Haha, I suppose I haven’t!

We all know what the Confederate Flag stands for but remember that in 1967 some Black Panthers created a coalition with the Young Patriots (white lower class group) and used the flag to further their cause together.

This group of Black Panther members fought for equality but the problem was they saw not all white people were treated equally. So they decided to fight for the white lower class too.

Maybe they don’t understand where the flag really comes from. Maybe they have a story to tell.

There’s a decent amount of southerners that bought into the idea pushed in the 20th century that the flag was emblematic of southern pride instead of emblematic of racism.

Modern conversation about the US has generalized half of the country as poor, racist, mean, idiots who are stuck in the past. It’s gone so far that people have started to describe impovershed areas worldwide as the global south.

While I would never choose to rally under a racist symbol because of it, I can understand wanting a shorthand way to show pride for the place you are from if you feel like public opinion just labels it as a backwards shitpile by default.

And if modern discourse is so wrong about how much of a shithole where you live or where you are from is, maybe they’re wrong about this symbol meaning racism too? Spoiler: they aren’t wrong about that, but that is the general thought path.

Similar sort of thing that drove a concerning amount of young men towards shitheads like Andrew Tate while the news media was going apeshit with articles about how all men needed to be taught not to rape.

People can be both racist and gay.