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Karadeniz

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1. The old "it's part of history" intellectual scam. My small town newspaper, years ago, had an

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Fri Nov 26, 2021, 10:37 AM

Nov 2021

interesting segment. The editor went about town with an interesting question, published 3 answers with a photo. Segment didn't last long. The one I remember was something about the CSA war flag being on modern flags. All 3 replies said, in effect, just fine, part of history. I wondered what they'd think if the modern German flag had a swastika. Probably just fine. Honor the awful.

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