Confederate flag... WTF?

[wbks]

I keep seeing them as patches on this aussie biker gang show on right now, and I have seen them so many times in the cab of trucks, on peoples walls and on clothes etc here in NZ... So why? No one I've seen with one is from (the south of) the states, mostly know nothing about the American civil war, and always seem to be red necks who at a guess are only interested in the racial slavery involved with it...

So why do people have them? C'mon, I'm sure someone here has one

[SARGE]

I keep seeing them as patches on this aussie biker gang show on right now, and I have seen them so many times in the cab of trucks, on peoples walls and on clothes etc here in NZ... So why? No one I've seen with one is from the (south of) the states, mostly know nothing about the American civil war, and always seem to be red necks who at a guess are only interested in the racial slavery involved with it...

So why do people have them? C'mon, I'm sure someone here has one

yea .. i have one ..or 2


but i really do come from a long line of horse thieves and moonshiners

[wbks]

Actually, if you had one I could respect that, because I can understand that the flag could represent a piece of your family/area's history that goes further than pretty much the only thing people associate it with. Racism/slavery. I just find it funny when someone who has usually never even been there wears the flag because of what I just mentioned.

[MisterD]

Simple...Wannabe "rebels" display that flag in exactly the same unthinking way that wannabe "revolutionaries" wear Che Guevara t-Shirts...plonkers the lot of 'em. Either that or they're old school Dukes of Hazard fans like Sarge.

[98tls]

Reminds me of our offerings back in the day ie Mongrol Mob sporting Nazi party flags.Germanic forefathers must have pissed themselves.

[SARGE]

Either that or they're old school Dukes of Hazard fans like Sarge.

nah man .. 1/2 my family fought on the Union side and the other half fought for the Confederacy.. found out 2 ancestors actually fought in the same battle on different sides


and the ones who wernt firing guns were selling them

[98tls]

Actually, if you had one I could respect that, because I can understand that the flag could represent a piece of your family/area's history that goes further than pretty much the only thing people associate it with. Racism/slavery. I just find it funny when someone who has usually never even been there wears the flag because of what I just mentioned.

The origins of said flag (if its the one your on about) are often confused,its the battle flag of Northern Virginia,no racism no anything,simply the battle flag of northern Virginia.

[Elysium]

"Big wheels keep on turning..."

[wbks]

Reminds me of our offerings back in the day ie Mongrol Mob sporting Nazi party flags.Germanic forefathers must have pissed themselves.

I don't know how long it's been since you have been in a High school, but it's really seriously funny right now how many Maori "gangsters" (just saying... They aren't exactly blond haired blue eyed western euros) walk around saying/shouting "seig heil" I think it's some mongrel mob thing?

nah man .. 1/2 my family fought on the Union side and the other half fought for the Confederacy.. found out 2 ancestors actually fought in the same battle on different sides


and the ones who wernt firing guns were selling them

lol badass.

[scumdog]

Total fun here then - ride a Harley, wear tassled jacket, open faced helmet with skull-mask, bars'n'stars bandana around my neck....

[wbks]

Total fun here then - ride a Harley, wear tassled jacket, open faced helmet with skull-mask, bars'n'stars bandana around my neck....

I wouldn't give a shit... If you just like the way it looks than who cares?

The origins of said flag (if its the one your on about) are often confused,its the battle flag of Northern Virginia,no racism no anything,simply the battle flag of northern Virginia.

Yea, but a confederate flag, nonetheless?

[kasper]

Yep got one.

even has a skull and cross bones across the front. and yes i do display it whilst in the truck.
Who needs a black backgroudn when you have the red white and blue.

--kasper

[98tls]

I wouldn't give a shit... If you just like the way it looks than who cares?

Yea, but a confederate flag, nonetheless?

Indeed it was.Though with far less sinister meaning then than what is conveyed these days,or at least mis-understood.

[wbks]

Yep got one.

even has a skull and cross bones across the front. and yes i do display it whilst in the truck.
Who needs a black backgroudn when you have the red white and blue.

--kasper

How come?

Indeed it was.Though with far less sinister meaning then than what is conveyed these days,or at least mis-understood.

Yea dude, of course it is misunderstood, that's why I said so many rednecks seem to have them.

[Mikkel]

I don't know how long it's been since you have been in a High school, but it's really seriously funny right now how many Maori "gangsters" (just saying... They aren't exactly blond haired blue eyed western euros) walk around saying/shouting "seig heil" I think it's some mongrel mob thing?

Ross Kemp's exposé on the gangs of NZ kinda explained the MM approach to nazi symbolism - it's not so much about the nazis, it's just about pissing off the establishment. In which case it makes perfect sense...

The biggest difference between white supremacists today and those of half a century or more ago, is that the average IQ has fallen significantly. The truly scary thing about the nazis is the fact that plenty of intelligent, talented, hardworking and ambitious men bought into it.