Is Peaches Geldof a racist or just dumb for wearing a Confederate flag?

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First of all, I’m mostly disturbed by Peaches Geldof’s continuing insistence to dress like a 14-year-old crackhead prostitute. She has horrible posture, and it’s not that she has a bad figure, it’s that she dresses to emphasize the weirdest parts of her decent, curvy figure. She also dresses “too young” – and she’s only 21 years old. But she looks like a 14-year-old Alabama mall girl. Ugh. But, on to the real controversy – Peaches’ Confederate flag shirt. Now, she’s British, and I can generally forgive a British person for not knowing the tortured history of what the Confederate flag means to different people and groups. But Peaches is dating an American dude (Eli Roth), and you would have thought someone would have told her “Hey, wearing a Confederate flag is like wearing a t-shirt that reads ‘Hey, I’m a racist f-cktard’ to some people.” Here’s The Daily Mail’s take:

Peaches Geldof risked accusations of insensitivity last night as she wore a T-shirt bearing the Confederate flag to a party in Hollywood. The southern flag is considered by many to be an overt symbol of racism because of its links to slavery, and its use is banned in many schools.

It was used by the Confederate States of America, which supported slavery, during the American civil war from 1861 to 1865. But a smiling Peaches was perhaps unaware of the symbolism associated with her shirt.

The 21-year-old teamed it with a studded dog collar, padlock necklace and a pistol charm for the bash, which appeared to be fancy dress. Her friends wore equally outlandish, although less controversial, outfits.

Updating her fans on Twitter, Peaches wrote: ‘God Hollywood boulevard is a s*** show at night.’

And it sounded like her evening out was eventful.

She tweeted: ‘@jujuSorelli just flashed me and @JonnyMakeup a boob through the window of the restaurant & a group of little kids here saw. One is crying.’

Peaches splits her time between the U.S. and London, but since beginning dating director Eli Roth, 37, two months ago has been mostly based in Los Angeles.

She is currently trying to kickstart her career after American artist Ben Mills posted naked pictures of her in the net, claiming to have had a heroin-fuelled one-night stand – which Peaches’ lawyer strenuously denied.

After losing her lucrative contract with lingerie manufacturer Ultimo, she posed in new shots for her friend Mark Hunter’s Los Angeles vintage store The Cobra Snake. But it’s unlikely to land her a payday anywhere near her reported £100,000-a-year contract for Miss Ultimo.

[From The Daily Mail]

Now, regarding the Confederate flag in general – I grew up in the South, and I still live in the South. You can’t swing a dick in Virginia without running into a Civil War battlefield, and there are many, many Southerners who view the Confederate flag as a simple symbol of Southern pride, as a historical artifact of which side their ancestors fought on, and a celebration of their culture. Of course, there are people who feel that way who are also terrible racists, and who long for the days when African-Americans “knew their place”. I’ve always been shocked when the Confederate flag pops up in some place other than a Southern state – when I worked in Pennsylvania, the flag was very popular in some of the more rural, all-white areas of the state.

Now, did Peaches have any idea about this tortured history? Probably not. She seems like a f-cking idiot, and I can see her picking out the shirt without realizing what signal she was sending. That seems to her modus operandi – do something moronic, get photographed, cause outrage, rinse and repeat.

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Peaches in LA on May 1, 2010. Credit: WENN.

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  1. Tess says:

    She could be both dumb and racist in the breezy, offhand, and ignorant style so effectively promoted by schools and the popular culture.

    But it doesn’t really matter, because most likely, she’s a member of a protected class. She’s a liberal.

  2. Kaboom says:

    Mostly she’s fug.

  3. lisa says:

    Gosh being a liberal has nothing to do with this.. really how is this political. To answer the question posed on the post.

    Both.. but that is still no excuse.. Why in the world is Eli Roth with this child. I think unless you have been touched by hate and seen the kind abuse some have endured (associated with the flag) you don’t understand. same with people like Jesse James. They do things without thinking of the consequences of their actions.. she seems like such a child..uninformed.. thus the shirt.

    and that is not liberal.. that is being stupid and Stupid has no political association. II IS JUST STUPID

  4. Spring says:

    Dumb, ignorant, careless, thoughtless. I actually find it hard to imagine her thinking AT ALL.

    She may also be a racist, but I seriously doubt she’d put that much planning into anything…

  5. Lita says:

    As a not-American I don’t get the deep cultural implications of the Confederate flag. However that doesn’t mean I’m ignorant of it nor its historical/current ramifications. So – in the same way that I’m not not German (or not alive during WWII) and consequently fully cannot fully appreciate the meaning of a swastika on display, i would never don one. Similarly I choose not to ever have any association with a Confederate flag.

    In short, cultural discussion aside, she’s a fucktard.

  6. Leticia says:

    @Tess, you are so right!!

  7. Bee says:

    @ Tess and Leticia I have no idea what either of you are talking about. First of all how do you know she’s a liberal? And if she is, what does that have to do with her being stupid, and potentially racist, enough to wear the confederate flag?

  8. Marta says:

    Why are you even analyzing the choices of a drug addict? Do u really expect anything she does to make sense?

  9. Kittypants says:

    God, she looks like absolute trash. Hideous. I’d go with the overwhelming evidence that she’s just a total and utter moron…and an ignorant one at that.

  10. andrea says:

    liberals are a protected class? that is a completely asinine statement. it doesn’t even make sense. and where the hell did liberal vs. conservative in this topic come from anyway? shoulder chip, much?

    ANYWAY, my vote would be for just dumb, but in an offensive way. you don’t have to be american to know the history of the confederate flag and this girl is hardly some sheltered bumpkin who has never been to the US before – im quite sure she knows the history. she probably thinks she’s being terribly clever.

    oh, and eli roth is “director” now?

    these people are too dumb for life.

  11. Maravilha says:

    It’s very unlikely that she knows what the flag symbolises, as she is such a annoying, ugly piece of sh*t. She is such an idiot that I feel like punching her, everytime I see her unfortunate face!

  12. Kayla says:

    @ andrea … What do you mean, Eli Roth is a director “now”? he’s been directing movies for a while, including some pretty popular ones. If you ask me they universally suck (Hostel is a travesty) but that’s just my opinion and directing is his career.

    As for this t-shirt, if she knew, she’s enjoying it. This girl is a mess and she doesn’t care who gets upset by her actions.

  13. raincoaster says:

    The single thing that surprises me about all this is the claim that Eli Roth is 37. I could have sworn he was 40 last year.

    Also, has anyone else noticed Peaches’ head is deformed? It’s like she’s got half-ostrich eggs on either side of her part under her wig.

  14. danielle says:

    I think it’s possible she’s both racist and dumb. Also, she looks horrible – I want to see what her friends were wearing.

  15. JLM says:

    Meh, she knew exactly what she was doing putting on that shirt…trying to get attention. And it worked.

  16. So the Confederate flag = racist?

  17. Shay says:

    She ‘got’ her career through being who she is, not her talent (but I’m betting her creepy boyfriend would differ) or intelligence or education level. The sad thing is that it seems that she is travelling down a similar destructive path that her mother did. That’s not to say that she will end up the same way, but I don’t think children with suicidal parents bounce back that quickly and take longer to bounce back and make mistakes (including bad relationship choices due to the rejection issue -even though her mother’s death wasn’t a rejection). Being in the public eye doesn’t really help, neither is dating an insecure older male.
    She has probably irritated her father to no end. If I had a daughter, there’d be no way I’d accept her dating Eli Roth. From what I have read (his own writing on his websites), he comes across like a narcissist.

    What the hell is it with the collar and padlock around her neck? Is Eli Roth into bondage/domination and she is his slave? EEEEK! Get out now Peaches.

  18. Barb says:

    wow, if *I* was trying to convince people i didn’t have a drug problem, this is the last way i’d wanna leave the house. unwashed, filthy hair, unkempt, bloated… NOT an advertisement for healthy living.

  19. Vi says:

    well as a non american i’m fully aware of the history of the south but i wouldn’t have recognised a confederate flag, however if someone said to me “that’s a confederate flag” i’d know what that means.

  20. Statler says:

    @Little FAT Me:

    Of course it’s racist- even Tess and Leticia are aware of this. Obviously they’d just love to wear it themselves, but don’t want to deal with the disapproval they’d get for outing themselves as racists. Hence their ‘protected class [of] liberals’ bitterness, which really makes no sense in any other context.

  21. Bodhi says:

    @ Tess and Leticia ~ That is a completely stupid statement. She isn’t even American, for God’s sake! And if she were both American & liberal, she sure as shit wouldn’t be wearing that shirt.

    Get over yourselves, jeez

  22. Aspen says:

    The Confederate flag is not racist. Racists use it, but it was never about just slavery until racists and the media instructed us all to think of it that way.

    I’m Southern, and I would never wear a shirt like what she has on. My family on both sides fought for the Confederacy. They were fighting for state’s rights. No one in my family ever owned slaves as far back as I can trace. They were poor, but they were farmers and they were being severely pinched by the stifling economic strategies of the North prior to the war.

    There WAS more to the history of the American South than slavery, but slavery was such a huge part of that history that it is hard to separate them (and foolish to try). It’s twits like her and evil bastards that use the flag as a symbol of hatred who have tainted the good of what the flag means to those of us from Southern states.

    Whether or not she’s a racist, it’s disrespectful and hurtful in more than one way for her to wear that shirt. She’s a no-class idiot for doing so.

  23. twisty says:

    Statler-

    I have many items with the Confederate flag on it, I am proud of my 30+ ancestors that fought for the Confederacy, and I do not need your permission or approval to honor those ancestors, or display the flag. If you find it racist or offensive, then I suggest you read a history book NOT written by revisionist historians. You might learn something. Oh, and think about how YOU would feel if people tried to tell you that you should be ashamed of your heritage…I imagine you’d be pretty pissed, right? Every single other group/race/whatever can be proud but we have to be ashamed? Nope, not gonna happen. Call me a racist if you want, I DO NOT CARE. If you aren’t a Southerner then you cannot understand what it means to us, WHY it means what it does, and it is stupid, ignorant and wrong to try and tell us how we feel and what we mean by displaying the flag when you have no idea. Please, non-Southerners, just STFU and leave us alone. We don’t care what you think, we never will, so just save your breath.

    Oh, I will say that I am sorry that you are offended but that is YOUR problem, not mine. I suggest counseling to determine why you feel the need to try and force your wrong and misguided opinions onto others as fact.

  24. Devries says:

    She just likes The Dukes of Hazard.

    And boy, the liberals on here sure are sensitive.

  25. Kaitx says:

    Wow – I had no idea the flag was so offensive (I’m Irish and I live in Ireland), was shopping in a UK owned store – All Saints – recently and a ton of their clothes have this flag on it. I actually bought a tshirt with it on. Won’t be wearing it now anyway!

  26. Jo says:

    By the same rationale, I’ve seen people in The States wearing equally inappropriate and offensive ‘IRA freedom fighters’ t-shirts!

  27. hatsumomo says:

    Ok, Im from south Texas and all, but at first I thought it was an Union Jack!

  28. Statler says:

    @Aspen:

    My apologies to your family, since they were among the infinitesimally small percentage of Southerners who were too poor to own slaves yet well-educated enough to follow the intricacies of the Federalism debate. (That’s quite a feat, given the South’s centuries-long disdain for education- I mean that sincerely and I’m sure you’re very proud of them.) But for the overwhelming majority it was either about retaining their property or keeping their place in the social hierarchy. So respectfully, I have to disagree- that flag stands for/commemorates a society that couldn’t have existed without racism and slavery. Thus flag = racism, and always will.

    Both sides of my family fought on the Yankee side so we’re likely to disagree. I don’t want to re-fight Gettysburg but I did want to address you post because a lot of Southerners have been trying to rewrite history lately to appear like this was all about States’ Rights and slavery was just some incidental issue that set them off.

    Not including your family in this of course, but you probably shouldn’t be speaking for all of Southern culture since your family was special and very much in the minority.

    And I agree, Peaches is una idiota.

  29. Blaster says:

    @Twisty

    …wow…O_o

    But moving on….I don’t think Peaches is racist…well, in the sense that she’s wearing a Confederate flag tee. Racist in the sense of how racism is more now…doing and saying things without realising how ignorant you sound.

    Perfect example? Over this weekend, a guy at a bar told me that he “didn’t want to sound racist or anything like John Mayer did,” but he did not find Black girls “attractive in any way shape or form.” But that I was “very pretty for a Black girl.”

    It’s things like this. Kind of like Prince Harry telling that one comedian that he didn’t sound like a “black fella” when he spoke.

    Racism now doesn’t have to mean wanting to lynch Black people. There are a whole multitude of ways to be racist but in this case I prefer “ignorant.” and Peaches just found one of them.

    And I agree with @Statler, I’m tired of Southerners trying to play it off as though the civil was was about “State’s Rights” and slavery was just a minor issue. I went to college @ Vandy and I still heard sh-t like calling the Civil War the “War of Northern Aggression” when I ventured out on the weekends.

  30. Statler says:

    Twisty- you sure are aptly named! Lol. You’ve got some catching up on your history yourself if you think what I said was revisionism. But judging by the rest of your post, I can toss you in with those mental giants Tess and Leticia, so what should I expect?

  31. Tess says:

    @Statler

    Your comment just drips with assumptions of moral and intellectual superiority.

    Your sincerity is duly noted.

  32. Bee says:

    @twisty if you don’t care what people think, why are you bothering to post a message on this site? Obviously you do care.I am from the south, and I know that it’s impossible to divorce the condfederate flag from its racist roots. If you want to continue proudly displaying an image that is in many ways the very symbol of slavery, that is your choice. I’m not calling you a racist, but I will not “STFU” as you said. And I have every right to call you and others out for supporting such an ugly relic of the south’s racist past.

  33. Statler says:

    Thanks Bee- you said it better than I did.

  34. Bee says:

    @Statler I totally agree with you. Why are people going to such lengths to defend the condfederate flag? Me thinks these (ladies?) doth protest too much.

  35. Tess says:

    @Statler

    In addition to the vast smugness that attaches itself to your comments, there is the accompanying blindness and hypocracy. How many of the fortunes accumulated north of the Mason Dixon, by the intellectual giants you identify with, were associated with the very shipping that made the slave trade possible?

    And I shouldn’t have to say this, but I will say that I believe that slavery was an unmitigated abomination. I say this because it is increasing hard to debate historical points with some people without being accused of racism.

  36. e says:

    Parts of Pennsylvania are some of the most racist places in America. During the presidential election I heard some of the most ignorant comments from members of that state. They also have a long history of Klan activity. Racism is not confined to southern states.

  37. Ana says:

    Well, since I’m a Southern I’m allowed to say what I think. You know, since we’re the only ones that matter….

    I think wearing that flag is incredibly tacky and trashy.

    And she looks like a basset hound.

  38. Bee says:

    @Statler thank you. It’s great to hear from someone who also understands how ugly and divisive the flag is.

  39. original kate says:

    meh. being as how she’s young and british i’m doubting she realizes what the confederate flag stands for. i’m giving her a pass on the racist thing, but not on the fugly outfit.

  40. Praise St. Angie! says:

    no, e, racism is everywhere, even here in the little diverse state of NJ.

    to twisty…you are entitled to wear your shirt or anything else with a confederate flag on it. and no, you don’t need permission.

    however, IF you wear those shirts, or display the flag, you should expect that some people will have a reaction to it. and telling them to “STFU” is not exactly honoring the right that YOU expect them to honor for you.

  41. bellaluna says:

    Just dumb. Although “ignorant” may be a more appropriate word.

  42. hatsumomo says:

    ..and I think this whole thread is ‘ignorant’.

  43. @Aspen Thank you, that is what I thought.

  44. Rex says:

    And while we are at it – let’s get rid of all those offensive Che t-shirts! Talk about ignorant folks who were those….

  45. L says:

    Look, I’m from the south to, and that flag is a racist symbol. Does that mean I think every person that has one is a racist? Nope, I’m sure some of them consider it to be a ‘sign of their heritage’ or honoring the past or something. Doesn’t change the fact that the flag is a racist symbol that people are going to react to. You can’t change how it is perceived by most people.

    And yea, I know there was racism everywhere back then. (still is in fact) But you know how I know the Civil War/flag was about racism/slavery? BECAUSE THEY SAID SO. Go and read all of the declarations of secession and slavery is the first 3-4 sentences if not the first one. If anyone started revising history, it was the Confederates after they lost. (oh no it was about states rights) Now, do I think that was Lincoln’s reasoning? No-he was trying to bring the Union back together, but that doesn’t change the original declarations of secession from southern states.

  46. original kate says:

    @twisty – the swastika was an ancient egyptian symbol meaning “everlasting life” until the nazis adopted it as their flag. so technically i guess i could wear a swastika, since it originally meant something other than hate, but i would still expect people to be upset by it. if you want to be a proud southerner why not wear your state flag? and by the way i’m not hating on the south. i am from south carolina, and i had relatives who fought & died for the confederacy, too.

    @statler – there are some very fine universities in the south, including tulane, my own alma mater. i take offense at your blanket generalization that southerners are all a bunch of dumb hicks.

    for all, i recommend an amazing book called “this republic of suffering.” it is about the toll of the civil war on both north & south from a humanist perspective, rather than political. the woman (her name escapes me) who wrote it is the president of harvard and it is really well done.

    whoo-weee!! now if y’all will excuse me i hafta go back to my double wide and make some buttermilk biscuits. maybe later on iffen you’re good i’ll take ya fer a spin in the general lee!

  47. Feebee says:

    Umm, liberal? I thought it was the conservatives that were fans of the confederacy?

    That aside she’s neither racist nor dumb, she just doesn’t care about the issue, only that she knows by wearing it, it will bring her publicity.

  48. me says:

    maybe before calling someone else ignorant because they dont know the details of USA history, you should understand the difference between BRITISH and IRISH, … since Peaches Geldof is IRISH and calling an Irish person British is pretty much the same as walking around in the USA wearing a confederate flag. But everything has to be known about USA, while USA people can just forget about the existance of other countries right…

  49. me says:

    with this i dont want to defend this little scumbag that is Peaches Geldof…im just highly irritated when USA people get on their high horse for something and at the same time manage to show the same level of ignorance or innaccuracy of the ones they are criticising. The world DOES NOT revolve around the USA and i highly doubt that miss Geldof here gives much of a damn about the history of the country of the guy she’s basically just screwing around with.

    Ah and im not even Irish or English or even remotely near the British Islands…

  50. Anno says:

    Thank you @original kate….not many people know that the swastika existed well before Nazi Germany and used as a religious symbol. It was a symbol used by many countries, cultures, and religions for thousands of years before it ever became a symbol for the Nazi party.

    People just need to understand that these things should be treated with sensitivity. Even though I know the confederate flag does not mean racism or the swastika equate to racism, antisemitism, and all around hate for non-Aryans….I wouldn’t wear them anywhere. Not in public. Not in private. Nowhere.

    People are very sensitive to these things and have very powerful reactions when they see these symbols. It’s best to err on the side of caution.

  51. jc126 says:

    @@ Oh yeah, lots of liberals go around wearing a Confederate flag shirt, but figure it’s okay because they’re not really racists. DUH.
    Interesting you mentioned seeing lots of them in rural PA – my friend lives in the eastern, rural part of PA, and told me she was shocked at how many people showed up wearing Confederate flag shirts to a contentious (racially tinged) town meeting.
    Some Americans take great exception to Confederate flag-symbol wearing, not just for possible racism, but because the North won, and the Union was preserved, and they see the Confederate flag as the symbol of an enemy.

  52. original kate says:

    “Peaches Geldof is IRISH and calling an Irish person British is pretty much the same as walking around in the USA wearing a confederate flag.”

    according to wikipedia, peaches geldof was born and raised in england. bob geldof is, of course, irish, and peaches’ mother paula yates was welsh. so peaches is an english person of irish & welsh descent.

  53. elisha says:

    Why does she either have to be dumb OR racist? I’m from California and don’t think the Conferderate flag means racism. Some assholes use it that way, but for the most part it’s a historic flag in America, still used incorporated in some state’s flags.

  54. Jules says:

    Does anyone realize that the southerners supporting slavery were actually democrats–or Dixiecrats as they were nicknamed at the time. They were not republicans. Lincoln who freed the slaves was a Republican. I don’t think at that point in time they would have referred to themselves as liberals or conservatives. The whole ‘conservative/republican as racist’ thing is a bunch of B.S. pushed by today’s liberals to keep the minority vote for themselves. It is also said that Martin Luther King Jr was initially a republican–the republicans started the NAACP and affirmative action, and passed the civil rights laws. MLK was about to go to jail and his wife asked Nixon (republican) to help, which he didn’t. She convinced JFK (democrat) to help him even though JFK had voted against the civil rights law of 1957. Since JFK helped, they were grateful to him and started pushing the black vote to go democrat.

  55. weslyn says:

    well i’m african-american and was born and raised in north carolina until i moved to georgia..and the confederate flag is racist- sure u can talk about states’ rights and blah blah blah but the let’s face it..slavery was the main issue that divided the warring factions…and to most people that i know (black, white, green, etc.)- the confederacy was/is an ode to slavery

  56. Jules says:

    I live in the south and I think collecting war memorabilia and being interested in history is one thing. I know lots of history buffs and they mean no harm. But if you are wearing a rebel flag in public then it is just trashy and rednecky. If you know it is going to hurt someone, then why would you do that? Sure, you CAN do it, but why would you want to unless you were looking for trouble.

  57. sam says:

    mother of god, someone buy this girl pants

  58. Mairead says:

    @me – Jesus, shuuush! We don’t want her!

    It’s quite likely that she thought the t-shirt was “cool” as she’s a Dukes of Hazzard fan, as evidenced by the rest of the wreck of an outfit she’s wearing, which I wouldn’t even have worn in my grungiest of grungy washing-days in 1995!

    Or worse, the damn fool thought she was making some class of political statement (150 years late, she’s not very quick on the uptake) given the revolver, padlock and dog-collar accessories 🙄

    @Jo – oh my good f**k, you’re not serious! 😯 Gobshites!

  59. Wiley says:

    I love to see all you PC people moaning and groaning like the asses you are. Most of the states in this country were pro-slavery and they still fly their state flags and no one objects. Fact is, all the former slaves are dead, only a small percentage of the population is descended from former slaves, much of the black population came to this country after slavery was outlawed, half the country never had slavery and actually opposed it, and 500,000 WHITE people died to get rid of slavery. Virtually every family in this country at that time lost friends and relatives in that war. What more do you want. The Confederate flag is a symbol of the state’s right to determine their own destiny. It is not associated with the KKK in any way, shape, or form. The Civil war was in progress long before Lincoln emancipated the slaves or even brought up that subject publicly. Therefore, the Confederate flag was never meant to be associated with the pro-slavery movement and it should not be banned just because 200+ yrs after the fact some people still want to blame rather than take advantage of the opportunities afforded them now. It is a part of our history irregardless of the slavery issue. I suggest some of you get an education rather than get riled and indignant for all the wrong reasons.

  60. Shay says:

    Little FAT Me:
    May 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 am So the Confederate flag = racist?

    ++++++++++++++++

    For some it does = racist.

  61. Maravilha says:

    Hey all of you, American guys! I know this argument about North and South and about race is pretty important and really relevant to you all, but don’t let this stupid, brain-dead creature succeed in making you argue among yourselves! Nobody likes her here in the UK, so why give her the time of the day there, in the USA??

  62. Wiley says:

    By the way, the swastika is an intricate part of some of the native american cultures and I’m pretty sure they adopted it long before the nazis were around. I guess we should round up all the pottery and other items that display that symbol and destroy them. Is that PC enough for you ignorant people? I’m so sorry so many of you have been denied a good education and end up angry for all the wrong reasons.

  63. Fluffy Kitten Tail says:

    I am more shocked by the people calling Peaches “Miss Geldof”

    As for her shirt, isn’t she dating an American man, who is 37 yrs old? Surely he knows about the Confed. Flag, so I am sure she is well aware of what it means.

  64. original kate says:

    “500,000 WHITE people died to get rid of slavery.”

    wiley, i think your numbers are wrong. about 620,000 soldiers died in the civil war; of those, approx. 260,000 were confederate soldiers, so that means 360,000 northern soldiers died trying to defeat slavery. those numbers do not include civilians on both sides who died as a result of things like typhoid, starvation, etc.

  65. gg says:

    Did anybody note that her poorly chosen outfit and her busted weave were on their way to a costume, a/k/a “fancy dress” party?

  66. Kaitx says:

    @ me – Peaches Geldof is British, her dad is Irish. Please don’t hoist her on us, we don’t want her!

    @ Jo – I know exactly what you mean. I was in Minnesota a few years ago at an “Irish Fest” and there was a guy there at a stand for “Minnesotians (sp?) for a United Ireland”. He’d never been to Ireland, and was peddling the books of a political leader distained almost universally by members of the Republic of Ireland, due to his involvement with the IRA. I found it to be incredibly offensive.

    I suppose what I’m trying to say is, even though I don’t want to defend her, Peaches probably had no idea, like me, the implications of the shirt. Although being in the public eye, she should perhaps have investigated it.

  67. Aspen says:

    Wow, Statler. Carrying around all that arrogance must hurt.

    My families, neither of them, were college-educated, but we have letters extant that would blow today’s idea of “uneducated” out of the water. They very much understood the machinations of government, and they were more concerned with preserving what they had (given that one side was fresh off the boat and the other was only one generation here).

    You can refuse to admit that people in other parts of the country can see the world differently than you without being wrong and stupid…but that would require circumspection and humility on your part.

  68. Kera says:

    Ok so I’m from Virginia and going to school In Eastern Washington state and people here have that flag in their apartments as a symbol of being a redneck. It boggles my mind but to them, the confederate flag just means you are “country”. so don’t assume it means being racist.

    Oh and in my home COMMONWEALTH of Virginia, the flag is southern heritage. In actuality only 15% of the white south owned slaves. the rest of the while people were poor white folk yet their sons were marched off to fight in the war so forgive us a little pride in that sacrifice (500,000 dead).

  69. bf says:

    That’s actually the Confederate battle flag, not the national flag…

  70. Emily says:

    @gg, I assumed she was on her way to a fancy dress, too, because her entire outfit screams “stereotypical redneck” to me.

    As for her being young and not American, I’m a 22yo Aussie, and I would never wear the Confederate flag, because I know to some people, it’s a racist symbol.

  71. GatsbyGal says:

    Something tells me she’s just a stupid Brit who doesn’t know what that flag means.

  72. girl says:

    I’m just shaking my head at this discussion of the civil war/ racism/ “southern pride”/ etc. given who has spurred the discussion.

    I am another one who thinks that the likelyhood of her being rascist is pretty small only because I don’t really think she is capable of the limited thought process involved.

    And I think her boyfriend, Gramps Roth, is 38. (Full disclosure, I used to like him but now, eww, do I really need to explain why I don’t anymore?)

  73. John Doe says:

    Dumb. I can’t believe you had to ask.

  74. Ayla says:

    She’s both…..i mean, i HIGHLY doubt that she doesn’t at least have an idea of what that flag represents.

    And secondly, what the f*** is she wearing”? Even if the shirt was a plain black t-shirt instead, who the hell told her that it’s ok to NOT dress in front of a mirror. Look at this chick. It’s like she stole some hobos cutoff shorts, ran off wit a dog’s collar and slapped her face to get “the bloodshot LOOK”.
    This is not grunge

  75. Godhelpusall says:

    No one has even mentioned this–aint this broad a Jew? She knows what it stands for but is too dumb to realize she is offending herself at the same time. What a pie faced idiot.

  76. Harper says:

    She puzzles me. I don’t get her fame. Her face is busted, her figure looks terrible in her clothes and she has no discernible talent.

  77. Chessie says:

    What a pudgy, homely girl.

    Who is she, and what is her claim to fame?

  78. Linda says:

    I feel that she knew what it meant, but wanted to get her picture taken so she wore it. I don’t think she is racist, to me with that flag you can usually tell if the person is wearing it for fashion, pride, or because they are just a racist. She is dumb and is a lost child.

  79. hairball says:

    “Please, non-Southerners, just STFU and leave us alone. We don’t care what you think, we never will, so just save your breath.”

    Twisty – it’s 2010 now. Let. It. Go.

  80. hairball says:

    Eli Roth looks like he has a lot of nose hair and makes me want to barf.