The PC nonsense continues, and we take you to the state of Virginia where citizens are being told to turn in their Confederate-themed license plates to be replaced with a place that doesn’t have the “controversial” image of the Confederate flag.
From Fox News:
Virginia is targeting 1,691 license plates bearing the Confederate battle flag in a statewide recall that will replace the existing tags with new ones without the controversial image.
The Virginian-Pilot reported that it’s unclear how quickly the flag tags will disappear from state highways now that the plates are being recalled and replaced following a federal judge’s ruling Thursday lifting a 2001 injunction that allowed the image.
“We’re working as quickly as possible to get this done,” Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles spokeswoman Brandy Brubaker told the paper.
Vehicle owners with the flag plates will be sent new Sons of Confederate Veterans tags along with a letter of notification informing them that the old plates will become invalid in 30 days.
However, the replacement tag doesn’t exist yet. The DMV plans to come up with a new flag-less plate design in consultation with the veterans group.
I’ve posed the question before of why isn’t the same being done with the American flag? As you can see in the image below, he also had photos of him holding an American flag engulfed in flames.
Possessing a Confederate flag doesn’t make one a racist anymore than possessing a pirate flag makes them a pirate. This is nothing more than revisionist history taking place and in order to ensure the same mistakes aren’t made in the future, one must have a strong knowledge of the past.