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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by caymanjim on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:36PM (#23717105)
It's also not the flag of the Confederacy (as in the nation). No one uses that. What everyone uses is the Confederate Battle Flag, which is specifically the flag of the army of secessionists. There's no rational argument that it represents Southern culture.
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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:49PM (#23717255)
Interesting, I didn't know that there were multiple flags for the CSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_State.... It seems that the second and third did incorporate the battle flag as part of the design.

Wouldn't surprise me to see these people switch to one of the other, lesser-known variants to work around the ban.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by user982 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:55PM (#23717312)
> Wouldn't surprise me to see these people switch to one of the other, lesser-known variants to work around the ban.

That's exactly what Georgia did. In 1956 they added the Confederate Battle Flag to their state flag in support of white supremacy and segregation, and in 2003 switched it for the Confederate Stars and Bars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by spaced-out on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:35PM (#23719298)
Here's a fun quote from the article about the design of the second flag

>On April 23, 1863, the Savannah Morning News editor William Tappan Thompson, with assistance from William Ross Postell, a Confederate blockade runner, published an editorial championing a design featuring the battle flag on a white background he referred to later as "The White Man's Flag."[6] In explaining the white background, Thompson wrote, "As a people we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause."

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