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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFL: GOP Lawmaker Filed Confederate Flag Bill
Florida state Sen. Jay Collins (R) said that his office had accidentally filed legislation that would have allowed the Confederate flag to be flown outside government buildings, with a spokesperson calling it a filing made in error.
https://politicalwire.com/2023/03/16/gop-lawmaker-filed-confederate-flag-bill/
mercuryblues
(14,521 posts)marmar
(77,047 posts)cutroot
(873 posts)Its a complicated process
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)forbidding the Confederate flag. It's only a symbol of treason.
onenote
(42,531 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)That's actually scary.
Silent3
(15,130 posts)Nothing scary here, just standard First Amendment protection.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)to be on open display?
The Swastika isn't allowed in Germany.
Silent3
(15,130 posts)For better or worse, we don't have hate speech restrictions in the US either.
Not that we've been entirely consistent about it, but generally speaking the US has stronger free speech protections than many other countries. If you tried to pass a law banning display of the Confederate flag by individual citizens it would never survive a court challenge, even with a much more liberal SCOTUS than we have today.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)onenote
(42,531 posts)They were openly displaying the flag of North Vietnam, a country with which we were actively engaged in hostilities at the time.
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/protestors-against-the-vietnam-war-hold-a-vietnamese-flag-in-new-york-picture-id184450271?s=594x594
In case you were wondering -- I don't think protesting the Vietnam War was treasonous, and I don't think displaying the Vietnam flag could or should have been barred. And I don't think displaying the Confederate flag (or images of the Confederate flag, more than 150 years after the end of the war is treasonous or subject to government imposed restrictions.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)I think the Confederate flag is somehow very different. Even if protected by the First Amendment.
I concede that in this country it's allowed under the First Amendment. But I still think it's wrong.
onenote
(42,531 posts)Supporting the "enemy" is arguably the textbook definition of treason.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)didn't make it so.
onenote
(42,531 posts)And just as it wasn't treason to wave the flag of a current enemy with whom we were then at war, it isn't treason to display the flag from a war that ended 150 years ago.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)It is a symbol of post-war white supremacy, pushed by the Daughters of the Confederacy in their 19th century revivalism of The Lost Cause. For varying reasons, they zeroed in on a particular version flown by the Confederate navy for a time, and the Tennessee militias.
It is as important distinction, and these fascist loony-tunes of today think they are waving around "the Flag of the Confederacy", when all they're doing is showing off their own ignorance of the thing they pretend to stand for.
I was merely responding using the terminology of the post I was responding to, not denying other symbolic baggage of the Confederate flag.
And yes, I'm well aware that the Confederate battle flag that we generally see is not the Confederate national flag -- but they are all symbols of treason and white supremacy. Those meanings are hardly mutually exclusive.
MOMFUDSKI
(5,410 posts)hip boots for this tripe.
sakabatou
(42,134 posts)GenThePerservering
(1,768 posts)"in error" my backside.