A question about the Confederate and Nazi flag?

Question

As Americans, we live by the phrase, "Give me freedom or Give me death." If you are not going to give someone freedom, then give them death instead. There is atleast some dignity in death, not so in generational enslavement. So doesn't it make what the Confederacy did to African American worse than what the Nazi did to the Jews? If not, then atleast the two faults are equal on the evil scale. So why do people tolerate the Confederate flag and not the Nazi flag? You don't see Germans flying Nazi flags all around Germany or put stickers of it on their cars. It can't be about heritage cause the Third Reich lasted longer than the Condeferacy and surely the people of the South can find other ways to display their heritage?

Answer 1

Part of the reason you don't see Nazi flags flying in Germany today is because it is illegal, as is preaching Nazi ideology. The German government, and society in general looks down on anything to do with the Nazi past.

People do fly the Confederate flag, however, states like South Carolina have been pressured by the NAACP and other groups to take down the Confederate flag. In fact, the NAACP called for a boycott of S.C. a couple of years ago. The boycott did effect the economy of S.C. and the flag was taken down from the State House and put somewhere else.

Answer 2

The Confederate Flag is not unpatriotic, in fact it represents a simular rebellion of the Revolution, which also fought with slavery as a hidden point. When you look at the life of the Confederacy, which in political terms was very short, as compared to the slaughter of Native Americans under the Union Flag, you might find the Union flag has more in common, "this is long comparison, please don't hate me" with the Nazi flag

You would have to take a equal stand to your reasoning to the American flag, because of the slaughter, the mistreatment, and the forceful nature that the country made the Confederacy join back with the Union as well as how Americia was in general built on the backs of poor treatment to foriegners.

Nazi Germany, was bent on world domination.
The Confederacy wanted thier own government, not the world.
Nazi Germany executed the Jews.
Confederacy, used slaves, like the whole USA, as in the four fathers allowed it under the Union.
Americia slaughtered Indians for the land rights,......
pretty close to what happened to the Jews....we just didn't involve the world in it.

People seperate levels of tolerance by what makes them feel good.

People forget about what the U.S. did for the slaves after the Civil War, "nothing" because the big moral point was they were free.
Civil Rights caught up years later, but again, most of the struggle happened under the American flag. The South gets a lot of the blame because the winner always gets the story heard.

The Confederacy would have freed every slave in trade for the country, Lincoln even offered a slow emancipation offer that would slowly ease in the transformation. You had bull headed people on both sides but the issue of slavery and the treatment there of was guilty on all sides.

Again, the Confederacy came and went, it is a matter of how you respect the issue of the past. Before you can question the integrity of a government that lasted barley five years, you first have to question the government which it was once a part of.

Answer 3

How sad to see you compare the two. The Nazis not only gassed whole families but also tried to wipe out a whole race. They also enslaved those that they did not murder with a slavery more savage than most slaves in America ever endured. There was no dignity in the death of the Jews, they had to strip naked in front of all the male soldiers and wait in line to go into the gas chambers thinking they were waiting for a shower. Some shower they had! They also had the hope of freedom after the war. But also remember that most of the Germans were not even Nazis. That was what the most radical were. Americans did not try to destroy a whole race but what they did was bad too. When you wave the confederacy flag you are stating that you love the south more than the country as a whole because I sure don’t see them waving the American flag. If they waved both I think it would be acceptable to me.

Answer 4

The Confederate Flag is part of our American History.
It does not by any means reflect hatred or racism. It was around prior to the Civil War. The Nazi Flag was used by an American Enemy during time of War. The Nazi Party was one of the most dangerous war parties to ever walk the Earth. They baoth are just Flags of course. But it is how you display them that matters. If you put up a Nazi or Rebel Flag and wave it in the face of a Jew or African American, then you are purely misusing your rights of free expresson and speech. If you display either of them because it is your heritage, than there is nothing wrong with that. Just remember when you wave a Nazi Flag you are waving the Flag of a Pure World Enemy. When you wave the Rebel Flag, It is an American Flag, It is Red, White and Blue. And has 13 Stars on it. I wonder what those stars are for?

Answer 5

Americans have forgotten that the Civil War was not entirely about ending slavery...it is just the part that we all can agree upon that was one of the best side affects that came from the outcome.
I see the Confederate Flag as something different than what a lot of people see. I know a lot of people think it is a symbol of racism. I do not. As a patriotic American who loves this republic, I see the display of the Confederate flag as unpatriotic.
I recently moved from Michigan to Texas. And there are plenty of Dixie-loving' Rebel flag flying Texans here. I also see the flying of the Texas flag, for which I also have an affection for(if you ever lived in Texas you would know why) everywhere....which I think is great. That is until I see it higher than my beloved Old Glory. I also see flags of Mexico flying here. I am sure you can guess that I do not approve of that either. This is America and I love her!
The Confederate flag to me is just what it is named after...rebellious. The south tried to suceed from the Union. Thank God they did lose that war! The south should be glad too. Had they won the war and been granted their independance, guess what flag would be flying over the entire world, including the Union, and the Confederate states...you got it, the Nazi swastika. We would never have been able to stand divided against Hitler. But we would've found that out long before WWII.
So it does make my skin crawl when I see a Rebel flag flying. But this is a free country, and I do not see it as a racist symbol, but an unpatriotic one. I see the Brittish flag too....and no one makes a peep about that. So I guess my desire would be that the only flag flown would be the American flag, but as much as I hate the Confederate flag, what it stands for to modern day racists, and even for what its true purpose that it was intended to represent...revolt against the United States of America. I am not convinced that it shoud be illigal to fly other flags, including the Confederate flag.

Answer 6

the saying is actually "give me liberty or give me death"- patrick henry and I think that the two are equally wrong. Believe it or not there are still nazis in germany and they still promote their beliefs they do infact still wear their flags and use the swastika as their mark. either way you put it both are wrong and people still have a lot of hate and promote racisim every where. Not just the south.

Answer 7

A Nazi flag is a symbol of the bottom area of the heritage of an outstanding usa. exhibit your German heritage with the aid of shopping for A German automobile or cuckoo clock. shop in ideas both the South and Germany lost their strive against for administration, it is why we talk English and do are own menial artwork.

Answer 8

'Freedom for some but not for everyone' seems to have been the guiding principle for some groups for a long time. People know what feelings they are provoking with that particular flag. Truth is they don't care..."cos it's your problem, see?"

Answer 9

Give me liberty or give me death isn't the creed of everyone. I think there's NOTHING worse than murdering someone. That's the end. With enslavement, there is still hope. Death is the end of hope.

Answer 10

Both flags symbolized freedom from oppression despite what that crooked jew (Spielberg) portrays in his sick and erroneous movies.