Confederate flag to be removed from South Carolina capitol

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There was a brief period of time for a few years just recently where it was quite fashionable for people to authoritatively point out to the less well informed, "The Civil War was not about slavery!  It was an economic war!"  As startling as this was to those of us who thought the war was about slavery, it started to gain traction, probably based on its paradoxical nature.  Maybe someone on FOX News said it, and it took on a life of it's own.  The other diversion was to claim that it was about state's rights, which was also true.  But the fact remains that the civil war was about slavery, both the economics of free slave labor, and southern states deciding that one race had the right to enslave another.

It doesn't make any difference what percentage of the US supports the Confederate flag, or whether the Nazi flag is more offensive.  The Confederate flag represents a would be country that was founded on the right to enslave black people.  The South didn't send blacks to gas chambers, but lah dee dah.  It wanted to institutionalize human slavery, and that's offensive enough to warrant outright scorn, as well as scorn for those who still celebrate the symbol that stood for it.

Even South Carolina is beginning to recognize that.  Imagine a separate western country today that happily imported slaves from Africa to increase it's economic output.  The idea is so repugnant to most people today it's no longer seen as a glorious attempt at creating a slave owning society between Mexico and the United States.  Not only should its symbol be removed from government buildings; It should also be publically burned, and trampled, and the remnants put on display in a holocaust museum.