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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Bubbles on July 05, 2015, 10:33:13 AM

Title: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: Bubbles on July 05, 2015, 10:33:13 AM
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Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: jeremyp on July 05, 2015, 10:44:44 AM
It seems like a lie to me.  The car in the TV series had the Confederate Battle Flag on it, end of story.  To paint over it now would be to try to ignore the uncomfortable issues that arise from what it represents.
Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: floo on July 05, 2015, 03:12:12 PM
I can see why he decided to paint out the confederate flag as it is now linked to racist bigotry.
Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: Hope on July 05, 2015, 04:16:28 PM
I can see why he decided to paint out the confederate flag as it is now linked to racist bigotry.
So, in your view, its better to hide any evidence of that bigotry, rather than discussing it?  No wonder our youth are failing to learn from history!!   ;)
Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: Shaker on July 05, 2015, 05:38:31 PM
It seems like a lie to me.  The car in the TV series had the Confederate Battle Flag on it, end of story.  To paint over it now would be to try to ignore the uncomfortable issues that arise from what it represents.

... not to mention the fact that to paint over that particular flag on that particular car would in the eyes of many desecrate or falsify what is surely now an item of televisual history/popular culture, a museum piece of sorts.
Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on July 06, 2015, 07:17:29 AM
Seems a shame to me


"US golfer Bubba Watson is to paint over the Confederate flag on the car from the Dukes of Hazzard TV series, as part of a growing backlash against the rebel symbol from the US Civil War."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33393860

A correct action or more politically correct mumbo jumbo?

OK it's his car.

But he is spoiling a relic of popular culture.
Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: BashfulAnthony on July 06, 2015, 07:32:27 AM
I can see why he decided to paint out the confederate flag as it is now linked to racist bigotry.
So, in your view, its better to hide any evidence of that bigotry, rather than discussing it?  No wonder our youth are failing to learn from history!!   ;)

Knowing what loonies roam around in the States, he's quite probably scared what, or who, the car could attract.
Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: floo on July 07, 2015, 01:37:58 PM
As racism is so evil any icon, which is a reflection of it, should be destroyed. I also think anyone spouting racist claptrap should have to serve a mandatory prison sentence!
Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: Hope on July 07, 2015, 01:50:15 PM
As racism is so evil any icon, which is a reflection of it, should be destroyed. I also think anyone spouting racist claptrap should have to serve a mandatory prison sentence!
As should people with opinions as obnoxious as you spout, Floo    ;)
Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: floo on July 07, 2015, 03:54:46 PM
As racism is so evil any icon, which is a reflection of it, should be destroyed. I also think anyone spouting racist claptrap should have to serve a mandatory prison sentence!
As should people with opinions as obnoxious as you spout, Floo    ;)

And what obnoxious opinions do I spout. If you mean my views about the deity, then surely one should diss it BIG TIME as it is much more evil than Hitler, if it exists, and what is recorded about it in the Bible had any truth!
Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: jeremyp on July 07, 2015, 05:01:29 PM
As racism is so evil any icon, which is a reflection of it, should be destroyed. I also think anyone spouting racist claptrap should have to serve a mandatory prison sentence!

Racism is clearly wrong but I don't think airbrushing the racism of the past out of existence is a positive step.
Title: Re: Dukes of hazard confederate flag being painted over on car
Post by: Hope on July 07, 2015, 06:32:56 PM
And what obnoxious opinions do I spout.
Well, you seem very keen to remove traces of the nasty side of human history; surely we need to keep them so that future generations  see what such horrendous historical events did to humanity.  Espousing the removal of such focal points is, in my opinion, both obnoxious and mistaken.