Tom Petty on Past Confederate Flag Use: 'It Was Downright Stupid' -- "when they wave that flag, they aren't stopping to think how it looks to a black person. .... It's like how a swastika looks to a Jewish person."

What a pathetic response. Can't even take responsibility for what you said.

Not at all. Since you wanna name call now, fine. what a whiny ass and pedantic one by you, as expected. I didn't delve into specifics because they all represent the same damn thing. But, like the rest of these white supremacists and coons, instead of addressing the issue, you want to act like a 5 year old and cry about trivial alleged misnomers.

The fact of the matter is that symbols and words change meaning all the time....over the course of time.

But that doesn't apply to this flag, nor to the people who fly it. Look up the definition of HERITAGE. People take pride in what it represents. There's no argument. So stop trying to play childish word games.

This is why people flew it in the 60's in direct opposition to civil rights, and this is why people chose to put Robert E. Lee day on MLK day. I've stated this, but you seem to have selective reading.

I also stated that the "League of the South" are the prime example of the people that support it, and you sound exactly like one of them. Go look at the garbage on their Facebook page.

The Democratic party is a good example of this. They were once representative of the racism and segregation laws that people find so abhorrent. But their symbols and what the word Democrat means, has changed.

No, that's a horrible example/ analogy. And an outright stupid one. There's no comparison. That's a goddamn political group. Not a symbol. Why is this so hard for you to understand? Political groups change naturally over the course society to accommodate their constituents needs. A symbol made on the basis of human trafficking and treason that's flown for that heritage/ reason alone, does not.

So simply implying that a symbol can never change what it represents because it is forever tied to the original meaning of it's creation, is logically faulty.

No it isn't. You have absolutely no clue as to anything you're talking about, and you're the prime example of why this country is going to garbage.

You're sitting here and making excuses for supporting a bigot emblem, and you're trying to warp things to fit your narrow perspective.

As I said before.. if you wanna be a bigot, and fly bigot flags, go ahead. It's your right.

But at least have the stones to fess up to it when someone calls you out on it.

Fuck off.

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