# Should the "vilification" argument ever work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 26, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-vilification-argument-ever-work/723570 "2015-06-26T22:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 143
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-vilification-argument-ever-work/723570/143 "2015-07-04T18:53:45Z")
> [@To all the ignorant people out there - stop making the South out to be some unique villain.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ignorant-people-out-there-stop-making-the-south-out-to-be-some-unique-villain/724024/261): > > I know you want to take the flag out of this, because you can’t argue it isn’t racist. It’s only racist to people who already assume that the south is racist. That they’re are swarms of people who just wish they could own slaves. I mean, in the last 50years, can you point to some evil acts inextricably linked to the flag? It was on the freaking Muppets. The Dukes of Hazard displayed it, and God knows how many times it was flown in cartoons, car racing events and the like—and nada. Then we have a sadly broken young man who decides to combine his racism and loserdom into a cowardly act of murderous violence. He had a flag patch and now that’s the reason for his actions. Please. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-vilification-argument-ever-work/723570)._