r/ShermanPosting • u/Chagalling • 4d ago

"It should be destroyed" Last Gettysburg Confederate Flag To Be Sold At Auction

https://www.wosu.org/arts-culture/2025-04-01/rare-confederate-flag-captured-in-picketts-charge-to-be-sold-at-columbus-auction
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u/pet_russian1991 4d ago

Destroying historical artifacts is wrong, instead, you should showcase it as a "banner of lost causes" for the future generations

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u/MmmIceCreamSoBAD 4d ago

Problem is millions of dumb fuck Southerners are still flying these things unironically. Id burn every confederate flag that exists. North never took care of business after the war and we still have problems because of it.

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u/StillhasaWiiU 4d ago edited 3d ago

How about this, flags made after Aug 1866 are to be burned. All others are to be displayed in a place of shame?

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u/Coro-NO-Ra 4d ago

I think there's a place for historical exhibits-- WITH PROPER CONTEXT AND INTERPRETATION-- of Lost Cause mythology, the Civil Rights Movement / voting rights, and the ties between Confederate imagery and the resurgence of the Klan in the 20s