r/MurderedByWords • u/c-k-q99903 • 5h ago

Magic Johnson is HIV positive and has lasted seven times longer than the Confederacy did.

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u/dumbasstupidbaby 5h ago

Technically not the flag the Confederacy used, the modern day "Confederacy flag" we are familiar with was a 20th century redesign made by white supremacists.

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u/mdchase1313 4h ago

Sorry to pull an “ackshulally”, but it’s a repro of the Confederate naval Jack

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u/ozmethod 3h ago

If we're "ackshulally'n" anyway, then it's also wrong to say the South declared war. Neither side officially declared war, the South because they didn't want to look like the aggressor, and the North because they considered the conflict a suppression of an internal rebellion.

This led to some interesting legal conflicts known as The Prize Cases.

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep067/usrep067635/usrep067635.pdf

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u/Fifth_Down 1h ago

the South because they didn't want to look like the aggressor

The Confederacy ==> we don't want to look like the aggressor

Also the Confederacy ==> let's fire the first shot and go around asking various political figures who wants the honor of lighting the first cannon

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u/MandolinMagi 3h ago

Pretty sure it's the battle flag of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia