Which is worse and why, the Nazi flag or the Confederate flag?

Answer 1

Any thing that 'symbolizes' racism and prejudice SUCKS!
And since both presenting the same horse sh111t, I'll say both flag should be burned on daily basis to 'symbolize' freedom and death to racial crap.

ADD: To those one who don't take their time to be rational OR may be THEY'RE plain stupid and racist, for, my response does not suit them!
I'm well aware of the history of these flags but Confederate flag seems to has changed its meaning through the time, therefore i have always seen the confederate flag associated with racism or in possession of racist people, also on many occasion along with Nazi flag, side by side!!!
NOW, you morons who thumbing me down have an answer for this? OR you're just too busy with your racial agenda!!

Answer 2

Make it a point to visit Ol Miss in Oxford MS and ask any black person you see this same question. The Confederate flag is a symbol of heritage not hate. Only those who don't understand unjustly hate.

Did you know that between 60,000 and 93,000 black soldiers (both free and slaves) fought for the Confederate side, and that the Emancipation Proclamation didn't come into affect until a year after the war started.

The Emancipation Proclamation didn't abolish slavery and wasn't put into affect to accomplish this (the 13th Amendment abolished slavery); instead the goal was to weaken the rebelion. I'll even give you a quote from Abraham Lincoln.

"I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." ... My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."

Now I don't want you to get the wrong idea, I don't and never have condoned slavery. It is pure evil. I did this so you have a broader understanding of the origins of the Civil War and the true meaning of the Confederate flag, it is purely a symbol of heritage regardless of what extremist groups do with it.

To answer your question I think that the Nazi flag is much worse because it symbolizes a regime of hate, torture, and genocide.

Answer 3

It's unfortunate that the Confederate flag has either been used as a racist symbol or perceived as one. I can't say for certain that Rednecks use it as a racist symbol (because I'm not a redneck), but I do know that the cause of the Civil War was not mainly due to slavery. The war was 90% started by the issue of States' Rights. Slavery falls under this umbrella, but you are ignorant to think that slavery is THE main reason why the Civil War took place.

If you can take anything positive from the Confederate flag (which I personally think is used a silly source of Southern pride), it shows opposition to a Federal Gov't that is getting dangerously large and too powerful. Hmmm.... that sounds like what liberals are pushing today...

You sound like you play the race card a lot. How sad.

Answer 4

That's an easy one. The Nazi flag. There were very good reasons for the Southern states to remain independent, though they were slave states. But the South was not engaging in anything like mass genocide just to rid itself of a race of people and take all that they had. I am not defending slavery, or the rationalization of secession because of states rights. It was just a much more gray issue at that time.

In the beginning the Nazi flag was not a bad symbol either, but as the times went on and the Nazis enforced more and more laws that in hindsight were horrible, it became a universal symbol for horror. I don't think you can at all say that about the Conferderate flag.

Answer 5

They had a state election asking the Mississippi people if they wanted to change the State Confederate Flag in MS State Flag which is the flag flying and they have more African Americans in MS. than they do white people and they did not want to change it. A older black man said that was that the South fought on and they didn't want it changed. The Confederate Flag still flies on the Capitol. How about them apples.

Answer 6

Nazi!

Both take a symbol that used to mean something good & transformed it to mean something evil, but not only were the Nazis more evil than even the KKK, but the Nazis more thoroughly transformed the meaning of the swastika from a Sanskrit symbol meaning well being to a Nazi symbol evoking the image of the millions slaughtered under Nazi rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

The confederate flag still means "Southern unity" to many. While I am troubled by anybody who displays the confederate flag, it is not because I assume they are racists, but because I feel the problably minimize the horror of racism because they are willing to display a symbol that carries such an evil meaning to many people!

Answer 7

The Confederate flag only stands for the South.

Slavery wasn't even an issue of the Civil War until AFTER the war started.

Look it up.

Answer 8

The person choosing to carry either one as a sign of agreement with all either flag represents.

I don't like "my historical suffering is bigger than yours" debates. It means one must be rendered somehow less than the other, one must have less significance. The Nazi flag waved over genocide, but the Confederate flag flew over many a murdered slave. Between the two, the following groups were murdered:

Jews, Blacks, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, political protesters, Soviets, the French, the English, Native Americans, Whites, and so many others.

I would never, EVER, look at the ghost of a gassed Jewish child and a lynched Black child and tell one that their murder was somehow less horrendous. I would not tell the French soldier who died in a concentration camp that his death meant more or less than the Englishman who died next to him, and I wouldn't tell the homosexual man who died gasping for breath wearing an inverted pink triangle in a concentration camp that his murder meant less than anyone else's who died with him.

I will turn my back on anyone carrying either of those flags in support of what they meant. I will not attend the parade. I will go to my local synagogue and fly the American flag while helping people in, even though I'm not a member of any Judeo-Christian or Islamic denomination of any kind. I will fly my flag right next to anyone bigots try to persecute, and I will fly my flag in front of any new group subjected to prejudice (American Muslims, for example). I will fly my flag if anyone tries to hurt the people flying the offensive flags, though, because this is America. I'll fly my flag as I suggest we all go somewhere else, because I don't have time to give them an audience.

Answer 9

The Nazi flag most definitely.

Answer 10

/Picturing displaying either flag in front of my house...

I'm figuring the Nazi flag would provoke a more visceral response from my neighbors (rocks, pitchforks, torches) than would the confederate flag. Most likely because if I flew the latter, they'd probably assume I was a Lynard Skynard fan or something like that.

Mind you, I have taken to fly Bonnie Blue in lieu of the American Flag on national/state holidays. An homage to states' rights when asked.

Answer 11

The Nazi flag because it represent the extermination of millions of one race of people. The Confederate flag isnt bad at all it represents the states rights which the south fought for and now many Americans fight for today. If you take it to mean something else thats your problem I love the idea of the confederacy which truly meant states could operated automus of the Federal government except in matters of national defense and alike.