It means nothing. It's fabric.
The only importance it has its what the individual assigns to it.
So if your emotionally attached then you should offer the same level of respect to the person who is offended by it.
You didn't fight for the confederacy any more than a black man was a slave under it.
This is the militant PC view which merely adds the caveat that the person in power is automatically in the wrong, so in this case the white guy (GASP!) must set aside his preferences in favor of the victimized masses.
Remember when we as a culture could say "I may not agree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it"?
Those days are gone.
"Identify" under some minority status and complain that you're offended. Ya don't even have to prove you actually ARE a minority!
Of course for Liberals that's par for the course; now we have so-called "conservatives" doing it.
Simply insane.
