# Georgia - Pig ignorant racists and proud of it! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 25, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483 "2015-09-25T14:10:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/21 "2015-09-25T23:46:35Z")
> [@CatastrophicFailure](#): > > Walls Walla onions are better, and have no racist residue. (Washington peaches are awesome, too.) Ah, forgot about those! For now I can get Sweetie Sweets, but come January, I’ll be looking around for Walla Wallas. Thanks, **CF**! ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/22 "2015-09-26T01:21:35Z")
Sorry, I can’t give up Archer even though the show has declined. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/23 "2015-09-26T01:30:03Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > What next, Georgia? The Rising Sun? We fought a war with them, too. But… “we” never _were_ Imperial Japan. The old Confederacy _is_ us, just as the old Union is. That was kind of the point, you know? Keeping, or reincorporating, North and South. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/24 "2015-09-26T01:38:15Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Eh, we can just wait for the diabetes to do our work for us. The neuropathy will probably keep him from opening the cans before it kills him. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/25 "2015-09-26T01:50:27Z")
I wonder if the outrage will get enough air time to bring all the Confederate Flag on vehicles back out near me. At least this time the Rebel Yankees shouldn’t need to rush out and buy new ones. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/26 "2015-09-26T02:23:07Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > But… “we” never _were_ Imperial Japan. The old Confederacy _is_ us, just as the old Union is. That was kind of the point, you know? Keeping, or reincorporating, North and South. Nope. The second the traitors raised their flag they ceased being any part of “us.” They became “them,” and needed to be “suppressed with maximum vigor.” Any and every remnant of the Confederacy needs to be obliterated. - - My original example was the Nazi flag rather than the Rising Sun, but Godwinizing your thread in the OP is lame. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/27 "2015-09-26T10:09:24Z")
To the OP, what if we get too many homosexual killers, or black on white killers on the news, do we also ban rainbow and clenched fist flags? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/28 "2015-09-26T10:32:44Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > To the OP, what if we get too many homosexual killers, or black on white killers on the news, do we also ban rainbow and clenched fist flags? First of all, I’m not aware of any movement to actually “ban” the Confederate flag. There’s a difference between “banning” something and declining to give it the endorsement of the state–if anyone is actually calling for a law making it illegal for a private citizen to put some kind of Confederate flag or Confederate flag decal on his or her [del]Prius[/del] pick-up truck; well, I would be against that on free speech grounds. Second, that’s a stupid comparison. If some group had at some time in the past launched a great big bloody war in defense of the principle that > [@](#): > > All gays and lesbians are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the straights, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of humanity, and the revealed will of the Almighty Goddess, as recognized by all Pagan nations… I wouldn’t think much of anyone who went around waving the flag of such a reprehensible group, and I wouldn’t want my state to seemingly endorse the ideals of such a group. If some fanatical “gay supremacist” shot up a “straight church”, honestly, that wouldn’t really affect my opinion of the Hypothetical 19th Century Gay Supremacists who had started the great big War Between the Gays and Straights, since my opinion of the Hypothetical Gay Supremacists would already be pretty much set in stone. But of course the “rainbow flag” is not actually a symbol of Gay Supremacy, so it is, as I said, a stupid comparison. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/29 "2015-09-26T10:42:20Z")
We eat local (western PA) peaches grown on a friend’s farm. This year’s nectarines were incredible. Ever halve nectarines, rub them with olive oil, the grill them? WooHoooo!! ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/30 "2015-09-26T11:16:11Z")
It still looks to me like people fear blacks and gays more than any bloody white supremacist group. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/31 "2015-09-26T12:29:04Z")
There is a simple solution to this, because Georgia does not have front of the car license plates. Do not issue any type of state tag connected to the Confederate flag or the civil war. Let people put whatever non official tag they want on the front of their car. I live in a small town in South Georgia and many people have the “old” [state flag](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_the_State_of_Georgia_(1956-2001).svg/2000px-Flag_of_the_State_of_Georgia_(1956-2001).svg.png) on the front of their truck. I’m not supporting that flag, I’m saying it is an alternative to putting it on the official tag. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/32 "2015-09-26T13:07:44Z")
What about the filthy English … they invaded us _twice_ … the bastards … ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/33 "2015-09-26T13:12:27Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > What about the filthy English … they invaded us _twice_ … the bastards … Twice? In 1776, we rebelled, that is not the same as them invading. Actually, in the war of 1812 we declared war on them first, so they never actually invaded us. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/34 "2015-09-26T14:58:28Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > There is a simple solution to this, because Georgia does not have front of the car license plates. Do not issue any type of state tag connected to the Confederate flag or the civil war. Let people put whatever non official tag they want on the front of their car. I live in a small town in South Georgia and many people have the “old” [state flag](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_the_State_of_Georgia_(1956-2001).svg/2000px-Flag_of_the_State_of_Georgia_(1956-2001).svg.png) on the front of their truck. I’m not supporting that flag, I’m saying it is an alternative to putting it on the official tag. Your solution is eminently reasonable. But it misses the point. The point was for the Georgia legislature to score points with the ignorant fringe (i.e. maybe 2/3rds of their electorate) by deliberately thumbing their nose at modern sensibilities and the reality of the damage a formal rebellion did to the United States, plus the ongoing reality of the flag being today a very audible “dog whistle” for racists. No voluntary activity by the masses could achieve that goal. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/35 "2015-09-26T16:18:12Z")
> [@robert163](#): > > in 1776, we rebelled … 1775 … ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/36 "2015-09-26T16:21:39Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Your solution is eminently reasonable. But it misses the point. > > The point was for the Georgia legislature to score points with the ignorant fringe (i.e. maybe 2/3rds of their electorate) by deliberately thumbing their nose at modern sensibilities and the reality of the damage a formal rebellion did to the United States, plus the ongoing reality of the flag being today a very audible “dog whistle” for racists. > > No voluntary activity by the masses could achieve that goal. oh yes, quite true… ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/37 "2015-09-26T16:42:52Z")
I think you may mistake the attitude of anyone - and everyone - in Georgia. The state has no small amount of “do whatever you want and leave everyone else alone” to it. And nobody much cares what you think, no matter who you are. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/38 "2015-09-26T17:20:04Z")
Nice try, but this is _official sanction_ to a group of pig-fucking racists. That makes the entire state culpable unless they vote them out of office and reverse the decision. And I’m quite sure that black Georgians care quite a bit about the racists in the state, and State Legislature. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/39 "2015-09-26T18:56:18Z")
You mean peach-fucking racists? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483/40 "2015-09-26T19:33:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Nice try, but this is _official sanction_ to a group of pig-fucking racists. That makes the entire state culpable unless they vote them out of office and reverse the decision. And I’m quite sure that black Georgians care quite a bit about the racists in the state, and State Legislature. Please stop stigmatizing pigs, you anti-porcite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-pig-ignorant-racists-and-proud-of-it/732483.md?page=3)