Reply #172: Actually, that's exactly my point

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Absolutely. And I can prove it again. There was a guy in Chapel Hill who caused a huge ruckus because he had a swastika in his front yard.

He was a professor at UNC. Not the least bit racist. No idealogical connection to the Nazi party or anything at all. He displayed the symbol to educate people that the symbol had a meaning before the Nazi's stole it.

Personally, I think he was wrong to do it. I think he was an asshole for it. But he's ONE non racist person who flew the flag. You set up the rules with your absolute speech. Don't blame me for for that.

Anyway, TO THE POINT. The C flag is not the swastika. To a degree analogies can be brought between them. But that certainly doesn't mean that any analogy works. This one doesn't. The fact of the matter, and the point that you refuse to admit, is that there is a large population in the south who subscribe to the misguided, downright FALSE notion that the C Flag represents southern heritage. They refuse to open their eyes to the effect that it has on other people, but they GENUINELY feel that it represents something else. And they're NOT racist. They're NOT. OK? NOT racist.

Therefore your ongoing assertion that all people who display the symbol are racist is FALSE. Some are. TRUE.

You went out of your way in your assertion that the racist claim is all inclusive. You were wrong to do so. And now you find yourself in the same position that Dean was in, except worse. You didn't have good intentions.