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Originally posted by Rudey
Since I don't know I thought I would ask:

What is so endearing about this flag that even after its modern association with racism, that people want to remember the other things it is associated with?

I don't know enough so I thought maybe someone would know.

-Rudey

I think most of the time it's just because they want to be asses.

I could be wrong.

Anyway, I'm kind of torn on this issue. As much as I think the idea of a Confederate flag dress is TACKY, I don't think schools should have the right to enforce excessive controls on clothing. However, that raises a couple more issues here: Does a school's dress code carry over to extracurricular-type events, like the Prom? (Should Prom dress codes be more or less strict than normal school day dress codes?) And is the Confederate flag dress overtly racist enough that it shouldn't be allowed? And I'm not really sure what I believe on either of those counts.

But what it comes down to, to me, is that they set up a dress code for the events that she knew she would be breaking. The school has a right to set up a dress code. If she knew her dress wasn't going to be accepted, and tried to go anyway -- she has no right to sue.

Originally posted by Coramoor
The Confederate Flag represents southern culture and history, not slavery or racisim.

Herein lies the problem. That may be what it represents to YOU. But it is not what it represents to the majority of the country. So when you or anyone else expresses pride in the Confederate flag, you have to understand that there are many people who read that as expressing pride in racism. The flag does not simply symbolize what YOU think it symbolizes.

And while slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War, it WAS a cause. Let's not pretend that the Gone with the Wind depiction of the antebellum (or post-bellum, for that matter) South was legitimate for one second, okay?