Comment on California city bans non-government flags, angering LGBTQ groups
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months agoThose are battle flags. That isn’t the confederate flag. At least looking at the photos those are just battle flags. Which are less appropriate than flying the flag for a government.
My grandma had a battle flag but she never displayed it. It’s because it’s the battle flag her grandpa had in the civil war. Wish someone had the sense to donate it to a museum but I suspect it was disposed of.
People often confuse the battle flag with the confederate flag. Battle flags were to identify units on the battlefield.
HogsTooth@lemmy.world 3 months ago
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That is accurate.
horsey@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Why would that matter and why would a state house be flying a confederate battle flag either?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s a historical tradition. They’ve done it for a very long time. It’s to honor their state citizens who died in the war.
I think people don’t get, after the war it was about reconciliation.
The battle flag grew to represent anti-authority. That’s why it became part of the image of the southern outlaw.
I see no need to fly it but then again I live in Oregon. We had no ties to the confederacy. I find it an odd relic myself.
horsey@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Is that really what you believe? That they would fly the flag of their failed rebellious nation for reconciliation and not continued defiance? Wouldn’t showing full support for the US as a nation be more of a show of unity?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Considering it’s documented in history. Yes.
It was a show of unity to respect the dead confederate soldiers but push the leadership out. That’s what happened.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 3 months ago
colloquial - used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary
It is the confederate flag.