Saturday, September 27, 2008

Things that shouldn't be around anymore

There are quite a few thing that have long been expired any rational human being's mind.
The first on my list is Nazism. Let's face it- the idea of Nazism was never included in the ideology of a person graced with the gift of critical thinking. But even today, men and women all over the world march under a swastika banner and salute a man who has been dead for 63 years. In America, even! If anyone did that here during WWII, they would've been chased out of town. But we are becoming much too tolerant of intolerance (a nice little paradox) these days.

The Confederate Flag. Need I say more? The former Confederacy fell in 1865, but many throughout the South refuse to give this symbol a military funeral. "Heritage, not Hate!"has become the rallying cry of neo-confederates North and South, coming under increasing scrutiny due to possibly racist symbolism.
People seem to forget, the Confederacy came into existance to protect the "divine institution" of slavery. And even if all elements of racism were erased, there's still the issue of allegiance with the United States. How can you claim to be a patriotic American while flying the flag of a country whose entire existance was spent warring with America?

Well this took longer than I expected, so I'm going to end my post with these words of wisdom: The war is over.