David Strathairn Appreciation:
Charlie in Stars and Bars (1988)
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I'm just going to toss this out there, because I'm tired of it and it needs to be said.
In any other country, flying the flag of a failed insurrection is treason and would likely get you arrested.
In the US, it's a relatively protected freedom of speech and, while it might not be explicitly encouraged, it is not punished.
This indicates lingering sympathy with the original cause; especially when you consider that Gen. Lee told everybody to put their flags away and they only came back out after Sen. Strom Thurmond (D, SC), *a known grand wizard in the KKK*, told folks to bring them back out, as a reaction to the civil rights movement.
You heard me. The flags came back out because of civil rights.
So, stop with claims like "It's heritage, not hate", or "The civil war was only about states' rights." That's bullshit. It is a heritage *of* hate and continuing to fly the flag in its various forms indicates sympathy for a failed rebellion that sought to keep black individuals as second class citizens. TWICE
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Senate passes defense policy bill void of most GOP culture-war demands
From the article:
No Confederate battle flag, no Kekistan flag, no Nazi flag? What a relief!
Real shame, though, that service members will have to pay to put on their own productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, or "South Pacific".
Good-ish job, Senate.
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