Poll Finds Conservative Americans More Offended By Rainbow Flags Than Confederate Flags

Politics • November 2013 • Views: 11,811

A new poll released this week points to troubling public perception surrounding the rainbow flag, historically understood as a symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement.

Public Policy Polling found that the Americans polled were more offended by the rainbow flag than the confederate flag, the latter of which has remained a controversial image since the American Civil War and for many holds oppressive and racist symbolism.

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11 comments

RealityBasedSteve Fri, Nov 15, 2013 6:34:11pm

It’s time for the Confederate Rainbow Hello Kitty Flag to make it’s reappearance.

Back by Popular Demand

RBS

CriticalDragon1177 Fri, Nov 15, 2013 6:40:18pm

re: #1 RealityBasedSteve

LOL!

Didn’t our own Vicious Babushka come up with that?

Here's a redesigned, progressive Confederate flag: #UniteBlue #LGBT #lnyhbt #tgdn pic.twitter.com/gVV8Ji9DdQ
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) October 14, 2013

RealityBasedSteve Fri, Nov 15, 2013 6:44:35pm

re: #2 CriticalDragon1177

LOL!

Didn’t our own Vicious Babushka come up with that?

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I did the photoshop on it, based on an idea from Amory Blaine. Vicious Babushka is responsible for posting it up on twitter. So, it’s almost a collaborative effort.

RBS

CriticalDragon1177 Fri, Nov 15, 2013 6:52:40pm

re: #3 RealityBasedSteve

Okay, than. Nice work! I mistakenly thought she made it.

majii Fri, Nov 15, 2013 8:17:01pm

As a child of segregation, I fear what the Confederate flag represents in the minds of those who revere it much more than I fear the rainbow flag. While I was growing up here in GA, whenever I saw the Confederate flag, it was a sign of white supremacy and a reminder that there were things that limited what an entire race of individuals could say/do, and it also limited the places they could work but were not welcomed as customers. The rainbow flag has never held the same meaning for me as the Confederate flag, and any republican who says it’s worse than the Confederate flag is only trying to preserve an embarrassing era in our nation’s history—an era during which many human rights abuses were committed and accepted as a normal way of life.

CriticalDragon1177 Fri, Nov 15, 2013 8:34:40pm

re: #5 majii

I agree. Its pretty disturbing.

As a anti racist and someone who is not a Southerner, I really have a hard time seeing the confederate flag as a positive symbol, especially when you consider the fact that at least one of the reasons why the south tried to brake away from the Union was the fact that they feared the loss of the right to own black people as property.

CriticalDragon1177 Fri, Nov 15, 2013 9:11:00pm

re: #6 CriticalDragon1177

Note, should have said “own as slaves.”

aagcobb Sat, Nov 16, 2013 8:36:42am

re: #7 CriticalDragon1177

Note, should have said “own as slaves.”

Your first post wasn’t inaccurate; slaves were property. In fact, the property rights arguments that the Right made against civil rights in the sixties and Rand Paul still makes today are the same as the slaveowners made to justify secession.

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Ire: #3 RealityBasedSteve

I wear the design proudly.

CriticalDragon1177 Sat, Nov 16, 2013 9:15:13am

re: #8 aagcobb

Your first post wasn’t inaccurate; slaves were property. In fact, the property rights arguments that the Right made against civil rights in the sixties and Rand Paul still makes today are the same as the slaveowners made to justify secession.

Technically you’re correct, but the other way is a better writing.

Flavia Thu, Nov 21, 2013 11:06:41pm

re: #10 CriticalDragon1177

Technically you’re correct, but the other way is a better writing.

I actually disagree, since the way you wrote it first was more to the point of how the South viewed them. But, since the way you prefer it is also good, & to the legal point, I won’t quibble further.

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