Do you think the Confederate flag draws people into hate?

Answer 1

The last person who answered before me has a chip on their shoulder against Southern people.

In the answer that was given you find yours. Hate is not without its banners and signs, but people have to assign those meanings from the start. The Confederate flag is not a stupid rag, neither is the people who choose to fly it only from the South. Look at the answers that you have gotten, the mere mention of the flag has drawn comparisons not to everybody, but to one generalized group of people "Southerners".

People easily drawn into hate are sucked into banners and generalized views.

example- "Anyone who flys a Confederate Flag must be a racists."

People who automatically associate the banner with hate are inspired to return the hatred in kind. This is often done without thinking or compassion.

Not everyone who has a Confederate Flag is a good person.
Not everyone who has an American Flag is a good person.

Banners and Creeds separate us but they do not define us totally.

Any man can be a member of a party but not share in all of that group's views.

In the end it is the people who inspire everything. It is the people who can bring out the good or bad in any group or belief. In the end it is the individual who passes along the good, the bad, and the plain stupid.

Answer 2

The Union Jack(flag of the Confederate)is just a piece of cloth. It has no more power to draw people to evil anymore than following Old Glory(the flag of the Union)has to making a patriot saint. When you start to look at the "hidden history" one was never taught in school one see there was more barbarism and hatered under Old Glory than there was under the Union Jack. As an African American many are puzzled as to why I don't view the Union Jack more evil than Old Glory. The ideal and those behind the Union Jack were straight up about what they were doinf and thought. Those who followed Old Glory(the Stars and Stripes)make a lie and a hypocrisy of it. While fighting the Confedrate for the supposed end of slavery, and afterward as the banner of freedom and democrisy. It was only applied when it best suited Washington, or against the growing Communist or Nazi. There were no Confederate in 1900 to 1943 when there were hundreds of incidents which historians can call race riot(mostly it was race massacres). The level of barbarism rising to the height of burning alive, stoning, castration, lynching, beating to death with foreign objects and even dragging to death behind vehicles. The federal troops under Old Glory often just helped local law infrorcement(what a joke that was)disarm Black. Then rather than protecting them, went off to protect white owned homes and businesses while the mob hunted down the now defenseless Black. Neither was there any Confederates around when a young pregnant woman, Mary Turner was tied to a tree and set on fire while still alive because she had the audacity to vow justice for her huband who was lynched. And as she burned on that tree in the throes of death. One of her murderers stepped from the crowd and slit her womb open. And when the child fell to the ground, stopped its head in to the point you could not tell it was human, saying "One less n*****" As the crowd of dozens of hundreds laughed and stomped their feet in approval. This is what to expect right? As the Commander and Chief is always saying, Old Glory is the banner of this nation and this is a nation of laws. Just so long as you do not count the thousands of murderers that got away with their crime while the governemt running the nation of laws looked the other way. Nope, you can not tellme the Union Jack represents or draws people to evil. I seen enough of that under Old glory.

Answer 3

Well not really in and of itself, it is a symbol and

symbols only have the power we give them.

To some people it is just a symbol of southern

pride of people, not in a racist way. The same

as individual states have flags, for state pride.

Funny now that I type it out it does sound

rather like a symbol of hate for the reasons you

mentioned. It's not a symbol of separatism so

much as a reminder of a certain lifestyle.

With woods and rivers, hunting, kicking back in

the evening on the porch. That kinda thing.

Answer 4

I think that what it has stood for in the past reminds people to hate. It supports division among Americans in geography, race, education, industry and rural lifestyles. To keep the flag reminds Americans of their differences and how these differences almost led to the demise of our country. But then again, it is important that we remember history so that we do not repeat it.

Answer 5

no, but most people of hate fly the flag.

Answer 6

No... it's merely that hateful southern people display the stupid rag, showing their ignorance and intolerance for people from the northern states. It's a display of their arrogance is all.

Answer 7

no i don't think it draws people into hate. people draw people into hate.

Answer 8

No, but I think I gives the perception of a racist person.