I don't know if there's a Danish parallel for the American Civil War, but I'll try to explain why a Confederate Battle Flag might be seen as offensive to some.
Imagine if the southern half of Denmark had built it's entire economy around a cash-crop, one which sold well overseas but which required extensive cheap labor to be produced efficiently. Now imagine that the people in the southern half of the country acquired that labor enslaving people of African Descent, forcibly breeding them, and generally treating them more like cattle than like human beings. Now imagine if people in the northern half of Denmark - the half that didn't economically depend on slavery - started to have moral qualms about this.
Now imagine that an Abolitionist got elected to the highest political office and that the people in the south reacted by declaring independence and opening fire upon a military fort. Now imagine that the people in the north had to fight a bloody and destructive war against the people in the south in order to prevent Denmark from being dissolved altogether (during which the people in the south locked northern soldiers in a death camp), that slavery was finally abolished, and that just months after the war ended the Abolitionist in office was shot in the back of the head by a southern sympathizer while at the theater with his wife. And finally imagine that soldiers who fought to unsuccessfully gain independence for the south formed a terrorist group for the purpose of kidnapping the descendants of freed slaves and torturing them to death (a terrorist group which is still around to this day).
Just replace "Denmark" with "America" and you'll see why flying a flag associated with The Confederacy is seen as wrong.
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@TheMadKingEnDanska That's ok. Like you said, it's a bad habit.
I don't know if there's a Danish parallel for the American Civil War, but I'll try to explain why a Confederate Battle Flag might be seen as offensive to some.
Imagine if the southern half of Denmark had built it's entire economy around a cash-crop, one which sold well overseas but which required extensive cheap labor to be produced efficiently. Now imagine that the people in the southern half of the country acquired that labor enslaving people of African Descent, forcibly breeding them, and generally treating them more like cattle than like human beings. Now imagine if people in the northern half of Denmark - the half that didn't economically depend on slavery - started to have moral qualms about this.
Now imagine that an Abolitionist got elected to the highest political office and that the people in the south reacted by declaring independence and opening fire upon a military fort. Now imagine that the people in the north had to fight a bloody and destructive war against the people in the south in order to prevent Denmark from being dissolved altogether (during which the people in the south locked northern soldiers in a death camp), that slavery was finally abolished, and that just months after the war ended the Abolitionist in office was shot in the back of the head by a southern sympathizer while at the theater with his wife. And finally imagine that soldiers who fought to unsuccessfully gain independence for the south formed a terrorist group for the purpose of kidnapping the descendants of freed slaves and torturing them to death (a terrorist group which is still around to this day).
Just replace "Denmark" with "America" and you'll see why flying a flag associated with The Confederacy is seen as wrong.