The Confederate Flag

[Umbran]

Apparently you are not happy with me saying exactly what I mean and taking care not to say what I don't intend to.

The way you stated it leaves much open to interpretation, so Id' say you didn't take as much care as you thought. After I had used the term, a claim that it is *usually* used in a particular way leaves a pretty solid implication, and leaving it there is a common passive-accusation tactic. In text-only communication, actually calling out when you *don't* mean an implication is often appropriate.

So, let us make it clear: do you deny intending the implication? It is a simple question - a one-word answer would make it clear.

Which is what I am doing here with the term Judaeo-Christian, a term I have heard several Jewish friends rant about at length. It is not a term you should be using unless you know what you are doing (and most people who know what they are doing shouldn't be using it either but thats a whole different story).

Your opinion on the matter is noted.

 

[Neonchameleon]

The way you stated it leaves much open to interpretation, so Id' say you didn't take as much care as you thought. After I had used the term, a claim that it is *usually* used in a particular way leaves a pretty solid implication, and leaving it there is a common passive-accusation tactic. In text-only communication, actually calling out when you *don't* mean an implication is often appropriate.

So, let us make it clear: do you deny intending the implication? It is a simple question - a one-word answer would make it clear.

Oh good grief!

My overtly stated claim was that you were using language that undermined your credibility in a whole lot of ways both on the subject in question and due to some unfortunate implications in general.

The intended implication was that based on past experience I expect better from you - and that I expected you to actually care when it is pointed out that you are messing up out of ignorance.

 

[Enkhidu]

...After I had used the term, a claim that it is *usually* used in a particular way leaves a pretty solid implication, and leaving it there is a common passive-accusation tactic. In text-only communication, actually calling out when you *don't* mean an implication is often appropriate.

I see what you did there.

 

[prosfilaes]

The symbolism, the reasons for something no longer matters.

What does that have to do with discussion about the Confederate Flag? The reason for its creation in the 1860s was to symbolize a country founded on the principles of slavery and white supremacy. The reasons and symbolism for it being flown in the 1960s was to object to the Civil Rights Movement.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Within mainstream Jewish theology God can be defeated by humans in a theological argument then told to go away because it's none of his business. Which amuses God in the way a parent is amused the first time their kid beast them at a game (Ref). It's a very different relationship between God and humans in the major branches of Jewish theology I'm aware of than in mainstream Christianity. Judaeo-Christian is seldom an appropriate term to use; it almost invariably means Christian, with a side order of cultural appropriation and erasure.

Rabbi Eliezer is such a scamp in some of these stories.

 

[Ryujin]

What does that have to do with discussion about the Confederate Flag? The reason for its creation in the 1860s was to symbolize a country founded on the principles of slavery and white supremacy. The reasons and symbolism for it being flown in the 1960s was to object to the Civil Rights Movement.

Well, technically speaking, not that flag. That flag started its life as a battle flag for, IIRC, northern Virginia. One 'flag of the Confederacy' did make use of it, as the canton on a flag with a white field (symbolizing "white purity", or some-such nonsense). It was later elevated to the status of "Confederate Flag."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Oh for Pete's sake!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/walton-county-confederate-flat_55b93172e4b0224d88350967?

 

[Umbran]

Now that's just being a big jerk about it.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Clear violation of Wheaton's Law.

 

[Ryujin]

Oh for Pete's sake!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/walton-county-confederate-flat_55b93172e4b0224d88350967?

Not really a surprise. It is being wilfully obtuse though.