Getting Reactions to the Confederate (Battle) Flag
Added 2021-10-01 01:22:30 +0000 UTCSo this one I thought turned out a bit better, but here is the companion video to the MAGA hat reaction video. Symbols, y'all! It's all about the symbols this week, and boy oh boy are these two CONTROVERSIAL symbols.
Again, a shout out to my friend Dan for helping me make this. I've known him since we were both in 7th grade, and he greatly helped me be confident to walk up to strangers to see if they'd like to be in a E-list YouTuber video. Also, a shout out to David Muhammad, who let me interview him for this video. Oh and check out his wonderful music!
In case you were wondering, this is the video where I got flipped off and got dirty looks (I Tweeted about it a few weeks ago). I swear I'm not a Rebel.
Thank you for your continued support! This one is demonetized, so your support means even more since I won't be getting much ad revenue for it.
EDIT: The sponsor was being difficult, so I dropped them. Here is the updated link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-p1jcMSoM
P.S.- I'm thinking about releasing this one first. What do you think?
Comments
Grant- I agree. To me, it is an outdated, offensive and divisive flag. I think it should we should challenge it as a symbol in our society and try our best to educate our people on the history behind the flag and what it represents to most people especially African Americans. However, I have accepted the fact that some people view the flag differently and are dogmatic about it.
Naterade
2021-10-01 22:25:40 +0000 UTCIn my opinion, the only proper place for the confederate flag is in a museum.
Grant Hughes
2021-10-01 20:37:16 +0000 UTCI agree it can be problematic. I have no problem with people marching just as long as it is peaceful. I have no problem with it being on apparel either. However, I think any private business owner has the right to deny someone entry based on their clothing if they deem it something that may cause trouble in their establishment.
Naterade
2021-10-01 13:34:03 +0000 UTCOh yes, that was poorly worded. I was referring to just the CSA flag, I don’t believe the MAGA hat is a racist symbol
Ralph W. Kelly
2021-10-01 12:46:26 +0000 UTCof course, I was just saying just to clarify just in case haha
Ralph W. Kelly
2021-10-01 12:14:51 +0000 UTCWith the MAGA hat, I do think only a minority of folks actually believe it's a racist symbol. I just ran into a lot of Trump haters that day. :)
Mr. Beat
2021-10-01 12:08:41 +0000 UTCWe knew what you meant! lol
Mr. Beat
2021-10-01 12:08:00 +0000 UTCI hope not!
Mr. Beat
2021-10-01 12:07:51 +0000 UTCI plan on making a video about this, but generally if something is so offensive that it makes a majority of people in the country feel unsafe around it, it's time to restrict it. Technically, anything can offend anyone, but just like language can be a weapon, symbols can be weapons, and no one should feel threatened for just walking down the street, minding their own business.
Mr. Beat
2021-10-01 12:07:39 +0000 UTCThat's a lot. lol Regarding #4, he may have been on the spectrum, but he also had white supremacist, Neo-Nazi beliefs, so that point is sort of irrelevant. Atun-Shei changed my mind on Confederate statues, actually, so it is funny you brought that up.
Mr. Beat
2021-10-01 12:05:18 +0000 UTCYeah, I think people marching in the street with it, as well as it being in front of capital buildings and courthouses, is problematic, but on private property people aren't stirring up trouble. What about on apparel, though?
Mr. Beat
2021-10-01 12:03:23 +0000 UTCyes lol
Ralph W. Kelly
2021-10-01 09:32:27 +0000 UTC(by that I mean the design of the flag is good, the historical context and what the flag represents is obviously horrendous)
Ralph W. Kelly
2021-10-01 09:32:07 +0000 UTCI like how you’re releasing this one alongside the MAGA video. It’s one of these cases where the object is being viewed as racist because the vast majority of people who have it are/were racist. You can actually find this with a lot of things. The confederate battle flag of course was used as a symbol of patriotism to the new country, the CSA, not directly as a symbol of slavery, of course the confederacy itself was mostly based on slavery. It’s a shame it’s delved in that, cause it’s actually got a killer design.
Ralph W. Kelly
2021-10-01 05:56:22 +0000 UTCohh and 10-1 youtube will have this taken down. because youtube is lead by jerks.
Devin Canada
2021-10-01 04:26:30 +0000 UTCYour last statment "if white suprimist love them perhaps we ought to avoid them." I disagree with this on principle because those groups have in the past attached themselves to popular or even common signs so the establishment media would report it and create outrage that would force the average american to be associated as raciest or forced to abandon it. We saw this with the OK symbol which was done with that purpose in mind. This may also be happening with the word Western Culture (not sure but im still shocked Cypher views the word as raciest and not just like holding door open for a lady etc. etc.) And it is still sad today that a black person can say "im proud to be born black" but a white person saying "im proud to be born white." will make the white person raciest but the black person not because hate groups stole the phrase and people let it happen. This also doesnt help that SPLC does the same thing by labeling none raciest groups as raciest like the proud boys who were lead by a black man. I contend that we shouldnt allow such a small minority of people. (the KKK only has 3000 people in 2017 usnews.com) dictate the language, symbols, and meaning of words of the majority. the same goes for the the left of course.
Devin Canada
2021-10-01 04:25:37 +0000 UTCI have a lot of things i thought of right away with this video ill have to list them. 1. Antushai wasthe person i could point to who changed my mind on the meaning of the flag and like him i belive people who wave it are not raciest but sadly misguided in its meaning. 2. i thought it was interesting you ran into all anti confederate flag people but not surprising in Lawrance. here in Lacygne i think there is a bit of both. 3. that teacher from Shawnee was surprising as i only met three raciest white people in my life and one lived in Shawnee, i remember visiting his house with my uncle and my uncle said before hand since i was getting ready to go to africa. "This guy will be kind to you as long as your kind to him but i warn you he will likely say something offensive because he is raciest" and he was nice to me over all. the other two were from Kansas City and Colorado. 4. a raciest did not run over people that was a guy with high functioning Autiesm who when driving his car saw a college professor waving a gun. on the anti statue side and paniced driving forward into the crowd. 5. The Unite the Right was lead by a former campaigner for Obama, i always wondered what changed, but anyways they hid their raciest views when getting the protest started it is no wonder that when that was exposed they only got 11 people to show up the next year. 6. I notice raciest attech themselves to popular movments i remember the Tea Party had started chasing off raciest with physical violence as them showing up made the establishment media paint the whole movement as raciest. one funny one was this fat tea party guy screaming and chasing off these guys who were just showing up pretending to be raciest. 7. In my first trip to Zambia i saw a hindu temple and freeked out because i thought it was a relic of Nazi Germany.
Devin Canada
2021-10-01 04:08:02 +0000 UTCGood companion video to the MAGA video. The confederate flag is definitely a polarizing symbol. Considering how the civil war was based on slavery and that was the confederacy’s symbol, I don’t understand how anyone can defend it not as a symbol of racism and oppression. Especially since hate groups have adopted it as one of their symbols. I don’t think it has any right to be on flown outside of government buildings given the above. I have never understood the heritage argument to be honest. Some things should be left in the past. Even though I dislike the confederate flag, people should have the right to display it in public and on their own property.
Naterade
2021-10-01 03:24:07 +0000 UTC
