Confederate Flag Redux

I’ve seen a number of people blathering about the Confederate flag and how they love it, and how they want to represent it as symbolizing honor. Frankly, that is total bullshit. That flag was flown by people who fired on American troops and started a war over slavery. Spare me all your bullshit about how “the war was not about slavery”. It was exactly about slavery – several of the states trying to secede said that very explicitly, and it was also stated explicitly at the convention where they organized a government for the Confederacy. Genuine American soldiers were killed by people flying that flag. It is the symbol of no less than treason against this country. People flying that flag enslaved other human beings, brutalized them, and killed them. After the war, people flying that flag worked to deny equal rights to black Americans, oppressed them, and lynched them often for no more than wanting to be treated like a decent human being. There is no honor represented by the Confederate flag. There were brave soldiers who fought under that flag, but then there were brave German soldiers who fought under the Nazi flag, and brave Japanese soldiers who fought under their flag. Their bravery does not in any way offset the utter disgrace of the cause for which they fought, nor does it offset the evils of the regimes that they fought on behalf of. If you want to fly the Confederate flag, do it. It serves to show decent Americans who the traitors and bigots in our midst are.