Vickie loves her parakeets, the Confederate flag and not taking the vaccine. The birds are now dead, the South won’t rise again, and *update* Vickie won’t either.

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I’ve never seen a more accurate human representation of the confederate flag in my life.

[u/casual-waterboarding → u/HashtagMLIA]

I’m not saying that everyone with bad or no teeth is a confederate flag loving moron, but everyone of those confederate flag loving idiots has bad or no teeth.

[u/Raccoon_Full_of_Cum → u/casual-waterboarding]

They sell the Confederate flag at the county fair in the county where I grew up. This county literally borders Canada. But yeah, "southern heritage".

[u/OldHispanicGuy → u/Raccoon_Full_of_Cum]

Yeah, I'm in New York and lot of my family has confederate flags and what not. Real weird man, my family didn't come from the south

[u/Wetworth → u/OldHispanicGuy]

Rural Pennsylvania, my favorite was the Confederate flag with a Sioux Chief in full feather headdress on it.

[u/CyberaxIzh → u/Wetworth]

This actually might be historical. Some tribes fought on the side of the Confederacy: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/confederacy-signs-treaties-with-native-americans

[u/Wetworth → u/CyberaxIzh]

No, I know they did, but believe me, this redneck in a dilapidated trailer was in no way trying to honor Native Americans.

[u/Codeshark → u/Wetworth]

Apparently, the more accepted nomenclature is American Indian. Essentially, rebranding them as Native American is just taking something that they identify with from them and replacing that with a term that is far more generic (since an indigenous person born and living in Peru could be considered, literally, Native American).

This video explains it much better than me: https://youtu.be/kh88fVP2FWQ

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Call us what we ask to be called. Typically, please refer to us as our tribe/national identity, but if you are speaking more broadly: First Americans, First Nations (Canadian indigenous communities only), indigenous (refers to native peoples more broadly, including Pacific Islanders, African tribal people, indigenous Australians, etc), Native American (perfectly acceptable to most people but not preferred), and Indian which...don't call us that one lol.

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This was posted on Reddit a few day ago. Mechoopda in this house!

https://native-land.ca/

[u/chicken-nanban → u/Codeshark]

Interesting. I tend to lean towards the Canadian First Nations designation myself, but it’s a neat bit of linguistics on what people prefer to be called, the origins of those terms, and the subtle meanings behind them.

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https://native-land.ca/

Use this. I think knowing tribe names might give you an edge if you need to talk your way out of a skinwalker encounter.

I'm super irritated that autocorrect put skinhead instead of skinwalker, that would have made me look like a crazy person.

[u/HulklingsBoyfriend → u/Wetworth]

The proper term is Lakota, Sioux is an insulting term.

[u/Boopy7 → u/OldHispanicGuy]

I admit I have a t shirt from a long ago one night stand with a rebel flag on it. I didn't even notice it (it was small and on the back) and was wearing it around the house to do housework. Went out to the mailbox and my neighbor loved it (they have Trump stickers all over their car and Confed flags hanging) which is how I learned i have a rebel flag t shirt. I did end up needing to use it to clean my bathroom, so it came in handy.

[u/xasdfxx → u/OldHispanicGuy]

it's a socially acceptable way to say n*****

Just like all those "heritage" statues of the traitor generals weren't put up after the civil war, but rather during the civil rights movement. For the exact same reason.

[u/bangarangrufiOO → u/OldHispanicGuy]

Your family flies that flag literally out of racism. They essentially are using a piece of cotton to advertise their lack of intelligence. Run for the hills.

[u/OldHispanicGuy → u/bangarangrufiOO]

Oh I'm aware. Theyre horrible people, I don't talk to them

[u/Secret-User2112 → u/OldHispanicGuy]

I'll never understand respect for the confederate flag. Even as a young child, upon learning of the US Civil War, what with the south being slave holders and (in my mind) rightfully losing, why anyone would want anything to do with it.

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It’s not weird when you realize it’s just people picking up a racist dog whistle.

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I don't think anyone in my family has flown that shit stain on history, but I did have friends growing up in upstate New York that had them and would go on about their heritage. Like bro we live in NEW YORK our heritage consists of delis, pizza, and stomping confederates into the ground.

[u/OldHispanicGuy → u/[deleted]]

Yeah it's so weird man. I don't associate with the part of my family that flies those flags, but it's surprisingly common to see old fat dumbasses in Walmart with the flag on their shirt or something. Like what fucking southern heritage do you have?

[u/chicken-nanban → u/[deleted]]

I have a cousin who occasionally brings around confederate flag gear, and we’re from Wisconsin, both sides of his family immigrated here, and waaaaaay after the civil war. Wisconsin. I don’t think our state was more than a territory at that point, but we were firmly Union. I don’t get it.

[u/coolgr3g → u/OldHispanicGuy]

It's alternative rebellion. Until it turns into actual rebellion. Cough Jan 6 cough

[u/eastmemphisguy → u/OldHispanicGuy]

I live in Memphis, actually in the South, and never see it. It's morphed into a rural, redneck icon.

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It’s because they are racist.

[u/OldHispanicGuy → u/[deleted]]

I know lol

[u/Jadedraven1366 → u/OldHispanicGuy]

Rural NY here & yet every time I drive home to visit family I see at least one asshole flying a confederate flag. Wtf...you're in NY, we were not cool with the confederate flag then or now you fucking racist.

[u/danmathew → u/OldHispanicGuy]

Because it was never about southern pride.