One is unconstitutional to ban, while the other is treason.
I was honestly taken aback that the confederate flag is allowed to be displayed in public schools.
Those 4 years that they were treasonous to get rid of state rights to ban slavery is very important to their state history.
That’s what we get for giving the Confederates Military burials instead of an unmarked mass graves for their murderous treachery in the name of slavery.
Mercy was a mistake.
Unironically, the leaders of the Confederacy should have been executed for treason.
“Johnson embarked on a policy designed to restore the former Confederate states to civil government with maximum speed and a minimum disturbance of Southern institutions beyond the abolition of slavery itself,” writes historian Michael Les Benedict. “His policy placed former rebels in political control of nearly every Southern state and left Southern blacks to the mercies of the men who had fought so desperately to keep them in bondage.”
Tennessee: We’re not all bigots, but you shouldn’t feel safe.
Tennesseean here, this is absolutely the case. I wish there was more I could do to welcome marginalized people, but the best advice I have is to get out of here as soon as possible because things are going to get worse before they get better.
I came to say the same thing.
But I’ll say this- the nazis in Nashville the other week were only able to escape unscathed because we didn’t know they were there.
Let’s proudly expose our slavery heritage while banning a symbol of individual freedom and diversity.
Done in one.
…while claiming to support “freedom”.
1st amendment lawsuit, here we come!
That’s great, but who’s paying for that?
I’d bet actual money that the ACLU is already looking for a case to sponsor.
I don’t know how many Supreme Court Justices the ACLU can afford.
If we all kick in $25 we might be able to buy Justice Boofer some coke and a beer…
I’ll book a cruise for my very close friend Clarence
Oh he went there
Nashville has had a pride festival for the past thirty five years. They were a member of the confederacy for almost exactly five years.
BuT iTs our hiSTorY!!!
It’s history they want to repeat, not the present they want to accept
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Underage cousins*
*FTFY. Don’t forget Republicans in a bunch of states have been fighting minimum marriage age laws on top of everything else.
The only Confederate flag that represents the Confederacy is 🏳️
Anything else trying to represent the confederacy is akin to a fucking high school class ring. Like “Gratz, bud. Got anything to show for it?”
The only Confederate flag that represents the Confederacy is 🏳️
It’s actually even cooler than that. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_515980
If by cooler you mean “belongs in the kitchen”
(I only say this to emasculate those that would feel emasculated by that).
It does look like a fucking tea towel.
But… they’re showing you the class ring. That’s what they got to show for it.
(This was entirely meant as a joke.)
Woah dude what year was that?
The union jack that you see flown (just a union jack) isn’t even the flag of the confederacy, it’s specifically the flag for the army and navy of the confederacy. You are identifying yourself as enemy combatants with that flag.
The real flag of the confederacy changed a couple times. The first iteration looks like a knock-off of the US flag with 3 stripes and 7 stars in a blue field in the upper left. The second iteration had the union jack in the upper left hand side (where the US blue field and stare are) and the rest was white. Eventually they realized that it looked like a flag of surrender, so 36 days before the end of the war, the confederacy added a vertical red stripe on the far right side of the flag.
If their “heritage” was so important, you’d think they’d at least get it right!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
Your “heritage” lasted three years less than the Obama Administration.
So they are wilfully signalling that they’re traitorous scum.
The whole right wing has a perpetual sedition boner.
It’s a heritage of hate.
Confederate fascism emerges in the south
Y’all… what the fuck is happening
Christofascism
The quiet laws are being written out loud now.
Wow Tennessee, what a shit hole it’s turning into.
Tennessee GOP quietly overturns marriage equality with immediate effect
