Comments on: Displaying the Confederate Flag in Canada

By: Canadian

Canadian — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:42:13 +0000

Everyone display this flag is nothing but a Bigot.

By: jenn

jenn — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:19:32 +0000

i'm from New York. go down to Harlem waving your confederate flag, i'm sure someone explain to you exactly what it means…if you read (i know, some of you clearly lack remedial reading skills–is "remedial" too big of a word?) history books or know anything about the US Civil War, you would be perhaps slightly more capable of understanding what that flag means and what it connotes (look it up in the dictionary) to this very day. It represents slavery and white supremacy. It just does. You can try and deny it all you want, it's like waving around a Nazi flag, sure you can say the swastika represents an ancient symbol of peace, but if you have half a brain cell (i know, it's wishful thinking) you'd know exactly what it means in the modern cultural zeitgeist (once again, dictionary…try sounding out the word first).

By: John - Politics Insider

John - Politics Insider — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:09:52 +0000

Wow. Just wow. At first I wasn't even gonna bother replying, but I can't help it!

Okay, so despite trying to attack my character by pointing out my views, such as feminism or marijuana use (Tom thinks pro medicinal herb = pro all drug usage), which are opinions based in logic and education.

I am a communist (what the hell?)

I hate white people (because I mention the lack of diversity in politics)

I am a female because only females are concerned with their own health. Males apparently never think about their hair and it's unmanly to be concerned about what chemicals they put in it.

I believe there is no poverty in north america (what?)

I use the word pundit (it surprises you that I'm aware of the entire world and not just the couple acres of land you no doubt rock in your chair on)

I know Abe Lincoln still had racist attitudes. Everyone did at that time, as was the level of the current moral zeitgiest. He was also a politician and wanted to keep support from all the racist fucks who hated black people so much that they would have lynched him if he suggested that they were equals. Keep in mind that he wanted to END slavery and the confederates did not. How hard is this to understand? He wanted to end the abuse, suffering, and ownership of another human being.

You claim a rich culture. A culture who thinks feminism is a bad thing(aka hatred of women), not to mention a culture who would control women and force them to have children, a culture who only thinks with their gut emotions and doesn't step back and look at things rationally and examine the evidence. I hate to generalize a whole culture, but Tom, if you represent your rich culture, then I cackle with laughter.

P.S I live in the west, great job.

By: Tom K

Tom K — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:50:55 +0000

Dear John.
Just to create a background for everyone else about this so called John.
John is a pro drug use, pro abortion pro cliche female. (Shampoo? Hairstylist? Feminism?) Come on! You weren't very creative either. John Smith??
She is also an anti Christian, anti American Communist with a serious aversion to White people. She believes there is no poverty in North America and is keen on funneling money overseas. This is probably the result of the extensive media sponsored White guilt. Or she could be an ethnic immigrant. Please note the curious over use of the word "pundit". Not very Canadian that word.
Now that we know who we are talking to. Let me deal with the claims of slavery. Every slave ship that ever existed flew the Yankee flag. History is written by those who win the wars. Here is Abe Lincoln's Ottawa speech. Skip to the last paragraph. He was a racist. He himself admits there was no difference in cultural attitudes towards black people between the North and the South at that time.
http://mason.gmu.edu/~zschrag/hist120spring05/lincoln_ottawa.htm
I would like to re-state. A flag is the property of its people. It is a symbol of their will. A flag doesn't belong to the past, it belongs to the present. An insult to a flag, is an insult to all its people. So don't use your personal biases and shortcomings to defame a rich culture. If you are free of sin, you may throw the first stone. And finally, my flag is called the rebel flag not because its people are bandwagon jumpers. It is the opposite. We are rugged individualists who are always against a huge organized big brother governments. So I'd invite you to get out of your racial segregated City head West into the small towns of Alberta and B.C. and see what it really means to be a Confederate and a Canadian. I invite you to find out, what it means to be cleansed in Sweat and Baptized in Mud for we are the true sons of this dirt.

By: John - Politics Insider

John - Politics Insider — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:22:30 +0000

From Wikipedia:

"By 1860, sectional disagreements between North and South revolved primarily around the maintenance or expansion of slavery."

When it all boils down to it, slavery and white supremacy is the main reason for this whole confederacy thing. Again I ask you, how can you be so proud of this, when really that's pretty much what it stands for? I poured through the entire article and I could find nothing to do with being the salt of the earth, love, or any of the stuff you guys are talking about.

You guys sound more like you just jumped on some redneck bandwagon, and are attemping to modernize this flag with some new meaning while ignoring the horrible past.

Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America

By: dixiemanohio

dixiemanohio — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:18:55 +0000

I would first like to thank all the canadians that do fly the confederate flag. i myself am a proud decendent of 6 confederate soldiers from north carolina. i myself live in ohio. i am a camp commander in the sons of confederate veterans here in ohio. and would like to extend an invitation to learn read and join the SCV. just go to www.scv.org there you will find the oldest organization in confederate history. and nothing but facts and truth. also try www.southernheritage411.com and learn about the 80,000 blacks that fought for the confederacy.

By: lonnie

lonnie — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:30:12 +0000

i could see it if you live in Nova-Scotia is that where you live? if that is the case then i shall explain as simple as i can! the blue solitaire is for saint Andrews of Scotland they arrived in America mostly the South in the 1800's the orange is for the ulster-Scots who came to America in the 1700's into the appilatian

By: anthony

anthony — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:21:08 +0000

i asked a guy that has 1 displayed in canada, he said that flag represents whats lacking in our society, that ppl of 2day have no morals or tradition and that flag represents a simpler time where honour and actions were all u had

By: Tom K

Tom K — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:14:23 +0000

No Flag is free of Sin.

The Confederate Flag stands for everything that the “Earn 5 Show 25″ Bling Culture doesnt.

In short.

1.Live Simply
2.Care Deeply
3.Speak Kindly
4.Love Generously (women and drink)
5.Leave the rest to the Good Lord who made this great land.

I am Canadian.
I am not White.
I am Confederate. Which means. I belong to the Dirt that feeds me, cleanses me and grounds me.

Amen.

By: JohnH

JohnH — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:19:35 +0000

maybe bcause some Canadian such as myself consider ourselves rednecks