Where's the like button when you need it? XD

I'm sorry. Just your comment got me to smile and laugh. And now I want to watch Modern Life~ So thank you :3

I say if that flag offends them because it's "racist" then they need to be educated

*hugs*always remember its YOUR life you have every right to fly that flag just as i have every right to fly the Russian Flag even on Independence Day as you said its just a piece of cloth, but i need a new Flag mines fading, its your Beliefs and no one can tell you otherwise you grew up with it i grew up with my Flag its yours and no one elses live your life as you and no matter what anyone says that flag is a part of you like a Child is a part of its Mother

I'm really sorry pup cause I know you better then anyone and I know you're not a bad person at all and people are getting upset over a flag....yes this flag has seen some bad things but hell so has the united states flag but this is YOUR home state flag and just like anything there is a good and bad thing about it but the fact of the matter is it's just a piece of cloth it didn't do anything bad...it's bad people who do bad things and claimed this piece of cloth as their symbol and just like columbine so many years ago people are blaming the wrong thing and it pisses me off cause it's so stupid you got people who are being overly sensitive and not focusing on the right thing to bitch about like don't bitch about videogames for making kids shoot up school blame the damn bullies who pushed them to the edge and focus on making better anti-bully programs or hell don't blame a flag for hatecrimes blame the dumbasses who do the hate crimes and I said to myself I'm not really interested in this political event but now seeing that it's hurting a great awesome wonderful person like you NOW it's my problem and I may have to commission you for a bars and stars themed art

Some of the people who commented were just plain rude saying you were wrong and your opinion wrong


on your post

and argued you. on YOUR own post

there's a thing of if you don't like it just ignore it, but apparently they couldn't ignore it and just had to insult you and yell at you...on your own post, it wasnt theirs to nag in the first place

That's a load of crock, it was a public posting and comments were allowed, if they didn't want criticism they could have either not posted it to avoid the shit or disabled comments. If you're going to get controversial don't expect everyone to suck up to you, expect people to be angry, expect them to fight back. That's how the internet works, and that's how the world works.

I totally read cock and had to read it like 3 times because i was like wow holy crap profanity xD
and I meant like. she said her 2 cents respectfully, and apologized to some people who were really offended, and even made this journal.


there was no need for people to completely bash her and threaten her, she didn't threaten anyone. I get yelling sure, I get people will be upset, whatever. But an opinion isn't hurting anyone. I get I'm too mellow to really "understand" whats so heated about a flag when there are worse things going on in society (like the whole cop deaths issue) or to understand why people can't just stay respectful and respect other opinions. she didn't force it onto anyone.

Hell I even got yelled for posting an opinion and asking that if someone argues it to just be respectful about it, feelings can get hurt that way.

Oh I knew it was coming either way. I wanted to share it and hear others views and options. Was doing ok until people started insulting. But I never meant to offend people over a flag. :/

it was extremely rude of them anyways

Like I told my father when he asked my opinion on it, I am very open minded about the whole thing.
Especially with everything going on in the world right now.
I am in the middle with it so I'm not either or.
I was born and raised In Georgia. I still live here too.

Like I tell anyone who brings it up, I have too much else to worry with in my own life than about a flag right now, lol, though I do understand the multiple views on it and respect everyone's views on it.

Personally the only way your going to offend me is if you poop on my foot. No seriously I don't offended by almost anything. A flag is a flag, it has a representation to something, me it represents a turning point in this country's history. I don't care what it stood for then and what people perceive it stand for now, to me it's a piece of American history. "Never forget the past, for those who do are doomed to repeat it" That quote right there unfortunately has been forgotten by many, even though I forgot who said it lol.
This is America and everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that's mine and you have yours. It does not make either of us right or wrong and many seem to forget that, it's what you do with that opinions that makes it right or wrong.

I am just going to say one thing... that might actually go into many things because I tend to rant but anyway here it is.

In this day and age with how people are being coddled and taught, it is nearly impossible to not offend someone for some stupid reason. Heck I honestly believe that if I went to someone and said that I am offended by the word potato then soon potatoes wouldn't be sold in stores or if they were they would not be called potatoes anymore.

People need to grow up when it comes to things they don't like or they are offended by because soon we will get to a day when we can't go outside without offending someone...

Okay I kinda went into a rant there, sorry about that

Just one question... did you live as an average african-american in the 50's down south? No? then I wouldn't expect you to be offended by something that calls to mind people getting lynched.

you wanna know what seeing the confederate flag calls to my mind?

Well first off I want to say that  CrystalOokamiWolf is in the low percentage of people that I have seen or met that liked the confederate flag that wasn't blind stinking drunk and talking worse than a sober (if you can find one sober) redneck. Just about everywhere I have seen that flag was at a gathering around trucks getting in mud, cars racing around and crap shot bars and the people there were drunk. Now if you want to know what calls lynching to my mind? Extremely pointed white hoods and burnt crosses in the yard.

And even if I was alive in the 50's I still probably wouldn't have hated that flag because that flag did nothing wrong, it was just used by hellspawn that had the nerve to call themselves people and they got their wretched stigma all over that poor cloth. Again though I say probably because I don't know how I would have been back then, but I do have some idea of how I would have been because I know my family history and I know what they been through and I have written records by a few of them.

Association is a strong tool.
In the 50's and 60's, the battle flag was revived in use and flown by those proudly who hated on African-Americans and held them down while beating them. What symbol was burned into your mind when that happened?

The Confederate Battle Flag.
The flag that was flown during battles for the rights of those who wanted secession for the USA and for "this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding States."


The flag represents a lot of pain and torment for a lot of people today and it is STILL being adopted by groups of hate.

Okay for one thing I have to say this.

Why do people in this post think it's totally okay to downright bash someone for their opinion? Like i totally just sat here and read people complaining about people being rude to you, then in the same breath turn around and talk as if anyone who is offended by this flag being just offended by the most simplest shit?

Let me tell you how that's bullshit.

Okay, it's totally okay for the flag to not affect you. It's totally okay for you to believe it's "just a piece of cloth". That's fine. But I'm honestly tired of everyone acting as if "oh, this thing doesn't bother me, so therefore it ISN'T a bother and other people should be okay with it" while sitting here getting butthurt whenever someone doesn't outright agree with them.

Of course if you're not black and you don't deal with racism, YOU WON'T BE BOTHERED BY RACIST PROPOGANDA. Duh. I mean...duh. I would've thought by now any other race would realize they won't automatically see or care about racist implications towards ANOTHER race. I mean seriously. That's like me going "it's totally okay to say 'cracker' because I'm not white....why are white people offended? It's just a word"

you don't live with it, you won't see how much it sucks, therefore you're unable to relate to it. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist holy crap. Stop acting as if people getting offended by hurtful things is just them being whiny and shit. How utterly backwards is that?

(and i'm using the word 'you' in the general sense in my post...not in a sense of talking directly about the OP)

It's not so easy to take away the racist and painful implications ANYTHING has. If I go around using a bat to beat and terrorize latino children, and I somehow live a hundred years and keep doing this, and get other people to adopt this method and it turns into this huge big thing that is eventually stopped, then of course whenever someone in that demographic sees someone carrying around a bat and acting the same way I did with it is going to have a problem.

Yes, it's a flag. Yes, many flags don't really have any other implications (and to say it's just a piece of cloth baffles me as flags represent a LOT of important things and to rip them of that symbolism and importance would be downright impossible, let's just say the american flag, the pride flag, and any other symbol people use is just a piece of cloth), but THIS flag does and just saying you're going to use it as this, or trying to imply that anyone should view it as just a piece of cloth is NOT going to happen. It's not.

It's the same exact thing people were saying about nazi symbolism. It's the same reason people get up in arms about auctions for those items. And people are using the same line of logic other people use to be able to continue to use racial slurs and other hurtful nonsense. "I use it for this, therefore somehow that negates any negative connatation behind it because everyone who now sees this thing will automatically associate MY meaning to it and not the hundreds of years of nonsense that went behind it. Because shut up."

If people are offended by it, they have EVERY right to be. (this bit is for your commentors). Just because YOU aren't doesn't mean the item is wholly unoffensive. And just as YOU are able to spout your opinion on the matter and not have someone belittle it or act as if your opinion is bullshit, then you shouldn't sit on your high horse acting like people are whining over spilled milk. Holy shit have some compassion.

Now I will say this. I don't think you did what you did to say "fuck you african americans and anyone else offended by this". So I don't think it's okay to be rude to you or call you out of your name. Your opinion should be just as valued as theirs. Whether I agree with you or not does not warrent any insult slinging at all. And I think when people fail to discuss things in an adult manner without slinging needless insults, that's the moment when you can COMPLETELY throw out their argument. They have nothing important to say at that point because they were unable to make their point without being needlessly rude to someone who wasn't directly rude to them.

I tend to not get political on art sites to avoid this very thing. And in doing such, I'm not going to share my views on flag whether I think it's appropriate to fly or not. I will not share my views if asked because I've had such terrible backlash with sharing my views and trying to have a civil, friendly debate with people that it has just turned me off entirely. Well, it's been years since I've shared it on art sites, but recently I stopped doing it on Facebook because it incited such a negative reaction.

I can't stop you from sharing beliefs on art sites, all I am saying is that it almost never ends very well. Even if you said that you agreed with it being taken down and that it should not be flown, the reactions would still have been as negative as the ones that you are receiving now, just from different people.

I'm sorry you've had such a negative experience, but don't let it get to you.