Compare and contrast…

The Charleston shootings, by a white, and immediately proclaimed a hate crime prompted nationwide outrage over the Confederate flag, forcing many to take the flags down, stop selling them, or stop displaying them. There was nationwide pressure to remove/ban the flag permanently…

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The shooter’s desire to start a race war and tying that to the flag were central to their argument that the flag had to come down. Googling removal of the Confederate flag generated about 865,000 results… And not a SINGLE picture of a Confederate flag. Probably the first 50 pages of results all tied back to the Charleston shooting…

Last week a Black, gay, disgruntled employee killed two former co-workers on local TV. His apartment had a LGBT flag prominently displayed. He wanted to start a race war and blamed it on the Charleston shootings and his ‘powder keg’ feelings.

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Where are the calls for removing/banning the LGBT flag? Where are the outraged media over his support of this flag and his desire to start a race war? Where are the editorials about this hate crime???

/Crickets…

Googling removal of the LGBT flag generated about 446,000 results… And multiple pictures of it, including the White House being lit for LGBT. Not even the first page of results has ANY mention of the Roanoke shooter and his stance…

The WAPO had an interesting article HERE, on Friday ‘discussing’ the ‘perceived’ bias in coverage…

What has ALL the coverage been? Gun control! Can’t address that elephant in the room, so the default it EBIL GUNS!!! ELEVENTY!!! Can’t talk about a gay, black going off and committing a hate crime… Nope… Not PC…

This is an interesting screen cap from book of face…

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Sigh… Crap like this doesn’t give me much hope that the America ‘I’ grew up in and defended, can be salvaged. Of course since that was a Christian environment, and family oriented, and people of all races got along; so it must be denigrated, scoffed at, and made fun of…

Comments

Compare and contrast… — 13 Comments

  1. The low information voter who posted the “a person killed those people, not a flag…” comment is a typical progressive dimwit. They are incapable of intellectual consistency.

  2. My only hope is that the pendulum has swung about as far in one direction as it can, and is now beginning to swing the other way. I think one indication of this is the reception Trump has gotten…folks are glad someone in public life is finally saying stuff we have all been thinking but were too polite to say…

    The other issue with being PC is this feeling of entitlement that seems to go along with it. Bottom line is we need to teach our kids and grandkids the feeling of being entitled to working to get a good education and then a job. That work is a GOOD thing. We should feel entitled to supporting ourselves, that we are not entitled to anything we have not earned by working for…that not having a job is not PC and neither is standing there with your hand out…okay, so now I’m showing my age. 🙂 (Putting away the soapbox now…)

    Suz

  3. Worst comes to worst, I’m gonna put my flag patch upside down and try to do the best I can with what I got.

  4. 1. Don’t worry about your America. There is still plenty of it out there. Despite the government insiders’ America looking like it is the dominant form, it isn’t. There are too few people who really want all that that is. So, pull your head out of your internet and look at the late summer foliage around you. Go for a walk on a country road. Play a game of checkers with an old friend. And don’t sweat the circus.

    2. Suze, Historically, the pendulum does not swing that far in one lifetime. What comes next is collapse. Then anarchy. Then Tyranny. Then revolution and more anarchy and collapse. Then restoration. You won’t live to see it. The best you can hope for is that your kids won’t live to see it either and that things stay pretty much like they are for a good long while. Things absolutely CAN get worse and often do.

  5. 1. I think the part where there was neither a civil war fought over the subject of whether ownership of other people would remain legal in which that flag was involved nor a group of people whose hobby was dressing up like ghosts and terrorizing other people while using that flag as a symbol probably has something to do with it. I thought attacking that symbol was an incredibly dumb mis-targeting, but pretending the contexts of the two is the same is disingenuous at *best*.

    2. ….People of all races got along in the America you grew up in? I’ll admit to not knowing how old you are, but I’m going to call bullshit on that one regardless. It just means I can’t choose a decade for race riots and/or episodes in which there was an actual standoff between the federal government and state government on the subject of whether US citizens could do the same things other US citizens could.

  6. Vicki/Tim/Fargo/SPE- Agreed! Sigh…

    Suz- See Prof Hale’s comment, he’s dead on. And let’s hope it DOESN’T get any worse.

    Prof- Thanks, you’re absolutely right…

    LR- Sorry, but the civil war wasn’t over slavery… It was MONEY. The north had plenty of slaves, and wanted to keep them. Re the KKK, you also missed on that one. The REAL KKK flag is the US flag. Started by democrats during Reconstruction, if you go back and actually look for old pictures, the only flag shown is the US flag. Re the second, I’m 63, I grew up in small town Louisiana, I had black, creole and mestizo friends, spend time at their houses, and they at mine. I didn’t start seeing real racism until the mid-60s. OF course we didn’t have money, so I can’t tell you what the upper crust was doing… I never saw it. Guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.

  7. August 1st found my Smarter Half and I on the east side of Jacksonville beltway, I-295.
    There we saw scores of vehicles all of which were flying US & Confederate flags, both ensigns, battle flags (eastern and western theaters) and others I could not identify. The vehicles were spread along miles of 395. No signs or placards. Just the flags.
    Just north of the I-75/I-4 interchange is an enormous flagpole with a huge Battle Flag flying. My friend tells me there is a similar installation just south of Macon, GA. And there are two along I-95 in Virginia.
    I also saw a number of “old style” NC and GA flags along 95. Smaller. Not as noticeable. But flying all the same.
    Nothing like telling Americans they can’t do something.