knowledge. Only that the current governor is in favor of that.

Do they have to agree?

[Risottia]

Strawman. This isn't about individuals being barred from flying a flag. It's about governmental offices being barred from it, which is perfectly constitutional. Btw, the First Amendment does NOT recognise an ABSOLUTE freedom of speech.

I bet if the Soviet flag was flown outside any state capitol there would be hell to pay.

And at least there were periods of peace and even of alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union. Between the CSA and the USA there was nothing but war.
Which, btw, leads me to think that flying the Battle Flag of the CSA is advocating directly war, more than mere secession or autonomy.

[Tsaraine]

South Carolina's legislature hasn't actually agreed to remove the confederate flag from display to my knowledge. Only that the current governor is in favor of that.

Do they have to agree?

The law placing the Confederate flag atop the war memorial and forbidding any tampering with it can only be altered with a supermajority. So yes, they do.

[Saiwania]

Do they have to agree?

If the state senate holds more power than the governor and they vote no, I don't think the confederate flag is going anywhere. I'm not in favor of it getting removed but if it does it is no big loss.

[Risottia]

Well, the palm looks a lot like the Afrika Korps one...

It's a palmetto tree, guys.....

You know, the kind that's indigenous to the southern Atlantic coast of the US?

HAERESY! BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF COLUMBUS IN THE WESTERN INDIES THERE WAS NOTHING BUT WASTELAND! BURN! BURN THE HAERETIC PALMETTOES!

[Gauthier]

Only in the South would so many people insist that a symbol of outright treason if not racism is a proud heritage to be defended.

[Eastern Equestria]

It's a palmetto tree, guys.....

You know, the kind that's indigenous to the southern Atlantic coast of the US?

HAERESY! BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF COLUMBUS IN THE WESTERN INDIES THERE WAS NOTHING BUT WASTELAND! BURN! BURN THE HAERETIC PALMETTOES!*

*which are to later be replanted in Oklahoma

[Cymrea]

Only in the South would so many people insist that a symbol of outright treason if not racism is a proud heritage to be defended.

"It's the flag our ancestors fought for," is what I heard on the news this morning. My first thought was that the same claim could be made of the Nazi flag, and the ISIS flag, and the South African apartheid-era flag.

I wonder if Native Americans see the U.S. flag as a similar symbol of oppression, or if it would need to be one of the older versions from during the manifest destiny, westward migration period.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

South Carolina's legislature hasn't actually agreed to remove the confederate flag from display to my knowledge. Only that the current governor is in favor of that.

Do they have to agree?

It's a 2/3 vote that they have to get in both houses before removing that flag.

[Ifreann]

Do they have to agree?

The law placing the Confederate flag atop the war memorial and forbidding any tampering with it can only be altered with a supermajority. So yes, they do.

That's certainly excessive.

[The balkens]

The law placing the Confederate flag atop the war memorial and forbidding any tampering with it can only be altered with a supermajority. So yes, they do.

That's certainly excessive.

Eh, welcome to America, only 60% of people have to agree with you on anything.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

That's certainly excessive.

Eh, welcome to America, only 60% of people have to agree with you on anything.

Actually, 66%

If it was 60% it'd be a bit of an insult, don't you think?

[The balkens]

Eh, welcome to America, only 60% of people have to agree with you on anything.

Actually, 66%

If it was 60% it'd be a bit of an insult, don't you think?

66? Thats a super majority?

Wow. Where the fuck have i been in the last 20 years?

[Greater-London]

I don't understand why the Confederate flag needed to be there. Fly the US and state flags above government buildings if you desire, different flags for special occasions are fine as well. Yes the Confederate flag is a symbol of southern history and its my understanding plenty of people in that part of the world feel strongly about it; they can fly it outside their houses, put it on their car, tattoo it on their arm, put it on a t shirt ETC but not from a government building.

[Vassenor]

Actually, 66%

If it was 60% it'd be a bit of an insult, don't you think?

66? Thats a super majority?

Wow. Where the fuck have i been in the last 20 years?

It's two-thirds. So yes.

[Tayner]

Why aren't South Carolinians as proud of and as emotionally attached to their state's actual flag? It's really quite nice.

Too ... Islamic. Really, a crescent moon and a palm tree? What is this, Arabia?

No, it is South Carolina. Do you even know how the Palmetto Tree got added to the flag? At Charleston during the American Revolution, the rebels built a fort out of Palmetto logs. No one thought the fort would actually sustain a artillery barrage, but the cannon balls, literally, bounced off the logs. And therefore the Palmetto tree was added to the flag.

[Ifreann]

Too ... Islamic. Really, a crescent moon and a palm tree? What is this, Arabia?

No, it is South Carolina. Do you even know how the Palmetto Tree got added to the flag? At Charleston during the American Revolution, the rebels built a fort out of Palmetto logs. No one thought the fort would actually sustain a artillery barrage, but the cannon balls, literally, bounced off the logs. And therefore the Palmetto tree was added to the flag.

Sure, they say that. Probably to cover up how they're all Muslim.

[Laanvia]

More extreme political correctness.

[Tayner]

No, it is South Carolina. Do you even know how the Palmetto Tree got added to the flag? At Charleston during the American Revolution, the rebels built a fort out of Palmetto logs. No one thought the fort would actually sustain a artillery barrage, but the cannon balls, literally, bounced off the logs. And therefore the Palmetto tree was added to the flag.

Sure, they say that. Probably to cover up how they're all Muslim.

I live in South Carolina, and I'm not Muslim.
Or am I?

[The Qeiiam Galaxy]

Sure, they say that. Probably to cover up how they're all Muslim.

I live in South Carolina, and I'm not Muslim.
Or am I?

Then how do you explain this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Isla ... h_Carolina

[Soldati Senza Confini]

I live in South Carolina, and I'm not Muslim.
Or am I?

Then how do you explain this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Isla ... h_Carolina

"Islamville"....

what?

[Tayner]

I live in South Carolina, and I'm not Muslim.
Or am I?

Then how do you explain this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Isla ... h_Carolina

I didn't say everyone in SC isn't Muslim. I just said I wasn't Muslim.