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Only revisionists here at those trying to divorce the rebel battle flag from its (much deserved) historical association with slavery.

As for the unnamed racist symbols of WW2: what's that got to do with anything? Please stay on topic.

Which is why you wouldn't be included in any intelligent discussion about the US Civil War if it was possible. But, here we are.

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Which is why you wouldn't be included in any intelligent discussion about the US Civil War if it was possible. But, here we are.

This isn't a discussion of the Civil War. Do try and keep up and not derail yet another thread with irrelevant tangents.

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Looks like Black Dog is the only one the three who isn't a fanboy of a certain Nazi officer.

Just for clarification's sake.

“There is a limit to how much we can constantly say no to the political masters in Washington. All we had was Afghanistan to wave. On every other file we were offside. Eventually we came onside on Haiti, so we got another arrow in our quiver."

--Bill Graham, Former Canadian Foreign Minister, 2007

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Try to stay on topic if you can. I trust that the mods will deal with such antics in short order.

:)

It's precisely as on or off topic as was your post, to which mine was a reply.

It's bad form to hold others to a higher standard than you hold yourself.

“There is a limit to how much we can constantly say no to the political masters in Washington. All we had was Afghanistan to wave. On every other file we were offside. Eventually we came onside on Haiti, so we got another arrow in our quiver."

--Bill Graham, Former Canadian Foreign Minister, 2007

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Guys,

Anybody who posts a hint of a personal attack will take a vacation.

Ch. A.

We do not have time for a meeting of the flat earth society.

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:)

It's precisely as on or off topic as was your post, to which mine was a reply.

It's bad form to hold others to a higher standard than you hold yourself.

Don't worry about other people. Just make sure you follow forum rules. The "but somebody else did it" is irrelevant.
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Don't worry about other people. Just make sure you follow forum rules. The "but somebody else did it" is irrelevant.

Amen.

We do not have time for a meeting of the flat earth society.

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Looks like Black Dog is the only one the three who isn't a fanboy of a certain Nazi officer.

Just for clarification's sake.

Enjoying that Olympic torch-light parade? Especially ironic happening in Russia. Don't you think so? Meanwhile, nobody is actually a fanboy of Admiral Donitz any more than an armored officer is interested in what Guderian has to say on the Blitzkrieg. I suppose we could engage in rewriting history which is so popular these days and give him an evil mustachio to suit today's ideal. But, unlike Himmler or Eichmann or Heydrich, Donitz was a soldier. As was Robert E. Lee, Thomas Stonewall Jackson or Albert S. Johnston.

Just for clarification sake.

7th-miss_0.jpg

7th Mississippi Regiment, Army of the Tennessee circa 1863.

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I'm somewhat baffled as to why many Canadian rednecks choose to identify themselves with the Confederate flag, however.

-k

Probably the same reason many Canadians of African descent identify themselves with the very US-born "black culture" there. Though, I'm at a total loss as to why they do that, as well.

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Enjoying that Olympic torch-light parade? Especially ironic happening in Russia. Don't you think so? Meanwhile, nobody is actually a fanboy of Admiral Donitz any more than an armored officer is interested in what Guderian has to say on the Blitzkrieg. I suppose we could engage in rewriting history which is so popular these days and give him an evil mustachio to suit today's ideal. But, unlike Himmler or Eichmann or Heydrich, Donitz was a soldier. As was Robert E. Lee, Thomas Stonewall Jackson or Albert S. Johnston.

Just for clarification sake.

7th-miss_0.jpg

7th Mississippi Regiment, Army of the Tennessee circa 1863.

Irony here being Donitz himself attempted to rewrite history by casting himself as a soldier's soldier who was just following orders after the war when he was a loyal and vocal follower of Hitler's ideology throughout the conflict. But then it's no surprise: the next coherent argument you make will be your first.

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Sorry, not buying the "racist because of slave states" if one does not hold the Union or Canadian flag to the same standard, as the "human rights" violations under those flags (including slavery, internments, legal discrimination, residential schools, etc.) is well documented. Slavery was an economic system based on far more than race.

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

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