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Originally Posted by 4X4
^^ Hilarious. A couple of black dudes down in Carolina don't give a rat's ass about it, but a bunch of white dudes up here in Alberta are spending a bunch of time trying to read deeper into it. I'm ever so surprised.
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It takes me about a second to read deeper into it -- a guy in Alberta who has likely never even been to North Carolina running a Confederate flag on his pickup truck is saying something.
Some dudes in North Carolina might actually have a connection to the flag. Maybe their great-great-grandpappy was in the Civil War. Maybe they are "proud" of being southerners or maybe their dad had the flag in the living room for all I know.
For someone in Alberta, it really is no different than wearing Che Guevara t-shirts (like Habernac said above) -- they don't know anything about it, they don't "live" it, they weren't affected by it, but they are trying to make some goofy statement. For a Che Guevara shirt, the statement seems to be "I'm a rebel because I think this guy was cool, now excuse me while I go to my job so I can pay my iPhone bill and buy an 8 dollar pint at the Ship".
The rebel flag on the pickup truck means "I'm a rebel because I agree with what these folks in the south were fighting for, and I'm proud to be a redneck, now excuse me while I go to my job so I can pay for this pickup truck that I don't need and can't afford".