Fever-Swamp Leftist at Salon: 'Let's make the Confederate flag a hate crime...'

The flag is a symbol, and no matter how odious it is to many, it can't be a "hate crime."

But hey, leftists are on a roll with this, so no surprise.

See Nick Bromell, at the mock-worthy Salon, "Let's make the Confederate flag a hate crime: It is the American swastika and we should recoil it from it in horror" (link goes to Memeorandum's referral):

The heritage these flags stand for was a bloody war initiated by the South. Those Southerners who fired the first shots to attack U.S. troops at Fort Sumter – just a mile or two from the church where Roof gunned down nine black worshippers – aimed not only to “defend” slavery, but to promote slavery’s spread across the nation, especially in the West. The defeat of the South was the defeat of the slavery system.

That defeat is still mourned by many sympathizers with the Confederate cause across the nation, who have somehow forgotten that the Lost Cause was the cause of slavery. To them, the Confederate flag is an innocent symbol, a symbol that honors the Confederate dead and preserves the memory of their gallantry and fighting spirit.

To black Americans, meanwhile, these flags send a clear, painful, and frightening message: You don’t belong here. By being here, you are in danger. This nation is not for you. It was no coincidence that those who opposed the civil rights movement for desegregation and integration across America began to resurrect the use of the flag in the 1950s and 1960s...

Well, of course "those who opposed the civil rights movement for desegregation and integration" were Democrats, although I'll bet that's not who this idiot has in mind.

As I always say, it's the Democrats who held slaves. It's the Democrats who launched the KKK and Jim Crow. It's the Democrats who filibustered civil rights legislation in the 1950s. And it's the Democrats who not only opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s but also raised the Confederate flag over the South Carolina statehouse.

Funny, but leftists never mention these facts. The Democrats are the party of racism and hatred. It's who they are. It's what they do.

When you make the flag a "hate crime," you're making the Democrat Party a hate crime, which it is.