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You're right, I'm not God, and I certainly have the right to TELL someone how to think; that's called free speech, anon. I do NOT have the right to MAKE them think the way I want. That would be a violation of their rights. All I'm saying, is, be ready when someone who's "got the t-shirt" calls out some bullshit.
Being someone that lives an an area where this is still an active discussion, it actually (partially though my vote) IS my decision to make with all my fellow southern voters. Unfortunately for those that hold vehemently to these relics, they are getting outvoted (out numbered if you really want to get down to it), and these things are going to go away. Period. I simply was pointing out that BLM/Antifa are being used to accelerate that process; that's all.
My stance is preserve them in museums. If your stance is "Fly the rebel flag over the capital", then you are advocating, openly, for the principles on which the Confederacy was founded; Self Governance, and the implied constitutional right to Secede. Again, nothing wrong with that, but it flies in the face of our currently reality. One that, as we sit and type, anons are taking an oath to a movement where symbols of division are shunned.
Again, take what I was saying in my original post to task. It's duplicitous to suggest that their removal is "wrong", while pushing an agenda of togetherness and unity (patriotism). I hate that this seems to fly over some folks' heads, but it's the truth.
“If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation … to a continuance in the union …. I have no hesitation in saying, ‘Let us separate.'”
-Thomas Jefferson
(You know, the one that ended the slave trade)