It's nuts that Americans don't regard the Confederate flag with the same degree of revulsion that Germans regard the Swastika.

To be clear, I recognize that millions of Americans do indeed regard the Confederate flag with revulsion. It's nuts that the number who do so is so low, so that some Americans think it's cool to go out in public waving that flag around as if it's a badge of honor.

Until recently, there was a freaking Jefferson Davis Park that proudly flew confederate flags just a few miles north of Portland, Oregon on I-5. https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2017/06/steve_duin_still_stubbornly_fl.html

As someone who teaches American history in the Pacific Northwest, it's not the pro-Confederate types I have in mind so much as the many well-meaning, kind-hearted students from the west I meet who are "meh" about the Confederate flag because they don't know much about it.

They'd never fly it or wear it, but they also don't fully get why it's such a big deal. They know about the Civil War, but most do not know about the eras of Redemption and Massive Resistance and Wallace's "silent majority" that followed and gave new meaning to that flag.