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You must not plunder cultural objects in war. Just because you don't like their ideals doesn't make it right.
... it's a battle standard.
They didnt take a cultural artifact. They took a flag that their enemy was waving at them in the heat of battle. It was a weapon of war used against them.
It only became a cultural artifact because they put it on display after the fact and made it one for Minnesota. Why would Virgina have a right to Minnesota's culture?
the southern cross was not a cultural object. it was a battle flag designed for the confederate army of virginia to identify itself in the field of battle as being the confederate army of virginia. when a union battalion defeated a confederate army of virgina battalion, they would take their battle flag as a symbol of defeat just as if the confederate army of virginia would take an american flag off a defeated union battalion.
if you really think the southern cross represents virginia heritage and culture, you've been sold a set of lies by white supremacists. the true history of virginia is that the majority of residents did not support the confederacy, only the majority of property holding voters (slave owners) supported seceding, and even then enough of them didn't to create a new state that seceded from virginia to join the union.
further, if you think this symbol represents all of the south that is strict revisionism. this flag represented one army within a seditious "nation" that existed only for 5 years. please stop carrying water for racists. it makes it harder for people like me who grew up in the south with the truth to speak truth into future generations.
Yes, there was only one flag. Irreplaceable cultural object.
Come the fuck on. The south is just butthurt that the north has proof they beat their asses.
Eat shit and die mad racist cunts.