• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Maybe Lynyrd Skynyrd shouldn’t have constantly used the Confederate Battle Flag and other Confederate imagery if they didn’t want to be lumped in with the racists.

    Just a thought.

    • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      It was bad, but mind the cultural context they it was widely considered the “southern” flag (by southern whites) which just happened to also have been used by the Confederacy. There was a century of pro-Confederate propaganda we were raised under, and we’ve only recently reckoned with that.

      A lot of those same people who flew it when they were kids decades ago denounce the thing today, thankfully.