Confederate Flag in the Capitol
The furor over the Confederate flag being carried by one of the invaders of the US Capitol is overblown. Many more invaders were carrying American flags and using them as weapons, compared with one individual apparently walking quietly through the halls with a Confederate flag. The man with the Confederate flag should not have been there, but it looks like his offense was considerably less than many of those with American flags. Nevertheless, the Confederate flag photo has been highlighted because commentators believe it represents some kind of evil, like a Nazi swastika. This is unjustified. The men who fought under the Confederate flag did not kill blacks; they killed white men fighting for the Union army. Some black men fought for the Union and were killed along with their white colleagues, but that had nothing to do with their race. To imply by comparisons with Nazi paraphernalia that the Confederate flag is a symbol of genocide is simply wrong. It was a battle flag