Thread: The Confederate Flag

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Here ya go!

The South does rock: Allman Brothers, Leonard Skynard, Limp Bizkit. But Billy Idol's a Brit, bud!! Come on wid it!

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Correct. They lost. Time for the losers to take down the racist flag and STFU.

Says the Brit! WTF is that? Better take down the Union Jack the origin of all slave trade in the Americas...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by sabang

If an individual wishes to wear the flag of a long defeated rebel cause, I suppose that is up to the individual. (At least in a free country- I couldn't see the Chinese being so tolerant of the Nationalist flag). But it does not belong in State flags, or being flown on state property. Doubly so because of it's historical association with slavery, and now racism.

But what about television shows that portray that cornpone lifestyle down south? Daisy May and her brothers gotta go?

That's taking it too far IMHO. There's nothing racist about that show.

Also sucks because some pretty shitty actors are now going to lose some of their residual income.

Let me throw my own two cents into this thread. That flag should not fly over any government buildings. Period. However banning the Dukes of Hazzard is going to far. Refusing to bake someone a cake with a confederate flag on it is going to far.

I hope when the dust settles things will calm down with regards to this type of PC bullshit.

My 2 cents bsnub...

^^ Nice meme but usual you are full of fail.

"To Learn Who Rules Over You' Viral Voltaire Quote Probably Originated with White Supremacists."


The following meme has been making the rounds of the internet for couple years now, but has gone extra-viral in the days since the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris:

Voltaire: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise" #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/uAK8KF3C6i
— Sam Sussex (@SamSussex) January 8, 2015

The meme pops up after any sort of outrage over a statement that pokes at perceived cultural pieties, be it Gary Oldman spitting on Hollywood or any questioning of the Federal Reserve or the Obama rodeo clown. It’s a common trope of comment sections, but occasionally surfaces in more mainstream discourse; Pat Buchanan used it just last week.
The quote is unanimously attributed to the French polymath Voltaire — who, in fairness, was an aphorism-spouting machine. The problem: there’s no record of Voltaire ever having said it. A Google search of the quote turns up absolutely nothing before 2012. (Smarter minds note the misattribution.) Twitter seems to have discovered it in May of that year.

The closest source to have been located is a 1993 text by white supremacist Kevin Alfred Strom entitled All America Must Know the Terror That is Upon Us. Strom was a co-founder of the West Virginia-based white supremacist organization National Vanguard; he later pled guilty to charges of possession of child pornography and served two years in prison.
Here’s the likely culprit from Strom’s book:



Even the sourcing on this is watery. Wikipedia lists the quote as misattributed to Voltaire and gives it to Strom. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Storm’s affiliations, one of the other sources is a Stormfront message board. There’s a Reddit thread to same effect; ditto a Yahoo! Answers thread. None, obviously, should be taken as authoritative.
Sure enough, the meme does have an anti-Semitic variation that popped up last summer during Israel’s military campaign in Gaza:

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -Voltaire #GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/k3yt6jzHNH
— Persia (ر) (@persiatx) August 13, 2014

As Thomas Jefferson once said, “Never trust quotes you find on the internet.”



?To Learn Who Rules Over You': Viral Voltaire Quote Probably Originated with White Supremacist | Mediaite

Oh, Booners . . .

flags aint racist people are, and liberals are some of the worst

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

flags aint racist people are

12 of the first 18 presidents were slave owners and the white house was staffed by slaves, so much for the freedom loving all men are created equal northern hypocrites. Even that fat bastard grant owned a blackie, Washington of course had plenty of them

Slaveholding Presidents

Originally Posted by panama hat

Oh, Booners . . .

What?

Are you having an epiphany? Realized those left wing whacked-out thoughts were all streamed by the Devil making you do it?

Originally Posted by panama hat

Oh, Booners . . .

I think you meant LTNPee.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by panama hat

Oh, Booners . . .

I think you meant LTNPee.

You moonbat whacked-out Libs are easily confused...

interesting film on the flag(s)

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

You moonbat whacked-out Libs are easily confused...

I think he was to preoccupied laughing at your stupidity to notice as you have been clowned on multiple threads since I returned from vacation.

Originally Posted by bsnub

"To Learn Who Rules Over You' Viral Voltaire Quote Probably Originated with White Supremacists."

So you disagree with the point of the quote as well? Regardless of who made the quote it stands on its merrit....you sir are the bigot, not I.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

You moonbat whacked-out Libs are easily confused...

I think he was to preoccupied laughing at your stupidity to notice as you have been clowned on multiple threads since I returned from vacation.

Never knew you left.

It's like a constant, endless repeating loop with your so-called 'dialog'...try to stay away longer next time?

^^ what a buffoon.

Do you understand how dangerous it is when you right wing nutbags push your lies? The quote was traced to a racist child molester.

People like you have no scruples. Sick fuck.

Voltaire was a child molester? the dirty bugger

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

Voltaire was a child molester? the dirty bugger

Heh...and Seattle has a Commie on their city council

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

interesting film on the flag(s)

No flag is important but mine. This was me and my flag back in the day...

Never knew Dylan was a red neck

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

Never knew Dylan was a red neck

Hibbing MN is well within Redneck Country

Good ol Southern gent, and his flag

Originally Posted by ltnt

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Correct. They lost. Time for the losers to take down the racist flag and STFU.

Says the Brit! WTF is that? Better take down the Union Jack the origin of all slave trade in the Americas...

Brit? Fuck me, you really do get EVERYTHING wrong.