Very very discouraged by the Facebook posts about banning the confederate war flag....

[peacebird]

Just stunned......

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It's Facebook. The sewer of the Internet.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Facebook, local news sites, Yahoo, Twitter - the anonymity of the internet enables

both the very best, and the very worst.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Facebook's not anonymous

It's your racist friends telling you that they're racists.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. to me, it is - because people still misrepresent themselves.

I am letting my age (generation) show, but I find this whole web communication thing both a blessing and a curse.

Nothing substitutes for getting to know someone in person.

[gratuitous]

6. This is where the party ends . . .

[arcane1]

4. My conservative ex-classmates have been rather silent on the topic today.

[moondust]

7. Similar to guns,

over time I think some people become so attached to these things that they become a big part of their identity, even a crutch. They wouldn't know what to do without them.

[Skittles]

8. cowards cling to guns and the confederate flag

let them out their own racist ass