American confederate flag

[SlimTrae]

Also it's fucking typical for the news to turn their focus from "Aww what a horrible tragedy, those poor families" and "What strength, peace, and community Charleston and the whole of South Carolina has shown in the face of this horrible event!" to ...."Hey! Look at that flag! It's EEEEEVIL!!!!!"


Fucking news twats....all about the ratings never about results.


I think they were very disappointed that there were no riots and that professional protesters were told to "go home"

I actually agree. Mainstream media is helping to detract by injecting the confederate flag. I am no fan of it, but can't see how that caused that sad soul to do what he did.
I'm at the Amtrak station right now...so I'm forced to watch CNN...they are acting as if this makes Donald Trump qualified....he is responding to the (tough) question, which is the flag.
Wrong question and CNN is straight up in the wrong.

[El Kabong]

It's not just CNN, it's everywhere....and guess what's next?


GUN CONTROL!!!



For fucks sake....the media are just ratings addicts and they want to play to the folks who know about HALF of a thing, not the entirety of a thing, but just sort of grasp half an idea, but are willing to buy into it 100% and defend their stance to the death! Prove them absolutely 100% wrong, and they'll double down on their view even harder!

[Beanflicker]

I'd love to see a flag that doesn't carry with it some unfortunate past. It's a symbol, and like George Carlin said, "I leave symbols for the symbol-minded."

It's amazing that after this massacre, THIS is what people are upset about. It's a symbol, like a word. It has absolutely no meaning other than what you want it to mean. It's the ideas and views they should be worried about. Some people are racist, they don't like people of other races and they treat other races like crap - how is banning the confederate flag or the N-word going to change that? They're still going to feel the same way.