This article discusses the troubling implications of censorship and the banning of symbols. This post also highlights the importance of maintaining the legal and practical right for people to criticize those who need to be criticized and to tell people things that they do not want to hear, yet need to be said.
Although I’m from the south, I used to think it would be better to leave the confederate flag in the museums (understanding that it caused many people to feel like we should still be in the era of slavery). I have never thought an individual’s right to display it should be curtailed, but I thought we should not choose to display it ourselves in order not to offend those who had some sort of PTSD about the issue.
Now, with slavery a distant historical fact of world-wide history that has been outlawed in the US for the lifetimes of our current population and because freedom of speech has fallen under such severe attack and because we have turned the world upside down to accommodate the mentally ill leftists and politically-correct censoring haters of freedom, I have reversed my opinion. I now fully support flying your confederate flag as long as you are not trying to lead a racist uprising against people that don’t look like you. I detest racism of any kind including the fascist/leftist racism that supports CRT&I, antisemitism, Nazi/white supremacy, and all other forms of hatred based upon the outward appearance of any group of people.
Deport Cuomo and install a confederate viceroy.
A nutless monkey would be a remarkable improvent compared to Cuomo.