Reply #12: Wow...

[BlakeB]

Listen: you can't honestly compare the nazi flag with the confederate flag. If only because the nazi swastika still carries a heavy stigma. Much, much heavier than the confederate flag. By such logic shouldn't you consider the American flag attached to killing millions of Indians, or to having slaves for nearly 100 years before the abolishin of it in the northern states? Despite what you think, and despite the racist connotation that has been attached to the confederate flag, the civil war was hardly about slavery. Sure, slavery was an issue but that is not the reason the South attempted to leave the Union. Hell, Lincoln didn't even make the war "about" slavery until two years into the war, and even then he allowed certain northern slave states to remain in the Union to defeat the south.

Now don't confuse this reply with my supporting the confederacy, rather I'm just stating the way I see things.