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There is a serious difference in the comparison that you make. The swastica was used by a nation that was based in hate and racial intolerance. Nazi Germany was in large part founded on the basis of that hate, and its political views and policies reflected it. The whole predication that the Nazi party used for the situation many Germans found themselves in in the times after WW1, was to blame this on groups of people that the party told people were "less than German, less than pure, etc"

The southern states were not founded on hate, but for freedom from big government, for the ability to be self governing.
Organizations and self serving people later took the flag, and misrepresented it causing this perception to be formed. Not by a nation, but by the later organizations.

I tell you, some of the worst and most inhumane things ever done to other humans in the modern history of man were done under the American flag. That may not be popular, but its true. SLavery was legal under an American flag for much longer than it was under a Confederate flag. How about the Indian Nations? Were they treated fairly, and humanly by those that used the American flag as a symbol?
Even more recently, and something that pertains to civil war history. Have you actually ever read anything about Sherman's march to the sea? This man was a terrorist. He essentially raped, maimed, destroyed, lied, performed the most awful acts upon the region here in Ga as he marched to the sea. He did this under the American flag. His armies stole food and burned homes from a 50 mile wide and sometimes more area on his path through and left behind destruction, famine, and injury to a region who was already defeated and decimated by the war. This was done out of nothing more than spite, revenge and hatefulness. As a wholesale act and on the scale that is was performed by him and his army was never duplicated by any southern army, even the extremists never reached such a level.

SO, if you really want to talk flags as symbols of hate...well suffice it to say that many qualify.

Well I say it just it one last time since you missed the point.

The point is . . . continuing to display and promote something that the majority of people in the world associate with hate ,racism and overall bad actions. Intelligent people realize that is not only a bad thing to do but counter productive to thier own cause while others . . . . not so much.

Do what you feel strongly about. It's kinda like the guy that chained himself to a tree to save it and died in the impending forest fire.