Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

because apparently, every tragedy needs to be relentlessly exploited for the purposes of pursuing one particular ideological agenda or another.

this isn't a new issue, of course. people have been complaining about this flag since the civil rights movement. but because the flag is so revered by so many people, there was never the political will in some parts of the south to abandon it.

of course, once 9 people were brutally gunned down on the basis of race, by some autistic looking, bowl-cut-sporting southern spastic, the resulting outrage was enough to galvanize people against the flag. even though this in no way makes it less likely that another crime like this could happen in the future. since we don't know how to solve that problem, people revert to flaggate in order to at least secure some sort of vague symbolic victory, so that those 9 people didn't die in vain.