[email protected]English • 7 months ago

Grand Ole Opry in Glasgow votes to ban use of Confederate flag

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Grand Ole Opry in Glasgow votes to ban use of Confederate flag

[email protected]English • 7 months ago

Members of Glasgow’s Grand Ole Opry country music club narrowly voted to ban the controversial emblem.

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Queen HawlSera
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1•7 months ago
And for many of us who grew up before Dylann Roof sparked the bans… that flag just meant “of the South”

Nothing more or less, by demonizing it it looks like you’re demonizing us and demanding you thank us for it.
- Alien Nathan Edward
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  you can be wrong about whatever you choose to be wrong about, but that’s the flag of racist traitors. always has been, always will be.
  - Queen HawlSera
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    1•7 months ago
    No you labeled it that to scapegoat a people for ongoing racial issues.
    - Alien Nathan Edward
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      4•7 months ago
      no, it became a racist traitor flag when racists flew it during their failed attempt at treason

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