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In reply to the discussion: NY couple asks black passerby to agree Confederate flags not racist [View all]djg21
(1,803 posts)10. Dumbfuckistan
Upstate NY is largely rural, relatively poor and very red. One of the larger employers is the State prison system. A big issue is guns, and there are anti-SAFE Act (NY assault weapon and handgun legislation) everywhere.
There are a number of Confederate flags flying by me a few within a couple of miles and Im not too far north of Albany. But there is karma. A mosque and Islamic learning center just opened across the street from one home in my town with a Confederate flag flying out front.
Id love to post pictures and addresses of these houses somewhere. I presume that the dumbfucks flying these flags arent celebrating their Southern heritage.
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Who the fuck cares what it means to them?! It objectively is the battle flag
Dark n Stormy Knight
Oct 2017
#1
Raw Story ALWAYS provides an obvious link to the original story, they don't "steal" work of others.
George II
Oct 2017
#24
Wait, you first said that this isnt important enough to be a news story, now you say
Eliot Rosewater
Oct 2017
#26
I didn't see that anyone said it constituted a new story, that's why it's in...
George II
Oct 2017
#20
I don't really find it funny. It was an act of racist aggression to a child meant to intimidate.
SweetieD
Oct 2017
#12
I feel for the flag owner, I do. He sincerely needs that black person or any black person to
Eliot Rosewater
Oct 2017
#31