Discussion: Ex-Dem Rep: Attacks On Confederate Flag License Plates Are Unfair, Divisive

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Maybe something for the Fort Hood shooter?

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I just googled “cooter” to refresh my memory of what he looked like way back then (never watched the show) and the urban dictionary definition caught my eye.

I’m wondering if the creators of his character were aware of this.

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Jones also stressed that context must be considered and that when the
Confederate flag is seen “on a license plates (sic), it is people
honoring their ancestors.”

Yep. Their racist, separatist ancestors.

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Let me just see if I follow his argument here.

He believes that the Confederate flag is a personal, positive symbol of the soldiers of the Confederacy, and it’s important to fly this symbol of those soldiers in order to commemorate our ancestors. But also, concurrently, we all have to bury the past.

Do I have that right?

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Unfortunately most of the people yammering about this case, including the media, are focusing on the Confederate angle. If you read Denniston’s coverage of oral arguments over at SCOTUSblog, you’ll see that the questions they were asking had almost nothing to do with the Confederate flag per se – it was about the boundaries between government speech and individual speech. The specific thing that was deemed “offensive” by the state could have been practically anything.

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According to several entries, the definition you mention has come about in recent year so no the show creators were not aware of it. However, I don’t think I will be looking at the character in the same way again.

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Wouldn’t it be more in keeping with the whole “Freedom” thing to argue that you shouldn’t have to register your car at all? The whole “plate decoration” thing seems beside the point.

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MLK once called Cooter an ass.
That has as much legitimacy as the proclamation that MLK would support a flag that symbolizes support for pro-slavery.

If your argument isn’t strong enough without you bringing up what a deceased person would have done, then maybe you shouldn’t use it. Leave MLK out of this.

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I suspect if Dr King were in favor, somehow, someway, it would be only so he could tell who the racists a-holes were merely by glancing at their vehicles.

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well said
Well said
WELL SAID.

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You guys killed him so you could say stupid shit like this right?

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Yeah… I read a little further and “Redneck” was an older synonym. Most likely where “Cooter” came from.

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this is brilliant.

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No, slavery really was a southern sin. They’re the motherfuckers went to war with the federal government for the right to keep them. Don’t put that shit on the rest of us, asshole.

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What movement paid for that? I can’t really read it. Did you look up that movement? Are they saying they’ll “overcome” the oppression of southern confederates?

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I just pulled it off the internet. Lemme go see.

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It’s remarkable how convoluted people’s arguments are when they’re completely wrong about a thing.

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One more example of the hideous claiming of Civil Rights leaders for the very people they fought against.

And these guys are “outraged” when Dick Durbin says that the GOP has sent Loretta Lynch’s nomination to the back of the bus?

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Oh, I know. I actually don’t like the idea of the government deciding what is acceptable speech, even on a license plate.

The simplest thing, seems to me, would be for the states to get out of the vanity license plate business altogether.

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