Discussion: Poll Shows Charleston Shooting May Have Changed Minds On Confederate Flag

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Discussion for article #241225

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“Oh, that old thing? We never really liked it anyway…”

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The South shall rise again…but we’re not still eating THOSE grapes.

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Kind of like how 30 seconds after Allied troops entered Germany, it turned out that nobody had been a willing member of the Nazi party.

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Hell there weren’t even ANY Nazis.

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People lie to themselves all the time. Insecure folks tend to do it a lot more, though.

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Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

From the Song of Solomon.

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I can believe this…they didn’t have a strong emotional attachment to the flag, they just enjoyed the fact that it was a source of antagonism for Black people, and a symbol of white supremacy, a simple reminder to keep the darkies in order.

I can totally believe the results of this poll

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That reminds me how much Italians really hated Mussolini…

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Yes. I never liked the flag. I just like crapping on black people.

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The Little Foxes?

Or Our Vines Have Tender Grapes?

The first, of course, is Bette Davis (playing Tallulah Bankhead) in Lillian Hellman’s story about venal Sourtherners.

The second is Edward G. Robinson and Margaret O’Brien in a sweet and wonderful story of Norwegian-American farmers in Wisconsin. It’s also from a book, by George Victor Martin, and definitely worth watching.

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Well, now I wish I hadn’t deleted it. I’ve never seen the Robinson/O’Brien one.

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Well, you know, I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt.

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Of course they COULD have compromised…

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It’s a very good movie—warm and not too gooey.

But then, Eddie G couldn’t turn in a bad performance.
He should have won at least two Oscars—for Key Largo and for The Sea Wolf—but he never did.

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But they still love this:

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Georgia, apparently, still favors the artificial version.

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This is just an Aesop for the masses.

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The results of this poll are akin to 80% of TPM poll respondents saying their opinions on gay marital rights haven’t changed in the last decade.