American confederate flag

[El Kabong]

I see that Amazon.com has banned the Confederate flag....good for them, I don't need to see that symbol of hate while I'm buying my Che Guavera t-shirt, Mao bust, and copy of Mein Kampf!

Hmmm that's a pretty good point!

Che Guevera... what a shit head he was!

You can also buy swastika t-shirts, Stalin statuettes, books on eugenics, various serial killer knick knacks, and so on.....but THANK GOD that evil flag is gone

[TitoFan]

The U.S. has a flag, as does every other country in the world..... and the states have flags. Can't we leave it that and quit doing shit that is somehow offensive to other people? If you know it's going to be controversial and offensive to some.... why the f*ck do it? Don't we have enough real issues to deal with to also add this petty, unnecessary log to the fire?

I can see why Agent Smith wasn't too fond of humans in "The Matrix".

[El Kabong]

Offense is easily taken these days

[Gandalf]

For better or worse, freedom of expression and speech is paramount. That we seem to be doing away with it in the name of taste, political correctness, and control is a very sad thing. Everything is being dumbed down and nuance is being eradicated. A flag is a flag, get over it. Does it have history and connotations? Yep, but doesn't everything? I would like to ban fracking, but CNN rarely gives it the time of day. I guess there is little racial tension when it comes to destroying human habitat regardless of skin tone. It's funny how some things are so much more important than others.

[Beanflicker]

It's strange how this one incident - as bad as it was - suddenly makes people re-evaluate the confed flag. If it was such a blatant racist symbol, why is it only now - midway through 2015 - that people are taking extreme issue with it? It seems like just the typical phony outrage that is so popular in today's culture.

The American flag flew on slave ships. Slavery happened under the American flag, as did the numerous atrocities committed against the Natives. Why is that flag not also offensive?