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Originally Posted by 4X4
I don't know why people waste their time trying to figure out if someone else is being racist. If I saw a confederate license plate I'd figure that the guy loved Dukes of Hazzard. If I saw it on a flagpole, I'd figure the guy was indeed from the southern US.
I don't buy this crap that people are sporting a confederate flag because they're out of the closet black haters.
It seems to be the latest thing to take childhood nostalgia and display it. I saw a Ford SUV last week that had the Ford logo covered by a batman sticker. There's transformers suff everywhere. I've seen it on cars, hell, I saw some guy wearing a transformers belt with a shirt and tie.
I think people need to stop trying to find negative meaning in stuff.
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So what you're saying is that its a waste of time to assume someone with a Confederate flag is being racist, but assuming he's Dukes of Hazard fan is not? Why is one assumption a waste of time and the other not?
Ignoring possible negative connotations of symbols seems overly naive to me. If I see a guy with a Third Reich flag, I'm going to assume he's racist, not that he's a history buff that studies 1940s Germany or a fan of WWII movies.