I'd rather be surrounded by Confederate flags than Hammer & Sickle and Che Guevara flags and attire like liberals around my state wear and fly all the time. Both especially offend me, the former because I'm Russian Orthodox and the latter because I'm Hispanic. I think that we should either condemn all hate symbols equally or we should allow all equally. If progressives want to outlaw the Confederate flag, then they need to outlaw the Che shirts and Hammer & Sickles. But if they want to keep the Che shirts and Hammer & Sickles, then they need to tolerate the Confederate flag.