Virginia campus removes Confederate flags

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29. Understand this

I am not in any way taking up for this flag. Thanks for the refresher on the early days of the KKK but you have to realize that not everybody in the South was a member. The vast majority were not.

What I am saying is that although this flag was used by KKK and others then, this was seen as a separate and extremist use of it by many Southerners who were very rah rah Southern history and defensive about losing the war. With the new wave of right wing extremists using it as their symbol these days there is no possible argument for the flag--it represents all that is racist and objectionable. Yes the flag needs to be retired and was in most places, long ago.

I just resent the idea that people think that the South was always as full of extremists as they want to think, just because of the flag.