“While the swastika was a symbol of a government plan”
No, it was a symbol of the government, which HAD a plan. But the swastika symbolized everything they did, not just the Solution.
"the Confederate flag was not.”
Not what? A symbol of a government with an offensive plan?
Yeah, it was. The plan was to keep slaves as long as they could and they cuold see the writing on the wall if they stayed in the union.
"At that time, many Southerners felt a greater loyalty to states rather than to the Union, and they fought for their way of life and the right to self-government.”
I’ve read quotes of Rebels saying they were going to fight to keep Lincoln from ‘coming down here and freeing our niggers.’
“The Confederate flag is part of our history”
Yeah, your treason part.
"It is no more a symbol of hate than was the Union flag a symbol of hate.”
You say that, and even if it wasn’t during the war, it sure as fuck sprung up everywhere during the Civil Rights movement, didn’t it? All those monuments the Klan raised in the 50s as a direct response to blacks standing up for themselves.