This isn't a free card to just act like a jackfuck because you see someone bearing Confederacy, mind you. While someone can defend themselves by explaining that they do not support the slavery or racism aspects of what the symbol has been used to represent both in the past and still in the present, it's really what they themselves get for choosing to represent themselves with something people have appropriately come to associate with other, more darker meanings. While there's always a different way to interpret something, the swastika and colors of Confederacy are simply not two things you can so easily draw comparison to as if anyone representing some notion of "Independent Pride" is just as bad as someone waving a symbol who has (at the current time) only a single sole meaning and purpose.īut I digress from what I mean to talk about.ĭoes simply bearing the colors of the Confederacy shout "I support racism and the oppression of people I see as lower than I!"? It certainly can, it's purely up to you. The Nazi swastika doesn't really have any other avenues for any other meaning other than total support of Adolf Hitler and Socialist Germany's views while it's certainly true that some twisted individuals could start using it to symbolize some kind of warped view of 'national pride' over Germany's economical or industrial bounds made during that time, the swastika is fully embedded without question as a symbol of a simple and straight forward meaning: Germany was going to kill other people for farmland and eventually for the sake of a Genocide. Some very intelligent and smart users have been drawing parallels between the Confederate flag and the Nazi swastika but this is erroneous at best and flat out fucking stupid at worst.
However, in choosing to display a symbol like that you're basically leaving yourself open to being interpreted wrong by others who view the symbol as something more. You could fly the Confederate colors under the symbolism of just simply having southern pride and remembering your heritage just as you could fly it to symbolize your faith and support in the way the old south viewed blacks. It's like language it can only mean and represent what the person looking at it wants to see it represent. I also grew up in a part of the country (Southeast Iowa not very "south", I know, but I had a lot of stupid southerners around me) where there were ample 'southern pride' people who flew/displayed the Confederate symbol and flag.Īs for whether or not it's "racist" to simply display the flag that's kind of a 'yes it is, no it isn't' kind of thing. I'm no master on the subject, but I know a thing or two. I've studied the Civil War and American Slavery pretty in-depth.
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I clicked it and I've read a few posts and I just wanted to make some quick contributions before some mod sees me and bans me again 4 GREAT INTERNET JUSTICE!111. "I take gun safety seriously (the gun was not loaded and had no clip in) and I did not intend to be insensitive to that important issue" of gun control, he said.Alright, alright banned user here who doesn't visit this site much anymore, but I just saw this thread as I was looking up some news on the front page and cracked. He wrote that the couple, who have dated for over a year, knew he was joking. Feely retweeted a gif of the moment posted by Howard University assistant football coach Cato June, a former NFL player himself.Īfter the backlash to his Twitter post, Feely clarified that the photo was intended to be a joke. Others noted that the joke comes months after the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida.īut some of Feely's defenders saw it as a reference to "Bad Boys II," when Will Smith's character waves a gun in the face of a boy who's taking out the daughter of Martin Lawrence's character. impugning her chastity' pics," wrote Shannon Watts, founder of gun reform group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. "Oh yay - American dads have kicked off the season of 'let's pretend I'm going to shoot my daughter's date for. The photo shows him standing with his arm around his daughter and with the gun in his other hand, next to his daughter's date. Former NFL kicker Jay Feely posted a photo of himself holding a pistol while standing between his daughter and her prom date on Saturday, amusing some people with the joke but angering many others.
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