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I call this Confederate flag behavior. There are a huge number of people who claim they support the Confederate flag in honor of those who lost their lives und
by ethbro 7y ago
I call this Confederate flag behavior.
There are a huge number of people who claim they support the Confederate flag in honor of those who lost their lives under it.
Okay. It was a racist and oppressive government, but I can understand that logic. People gave their lives, and even sacrifice in favor of an unjust cause is sacrifice.
That said... if that's what it's really about for them, then why didn't those folks say something when the flag was claimed by racists and white supremacists? Why didn't they defend it from those who would appropriate the symbol?
Silence carries its own liability.
And a lot of 8chan-style behavior that isn't guilty of outright instigation is certainly guilty of immoral silence.
Source: living in a southern US state
- lr4444lr 7y agoThey did try to defend it. They were what was meant by the "good people on both sides" remark. They are up against an increasingly consolidated media empire that generally does not like the man who made that comment. It's unfair to put the onus of successful promulgation of a message against a wave of misinformation and misappropriation, and condemn them for failing at that.
- ethbro 7y agoFor my example, I've lived in the south for 30 years. I don't hear much about the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy loudly denouncing racism.
- lr4444lr 7y agoThat's not its unified mission. I don't hear the BDS movement speaking out that much against suicide bomb attacks on civilians either, but that doesn't automatically delegitimize all of their arguments about the Israeli occupation.
- ethbro 7y agoIt doesn't, but IMHO it does delegitimize their position a bit by not doing so. If you're tangential to violence and hate, and you don't denounce it strongly and frequently, people are going to wonder.