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Today I learned there was a Grand Ole Opry in Glasgow, which seems very odd.
Also that they had a Confederate flag folding ceremony until October of this year. In Glasgow. And that the ban only BARELY passed on a 48-50 vote. AND the president of the committee resigned over the ban.
There desperately needs to be a Netflix documentary about this whole thing
You’re not wrong but I would prefer a quality documentary over a Netflix “documentary”.
Agreed! But this is the kind of over the top, what the fuck kind of random story that Netflix is known for
The Confederate flag had been the centrepiece of a flag-folding ceremony held at the end of each night at the venue.
Every night, in the UK, they folded the flag of a long gone country.
Edit: The end of the article has an explanation for why, so at least there is A reason. I am still amazed.
Maybe it's like in Sweden and Finland where the Confederate flag was seen as a rebel and rock symbol.
Maybe they need a documentary about the civil war over there. Or is slavery that popular in Scotland?
Wait…. I assumed this was some hick town named after Glasgow, but, you know, in the US. (I just checked there is a Glasgow, Kentucky. Americans are really uncreative when it comes to naming things.)
Somebody… make it make sense….
The em.. South will.. em.. rise again?
Americans are really uncreative when it comes to naming things.
True. A lot of the namers came from other countries and wanted a slice of home.
That does not excuse the cardinal direction naming of towns. (West town name, North town name, etc.)
There is also a Glasgow in Virginia, a small town. Probably named that because of Scottish immigrants. And it's the sort of place early country music would have came from.
Oh, this is the Glasgow? I assumed it was Glasgow, Tennessee or something.
We had friends visit from Australia when I was a teenager, and I found out the dad was a huge country music fan. Then I found out Australia has a massive country music scene.
For years I had no idea Keith Urban was Australian, until I heard him talk one time.
Related to Karl Urban? (He's a kiwi though)
Haven't seen any mention of it, but Keith Urban was born in New Zealand so maybe? Urban is a pretty common surname.
I'm American and I love Slim Dusty!
They’ve loved American country music in Glasgow for generations; it’s one of those local peculiarities.
Appalachia (mountain range down the East coast of USA) is where much country music came from, and in the early days was largely settled by Scots and Irishmen.
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If Nascar can ban the traitor towel, this should have been a completely trivial thing for Glasgow to pull off. That this decision caused this much stir tells you all you need to know about this place.
The club's website explained: "As the Southern states lost the war, and due to the fact that this part of America supplied us then, as now, with most of the trends that influence our music, dress and dance, it is the Southern flag (often called the Confederate Battle flag) which is folded."
The ceremony was accompanied by the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, An American Trilogy, a song which combines the southern Confederacy's unofficial anthem, Dixie, with the northern Union's Battle Hymn of the Republic.
The website added that the occasion "takes the form of a more traditional salute that encompasses both a flag folding ceremony and a number of shots fired in tribute.
"We dedicate the American Trilogy as a salute in memory of all those men and women lost from both sides," it said.
Jesus fucking Christ their explanation is so much worse than I imagined. Just say, 'it's just a show and doesn't mean anything'; lying about honoring the battle flag of the confederacy being "a salute in memory of all those men and women" who fought and died to stop those traitors from destroying their country and preserving slavery is fucking disgusting and a slap in the face to every single one of them. Or just say, 'we hate America and think it's funny,' whatever the actual truth is, just leave the loathsome lies out of it.
I think when you're more removed from the implications it's easier to treat symbols as fun, or to play act. Like how Prince Harry wore that Nazi uniform. It's bad, just saying it's not inherently surprising.
Not sure how removed from the Nazis Prince Harry was/is.
What was it, his great uncle, that is known to have ties to the Nazis? The one that abdicated the throne. If he hadn't, the outcome of that war may have been very different...
yeah it wasn’t a great example, I can see misappropriating symbols that are ancient or half a world away (like people with bad Chinese tattoos), but the Nazis happened on the same continent, a generation or so ago and he’s a f’n prince, you can’t tell me he doesn’t know who the Nazis are.
Well same you can't tell me people shouldn't know who the Confederates are or that they held slaves. More what I was getting at is when it's not a knife at your throat, it's easier to go "ha ha" and not think about the reality of the thing.
yeah I definitely agree that people who are less directly impacted will be much more insensitive about it. I think the distinction is when people who should know better don’t act better. I think a lot of confederate reasoning is bullshit, but they’re also happy to be thought of as too ignorant to be accountable.
I live in Glasgow and have had the misfortune of visiting the Opry once on a night out. The whole flag folding ceremony plus cosplay gunfight thing they do was all very strange and they took it far too seriously.
Needless to say, I did not return.
Good for Glasgow.
So, do american's not know their own history very well?
Like, the confederates were, literally, the enemy of the united states. I always found it weird that people even brought the flag anywhere with them outside of a museum.
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