Raw Story: Tahoma High School in Maple Valley, WA suspended two 16-year-old boys for wearing Confederate flags to school. According to Seattle’s KIRO Channel 7, school officials said the boys were wearing the secessionist flags in protest of a classmate’s choice to wear a rainbow flag in celebration of LGBT Pride month.
One of the two students — known only a “Grady” — told KOMO that he was just wearing the rebel flag to honor his southern heritage.
Which is of course mostly.. slavery.
Today however conservatives fly the confederate flag to symbolize their opposition pretty much all the American ideals, equality, multiculturalism, tolerance, upward mobility due process, devotion to the constitution, and democracy. They're hostile to all of it.
So we're actually grateful when they chose to wear the symbol of their betrayals, the celebration of their treason, their hatred of the United States on their sleeve (or chest). That way we can know who they are.
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