Nobody said you can't fly it. I said you're an asshole if you do. Isn't an "important part of our freedom in the USA" also freedom of speech? There you go: I just used mine. I don't need a highlighter, and read it, don't read it, care, don't care - I don't give a fuck. But if you embrace that flag and what it stood for, you're a fucking asshole, plain and simple. Some fucking dipwat posted divisive, factional, anachronistic bullshit HERE, on social fucking media, and here is where I'm responding to it. You're offended; fuck your offense. Your feelings are hurt; fuck your feelings. Facts don't care about your fucking feelings. Nothing can change it and you can hate me all you want for pointing it out, but deep down, you know it's true. They were slaveholders defending slaveholding and they got what was coming to them. Lincoln correctly (for the sake of the country) and mercifully (because he was a humanist) chose reconciliation, but both were predicated on the south giving up their bullshit. And yet, the bullshit persists. Your bullshit persists. To the degree you persist in bullshit, you weaken the nation. Congrats - you're THAT asshole.