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Please, tell me the context in which it's totally cool to fly the Confederate flag in your front lawn
Where did I say that?
It does seem like a pretty clear fact that people have different views of that flag than others. Is this incorrect?
Unfriending someone because they try to explain why that could be and their explanation isn’t what you want to hear is childish.
Treating any issue like your viewpoint is the only acceptable one and anyone who believes anything different is wrong and evil is such an ignorant, simplistic way to view the world.
As is putting words in someone’s mouth so you can feign outrage at something that you made up.
Go away, sea lion.
Decent argument
But now you're putting words in my mouth. I'm no longer friends with him because he wouldn't stop driving drunk. His dad died driving drunk and I wasn't gonna wait around to see the same thing happen with him, nor did I find his story about 'realizing that he actually hit a deer and not a person after checking the next day' anywhere near as funny as he and his family did. His entire family were alcoholics and his dad was the outlier to have died from it. There was no amount of debating, reasoning, or begging that ever got him to reconsider getting drunk after work and then driving home. So, after a decade, I finally gave up.
Another assumption. I absolutely listened to him try explaining why drinking till drunkenness and driving every night was okay. Including the fact that he'd been pulled over but the cops knew his family and let him go, so it must not be that big of a deal.
Having grown up in Texas, I was taught to be proud of our confederate heritage and how ridiculous the north was to have attacked us. I'd gone to civil war reenactments where they handed out confederate flags, one of which I kept pinned to my wall for nearly a decade. It wasn't until high school that I learned how upsetting it was for my black friends to know that I was willing to minimize the true meaning of the civil war and emancipation.
How does all this come together? It takes a special sort of stubborn to continue flying a Confederate flag after learning how shameful it is. The kind of stubborn that convinces someone to drive home drunk every single night.
But, back to you explaining to me how childish it is to unfriend someone for because they tried to explain something that I was done listening to. Since my viewpoint is that flying the Confederate flag is wrong and that driving drunk is a bad idea, please edify me with your mature arguments for why it's ignorant and simplistic to view the world in a way where drunk driving and flying the Confederate flag are wrong.