Detroit out-migration, in-migration, and the "other"

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The Snopes link doesn't seem to support calls for taking down the flag.

Wesley, did you totally misread the Snopes article or are you being disingenuous?

You did not quote Snopes, you quoted an article called "Truth about Confederate History" the Snopes article disproves piece by piece.

Here is the first paragraph of the Snopes article:

"Misinformation about the antebellum South, the Civil War, and the Confederate flag is rife on the Internet. Perhaps nowhere more so than in a widespread and ironically titled “Truth about Confederate History” article."

Your quote is from that article.

Perhaps you should revisit the link and read the article again. You got it totally wrong.

[Jimaz]

Wesley, did you totally misread the Snopes article or are you being disingenuous?...

You got it totally wrong.

You're too kind.

Wesley never admits to "making mistakes" until he's caught red-handed. His "mistakes" are far more frequent than even that.

Googling his moniker will indicate his true intentions.

[Wesley Mouch]

Wesley, did you totally misread the Snopes article or are you being disingenuous?

Total misread.

You did not quote Snopes, you quoted an article called "Truth about Confederate History" the Snopes article disproves piece by piece.

I was a little surprised as well that Snopes was so clear. But it was 100% my mistake.

Perhaps you should revisit the link and read the article again. You got it totally wrong.

I did. And thanks again.

Confirmation bias, its called.

Nonetheless, I think there is room to be charitable to those who fly the flag.

So what, exactly, are people flying such a flag trying to communicate? Either they support the evil which it was created to represent, or they are deeply ignorant of the symbols they chose to represent themselves.

There are no other interpretations? I think a lot of red-necks just like their out-group. [[And of course some of them are racists -- probably more than racist university professors, but not all in either case.)

Although I clearly am capable of making mistakes, I maintain my general point. I think we should be charitable to others -- especially as regards the contents of their minds. A lot of us just can't see how 'the other' can think differently. And we impute intentions and evil to them. Does Ms. DeVos really want to consign children to sub-standard education? Or does she just have different, but well-intentioned, beliefs? Yet we see her pilloried every day in the media. Does Bernie Sanders really want to create a Stalinist socialist state? No, he just believes that society needs a lot more socialism in everyone's interest. I disagree with him, but I don't think he really wants re-education camps nor a Cultural Revolution. We just disagree.

Let's all be just a bit more charitable towards the independent and different thoughts of others.

But also feel free to beat me up for this mistake. It'll be good fun. And nobody thinks a little more Mouchian humility would hurt.