Confederate Flags

[north*star*collectiblesco.]

I do not understand why U.S. history is not revered. I just tried to post three 1861 civil war patriotic covers and received the "banned" notice. This is our nations history, is this an agenda to not recognize the facts, is it revisionist history?  This is not hate. There were 11 states that wanted this, they just happened to lose the vote. This is free speech. Sweep it under the rug and participate in an agenda that looks to modify history according to their values and interests. Aside from the fact that it kills off the collectible market for this patriotic covers category. Only northern civil war illustrations are allowed? Take about censoring, this is it 100%. What does this community think? In any case, I will only list northern attitude messages and images.

[janet9988]

You do no get to make the rules for eBay.

Ebay exercised THEIR right of free speech by not allowing you to sell the confederate flag ON THEIR SITE.

Go sell the flag on YOUR site.

You do not have the rights dictate  anyone else's right to free speech.

This is not a new policy.  It has been this way since 2015.

[meme6253]

Is that K followed by 2 more I wonder?

[meme6253]

Never say never, This country is being ruined, we are losing valuable allies, & so much more, So Never say never.

[ten_o_nine]

Yet, they sponsor ads on their site where it links you to sites you can buy confederate flags.

[ethylsgarage]

There are better places to sell Civil War memorabilia. That's the sort of thing I would send to a live auction house that specializes in the period. eBay has a right to restrict what appears on the site. Their house, their rules.

[mam98031]

Because Ebay doesn't allow certain things to be sold on the site doesn't mean they are against those things.  They just had a reason for banning things here whether it was because of potential legal problems, too much social heat or whatever the reason.  

To the confederate flags specifically, just a couple years ago or so, cancel culture was after anything and everything related to that period of time.  Forcing statues to be removed.  All kinds of uproar over part of our history that apparently some wanted to erase.  Way too much of that going on these days.

[chapeau-noir]

IMHO, the things that eBay disallows are only due to their bottom line with no ideology involved. They don't want to allocate resources to dealing with even a small amount of hassle over whatever hot button issue is happening, so they wholesale ban any related items. Due to the complexity of the platform and sheer number of items on here, some things slip through, but their only actual ideology is profit, whatever else they say.  

[roccotacodad54]

   The organization you refer to by the letter "K" is a demorcat  party organization that  doesn't have the clout that it once had.

[roccotacodad54]

   Not ripped in half. The states that wanted to secceed expected that they were allowed to leave the union according to the rules set forth upon their joining the union.

   They just wanted the US government to honor the agreement. They didn't. The north just wanted to tax the south more because the south had more slaves than the north did and made more profit on their investment (land/agriculture in those days). 

   Today some are trying to repeat the same "you make too much money" thing with whatever reason just using a different rational even though slavery barely exists anymore. The same old story..................

[roccotacodad54]

   You don't realize the civil war was fought over taxes? The north had slaves too.

[lb23cavaliersmvp]

Keep watching fox news for your revisionist history. Slavery in the north ended decades before the Civil War.

[fbusoni]

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@lb23cavaliersmvp wrote:

Slavery in the north ended decades before the Civil War.

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@lb23cavaliersmvp 

These sorts of sweeping generalizations might pass for an elementary school social studies class, but there are people participating here in these forums who actually know a little about the finer points of US history.

[gone.c-33]

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@fbusoni wrote:

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@lb23cavaliersmvp wrote:

Slavery in the north ended decades before the Civil War.

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@lb23cavaliersmvp 

These sorts of sweeping generalizations might pass for an elementary school social studies class, but there are people participating here in these forums who actually know a little about the finer points of US history.

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While saying that slavery had completely been eradicated in the north before the civil war IS a little simplistic, it is still less disingenuous and revisionist than claiming the civil war was about taxes. It was complex and different actors may have had different reasons but ultimately it was about slavery.

[fbusoni]

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@gone.c-33 wrote:

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@fbusoni wrote:

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@lb23cavaliersmvp wrote:

Slavery in the north ended decades before the Civil War.

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@lb23cavaliersmvp 

These sorts of sweeping generalizations might pass for an elementary school social studies class, but there are people participating here in these forums who actually know a little about the finer points of US history.

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While saying that slavery had completely been eradicated in the north before the civil war IS a little simplistic, it is still less disingenuous and revisionist than claiming the civil war was about taxes. It was complex and different actors may have had different reasons but ultimately it was about slavery.

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@gone.c-33 

Understood.  I am merely making a point about accuracy.

[chapeau-noir]

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@roccotacodad54 wrote:

   The organization you refer to by the letter "K" is a demorcat  party organization that  doesn't have the clout that it once had.

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That was before the party realignment with 1964 Civil Rights act and Nixon's "southern strategy", when white southern Democrats flipped to the Republican party. The two parties are almost unrecognisable to what they were previously.