It is done for both education and entertainment. To perform any battle reenactment, both sides have to be represented. Otherwise, it would look pretty silly for union soldiers to fight the battle of Champion Hill by themselves.

To be honest i figured that too, and I have to agree. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But maybe its ingrained enough in kids now that the reaction to the confederate flag is the same kind of unease that I have to the swastika. Even in an educational setting, the symbol had a lot of baggage. This is a good thing, im only '93, my dislike comes from being educated on ww2. Maybe they've achieved same here.

That is true. We are far better off studying and learning from history. We all have a moral, social and individual responsibility to look deep within ourselves, root out and destroy prejudice, no matter what form it takes. For our society to grow, the victims must forgive the perpetrators and the perpetrators must forgive themselves.

i don't think forgiveness needs to be part of the growing process.

We do not forgive for the sake of others. We do it to free ourselves. Hatred holds us back, brings us down. Socially accepted hatred is still hatred.

Nothing much has changed where I am in Texas. You'll see people with flags in front of their house. Confederate flags attached to cars. I even saw an authentic WW2 Nazi flag at an estate sale once.

Nothing quite as entertaining as a war, especially one with so many casualties.

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Don't be ridiculous, anything even slightly offensive to the left wing need to be raised from the history books...

Devil's Advocate, you really have that wrong. it's the right that is working to erase that which makes them uncomfortable. Shut your troll-ass mouth; we are so tired of you.

No Jessica, YOU have it wrong. Devils Advocate is dead right here, there is a constant push from the woke and the left to remove any references to anything in history they don't like, or have it rewritten in a way that suits their narrative. It's fair so say that the far right in the form of Nazism did this 90 years ago, but communists and anywhere remotely beyond the centre left have been pushing to do the same thing for their own means ever since. The reason this is such a problem now is that they're being so loud and try to demonise and smear anyone who opposes them!

*you* are tired of me, I'm tired of people like you moaning and shutting down reasonable discussion with petty BS replies like this. The left would ban the confederate flag from ever being spoken about, which wipes out a bit portion of your very limited history, in the same way equally ridiculous people think burying statues of people with tenuous links to the long-dead slave trade in America or Britain, will somehow help or mean it never happened. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, and those who try and sensor it are just the same as nazi book-burners.

This is not about the left or the right. It's about wether it is necessary to use the actual flag. Unless this is an actual reinactment of a battle with everyone in costume (which seems to be the case here) I don't see a reason for it. I am from Germany and we talk about our country's crimes in WW2 in history lessons from a very young age. We are all aware of what happened and for that it was never necessary to wave around an actual swastika flag. It is allowed to use the symbol for educational reasons, but no one really feels the need to use an actual historical flag for that. I'd never want to "erase history", but how "educational" is this scene really? It's clearly visible that most of the kids in the picture know what the flag means and feel uncomfortable. I've seen several historical reinactment during my stays in the USA - and the people in costume always had a lot of fun and treated it more like some historical fair.

You're comparing the swastika to the confederate flag, shows how little history you either learnt, or remember. Both the north and the south had slaves, but apparently the southern flag is exactly the same as the flag of the man who oversaw the holocaust? People are so incredibly ridiculous, it hurts my head, cherry-picking the history they "learn" or cherry picking how they view it to back up the left-wing indoctrination. Then again, the hard left from all countries were the fastest to make friends with Hitler

I was NOT comparing the flags and their historical impact, but the way political symbols are used in history lessons. And I am 100% sure you are absolutely aware of that, you just jumped on the chance to bring Hitler and the Holocaust into this to give your ranting more impact. You keep whining about how everyone but you is "cherry picking history" or how much more historical knowledge you have - but at the same time all you do is veering back to your obvious hatred for the political left, which in your eyes is the root of all the problems in the world. Talk about "cherry picking". Or, to quote yourself: "As usual in modern American, anyone says something you don't agree with and you start assuming and insulting their politics." You brilliantly described yourself without even noticing. Good day.

Xolitare, the political left is not the root of all the world's problems, but in recent history they've caused far more than their fair share (with the other major cause of instability of course being fundamental Islam). Communism and socialism have over and over and over again been proven failures, yet you still have an extremely vocal minority trying to push their way of thinking on to everyone else. Of course, as they are rarely fit to win power democratically they tend to eventually resort to more insidious methods, which is where we are in much of the West right now.

So well said Devils Advocate. Great comment mate.

Um, Trump Advocate, then how come all you Trumpies want to erase the Holocaust and slavery from the history books, snowflake?

I never heard Trump suggest either of those things.

How does any of what you said make sense? As usual in modern American, anyone says something you don't agree with and you start assuming and insulting their politics. Everything that makes trump a terrible person, made him a decent president, Biden has already proven useless. As for wanting for bury the Holocaust and erase slavery, nobody is aiming for that other than the liberal weirdos trying to ban the mention of a simple flag, and the same idiots who act like black people still suffer because of slavery 100 years ago, while in the real world we're trying to fight modern day slavery. Bored panda is becoming more and more of an echo chamber for the ultra left

As I've said before, I'm keen to bring more balance to BP comment sections, because you're right that it seems left wingers flock to it. Thanks for joining in Devils Advocate.

THEN SEE YOURSELF OUT YOU EFFING MALCONTENT. no one will miss you. mmmk byeeeee

I see on your profile you're a "professor" Jessica. That makes sense. Education is where the left infiltrated first and have made the most inroads. The future of useful academics on the other hand lies with the University of Austin.

Fairly sure people actually want to teach about the Confederate flag, the slave trade etc. What people don't want to do is celebrate it. People still learn all about Hitler (hey, you brought him up first) without having Nazi flags or statues around the place.

If you were run over by a truck and someone called for an ambulance, would you say of them "Some people just love traffic accidents"? People who spot a ugly problem don't "love" the situation.

Thats a terrible analogy Michael. It doesn't stack up.

That they do. Or even worse be offended of someone else's behalf. There are even scumbags who take offence as a profession.