06-25-2015, 03:52 PM
Don't try and make sense of this, JsMom.
If the Confederacy fought for slavery, then it was for the right to own another human being and use them as they saw fit.
If I understand current white supremacist thinking, they want to eliminate all non-whites (and various others as white is superior) and not own them.
If I understand racism, it is a hatred of a different race and not the desire to own the object of hatred.
I believe I am superior, in many ways, to . . . let's say MS or Aussie.
Does that make me a racist, a half-white supremacist or a combination of the two with a female pejorative tacked on for fun?
Unfortunately, today, if you don't see the Stars and Bars as anything but a symbol of white supremacy and racism, then you must be one or the other.
If the Confederacy fought for slavery, then it was for the right to own another human being and use them as they saw fit.
If I understand current white supremacist thinking, they want to eliminate all non-whites (and various others as white is superior) and not own them.
If I understand racism, it is a hatred of a different race and not the desire to own the object of hatred.
I believe I am superior, in many ways, to . . . let's say MS or Aussie.
Does that make me a racist, a half-white supremacist or a combination of the two with a female pejorative tacked on for fun?
Unfortunately, today, if you don't see the Stars and Bars as anything but a symbol of white supremacy and racism, then you must be one or the other.