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Submariner

(12,715 posts) Thu Feb 27, 2020, 10:23 AM Feb 2020

Marine commandant banishes Confederate symbols from all Corps installations

Good on the Marines

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has ordered all Confederate-related paraphernalia to be removed from Marine Corps installations, his spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.

Military analyst B. A. Friedman first tweeted a document showing the commandant’s decision on Wednesday.

The document did not say when all of the Confederate-related paraphernalia needed to be removed by.

Berger’s spokesman confirmed to Task & Purpose that the commandant had sent a directive to his senior staff ordering all installations to get rid of symbols of the Confederate States of America.

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https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-corps-bans-confederate-symbols

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Marine commandant banishes Confederate symbols from all Corps installations (Original Post) Submariner Feb 2020 OP

Confederate flags and Swastikas. CaptYossarian Feb 2020 #1

Racism. TwilightZone Feb 2020 #6

They still think they're going to win. CaptYossarian Feb 2020 #7

I wonder this will apply to personal symbols Dawgman49 Feb 2020 #2

Amazing that it has taken this long to ban America's Swastika. Hoyt Feb 2020 #3

K&R Sherman A1 Feb 2020 #4

Top military need to do the right thing. Good to know empedocles Feb 2020 #5

Good DashOneBravo Mar 2020 #8

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

1. Confederate flags and Swastikas.

Reply to Submariner (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2020, 10:31 AM

Feb 2020

Why are the wingers so obsessed with losers? Or is it telling about their lack of self-esteem?

TwilightZone

(28,834 posts)

6. Racism.

Reply to CaptYossarian (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 27, 2020, 11:08 AM

Feb 2020

I'm not sure it's anything more than that for many of them. They're largely symbols of white supremacy now.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

7. They still think they're going to win.

Reply to TwilightZone (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 27, 2020, 01:56 PM

Feb 2020

In the last few days, I compared them to Wile E. Coyote.

Dawgman49

(254 posts)

2. I wonder this will apply to personal symbols

Reply to Submariner (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2020, 10:33 AM

Feb 2020

I worked on two USMC bases. whileI didn't see many, there were enough confederate flag stickers on vehicles & some actual flags seen on base. Good for the commandant ! if they enforce this it will send a message

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. Amazing that it has taken this long to ban America's Swastika.

Reply to Submariner (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2020, 10:41 AM

Feb 2020

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

4. K&R

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Thu Feb 27, 2020, 10:44 AM

Feb 2020

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

5. Top military need to do the right thing. Good to know

Reply to Submariner (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2020, 10:46 AM

Feb 2020

DashOneBravo

(2,679 posts)

8. Good

Reply to Submariner (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 08:14 PM

Mar 2020

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Now get rid of posts named after them.

I’ve always wondered if it was related to the WPPA. West Point Protective Assn.

They should have shot every one of the confederate generals that graduated from West Point on their parade field.

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