We are told it is a “symbol of racism”. But could we not ask the people who wear it, and hang it, and use it in their business advertising what it means to THEM? No symbol has inherent meaning. The Cross means many different things to many different people. Everyone interprets it in their own way, which is the great value of symbols: they are, to use acadamese, polyvalant.
Does it seem likely that all the people flying it intend by it that they hate blacks? Some no doubt do. It is most popular among rednecks. But just as the Civil War was not fought PRIMARILY either to protect slavery or to end it, the flag which the largest army of the South used does not symbolize primarily racism. Everyone was racist in 1865, by and large, including Lincoln. The Europeans were just getting started with their many conquests in Africa, and the Muslim and tribal black slave trades continued unabated for a long time. It was in general the arrival of the British or French that stopped it, and in point of fact slave trading continues today, in a number of African nations–where both the slaves and slavers are black–and in Malaysia, which is promising to stop just the way alcoholics do.
No, I would argue that the best guess as to what it means for most people who fly it is contained in this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjaqrL7Kzj8
White country Southerners are to white metrosexual leftists roughly what boobs are to virgins: terra incognita. They don’t get them, and in the former case they don’t want to.
And if we can assume this guy is a dick to just about everyone he doesn’t know, what is wrong with that? We call this a free country, and one of the most basic freedoms is to be left alone. As he says, “I ain’t asking nobody for nothing, if I can’t get it on my own.”
This is precisely the great and signal flaw with Socialists: they can’t leave well enough alone. They have to insist everyone both be within their system, and doing what they are told.
Shaw’s call for people to “justify their existence” and his call to create something like Zyklon B, is relevant here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBZsTf6oLfY
Shaw is CLEARLY what I call a Cultural Sadeist, but note the evenness of his tone, and his congeniality is discussing the murder of people he considers useless.
Charlie Daniels Long Haired Country Boy, and the flag that represents him, have no place in his world view, or planned totalitarian order.
I think the precise psychological flaw of Socialists is something I have already described: it is precisely a failure to psychologically individuate, to develop a healthy ego. This failure makes them extremely unstable in their personhood and sense of who they are, and this drives them to force everyone else to make the same decisions they have made, to be like them. And this, of course, does not create an ego either, but it shelters them from the Great Fear.
One of the things we learn from Complexity Theory is that diverse social orders are both robust and resilient. They crash occasionally, but they fix themselves nearly instantly if allowed to.
A diverse natural order is any unspoiled natural area, filled with many flora and fauna. A socialist equivalent is an apple orchard in which the very grass is pulled up, and all animals banished. Apple orchards are for apples only, we would be told, or else they are not apple orchards.