The confederate flag is being removed because it represents a deep seated division of the nation and culture and an exclusion of non-whites from humanity.
The LGTB/rainbow flag represents inclusion, and a rejection of divisive and exclusionary (and deeply held) "values" that, contrary to the most important teaching of their religion (the golden rule), allow some to force their narrow puritanical ideas about sexuality on others by force.
Total false equivalency.

One flag says yes to racism and slavery.

The other flag says yes to inclusiveness and minding your own damn business instead of poking your nose into the bedrooms of consenting adults.

Yeah, that's totally the same thing.

It's div-EYE-siv, not div-e-siv, you fucking inbred hick moron.

And plenty don't want to get rid of the confederate flag because it's divisive. It's because it represents slavery and oppression.

Look, if you feel this is "white washing history" (an argument so ironic it's almost some kind of amazing meta-criticism on itself), then just think of the confederate flag like the swastika.

Should we forget it? Hell no... it's an important part of history and we should see it in books and museums and movies.

That doesn't mean we want the fucking thing hanging on every street corner.

I think we can all tone down on the insults in these already over-heated times... They speak in their regional accents, I speak my own... no big deal.

My blood boils easily too during conversation, but online, I try to be calmer.

IMO when throwing insults we usually end up just speaking pass each other, nothing constructive gets done.

But get ya, I'm 100% with you. Analogy well articulated.

*terrible stupidity from an ideological halfwit.

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Simply put: he doesn't get it.

"Divisive" is general and ambiguous. "Inclusive" vs "Exclusive" is the distinction he misses. It's a choice, (expletive)!

Right and wrong are divisive.

To me, this is just rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. I understand why some Christians and Christian organizations are trying to fight these culture wars, but it is completely futile. What difference does it make which flag is flying when the culture has basically completely rejected biblical Christianity. The moral decline that is happening is the bad fruit that comes out of that. If you chop off the fruit and branches, they will just grow back because you haven't dealt with the root system.

Religion... oh boy.