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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by angry_octet on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:55PM (#23717315)
This is the Lost Cause revisionist history fallacy at work. It is an early analogue of the recent technique used by Pepes, the white power sign, Neo-Nazi '88' and '14' iconography, etc: giving an in-group meaning to an innocent number, phrase or image to give a superficial plausible deniability.

The Confederate flag is even more powerful because people have been convinced it has something to do with Southern (white) culture and Yankee oppression. Maybe they need a new symbol, that isn't intimitely tied to slavery.

https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/14-wor...

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by angry_octet on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:31AM (#23724858)
It's interesting to watch the votes oscillate. For a little while it plunged into grey obscurity as rascists and Confederate battle flag lovers each savaged with the little down triangle, but alas, not leaving a comment to explain which they were. Then back up, up, to dizzying heights of black text again, and now back down, down to the mediocre 1 point which doesn't do justice to its story.
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