Raising this spergtastic thread from the dead, as I recently had a debate with a friend's mom over the use of the Confederate flag. She believes that the Confederate flag was used to FREE the slaves rather than to preserve the institution of slavery, that the history of the flag was warped in the 1960's during the Civil Rights Movement by "dem ebil libtardz", and that there are not racist conotations to the Confederate flag. She also thinks that if the Confederate flag is no longer going to be raised in public, that the American flag will be taken down and that only ISIS flags will be flying around and America will be doomed (which is a load of bullshit in of itself, especially considering the fact that all she is an extreme Conservative/Republican that only watches Fox News and is actually pretty racist as fuck (against black people, Mexicans, and Muslims) and tries to shove her views down everyone's throats). My friend's much more moderate though.