The Mexican Flag Is the Confederate Banner of the L.A. Riots

[Maximum Overkill 1,997]

Doyou want to make your national flag a symbol of lawlessness and defiance of federal authority?

Well, then, here’s a one-step plan: Prominently wave it at violent anti-ICE protests.

The foremost image of the L.A. riots so far is a masked motorcyclist holding a Mexican flag as he does donuts around a burning car with smoke billowing in the air and police cars in the background — Mad Max for haters of ICE.

We’re told that the Mexican flag “gives people a sense of pride,” and, sure, most people are proud of their country of origin and will display the flag of their homeland at their homes, during important national festivals, or at ethnic parades.

No one can object to seeing Mexican flags on Cinco de Mayo or Irish flags on St. Patrick’s Day.

That’s not the context here, though. This isn’t flying the Greek flag on Greek Day. It’s waving Bandera de México as a sign of opposition to U.S. laws being enforced by officials of the United States government.

Functionally, El Tricolor has taken on a measure of symbolism closer to that of the Confederate flag during secession than, say, the French flag on Bastille Day.

It is being waved not just during peaceful protests, but during shameful attacks on law-enforcement officers and public property.

 

The response of sensible Mexican Americans should be, “How dare you abuse the flag of our homeland for such a low and dastardly purpose.”

This is especially so when the people who are being arrested by ICE are nationals of another country. Waving a foreign flag in their behalf only emphasizes that they are foreigners who shouldn’t be living and working here in the first place.

The better play for protesters would be to brandish exclusively American flags to make their attachment to this country unmistakable and make the further point that, from their perspective, the targets of ICE raids represent fundamental American values such as devotion to family and hard work.

Instead, the foreign flags are, in effect, “otherizing” the illegal immigrants that the demonstrators seek to support.

The Mexican flags aren’t helping, but the best advice the protesters could get would be, more fundamentally, not to obstruct federal law enforcement in the first place or engage in mass lawlessness.

Since they aren’t inclined to take that advice and they consider legitimate acts of the United States government — in keeping with long-standing, duly enacted laws of our national government — to be out of bounds, maybe it really is best that they are waving something other than Old Glory.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/the-mexican-flag-is-the-confederate-banner-of-the-l-a-riots/amp/

 

[Ron_Artest 1,539]

5 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Doyou want to make your national flag a symbol of lawlessness and defiance of federal authority?

Did you ask yourself this when violent maga thugs beat cops with American flags during an attack on the Capitol in an attempt to stop election certification?

[Maximum Overkill 1,997]

Just now, Ron_Artest said:

Did you ask yourself this when violent maga thugs beat cops with American flags during an attack on the Capitol in an attempt to stop election certification?

It's so sad to see Violent Mexicans running wild terrorizing American Citizens. The J7 Riots will always be remembered as a day where Illegal Aliens invaded, torched an American City, violently harassed American Citizens, destroyed American Businesses, fought and injured Police and National Guard,  etc. 

They have proven that they don't belong here and that they need to be deported before there's another J7 Mexican Riot. 

[TimHauck 2,877]

Good to know you think the Confederate Flag is racist, @Maximum Overkill

[Maximum Overkill 1,997]

Just now, TimHauck said:

Good to know you think the Confederate Flag is racist, @Maximum Overkill

Not in any way. 

The Mexican flag is a symbol of hate and violence.  It should be outlawed to display it after The Violent Mexicans invaded and declared War on American.

But then again, where would you Liberals be without violence? It's all you love. 

[jbycho 754]

53 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Did you ask yourself this when violent maga thugs beat cops with American flags during an attack on the Capitol in an attempt to stop election certification?

Those were paid actors of the liberal party that did the whole meanie stuff. 

[jbycho 754]

3 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Good to know you think the Confederate Flag is racist, @Maximum Overkill

Mexican flag. 

[TimHauck 2,877]

Just now, Maximum Overkill said:

Not in any way. 

The Mexican flag is a symbol of hate and violence.  It should be outlawed to display it after The Violent Mexicans invaded and declared War on American.

 

 And you called the Mexican flag “the Confederate banner.”  Good to know you agree the Confederate flag is racist 

[Maximum Overkill 1,997]

1 minute ago, jbycho said:

Those were paid actors of the liberal party that did the whole meanie stuff. 

It was all AI, it never happened. Liberals would never blame their polices 

[Maximum Overkill 1,997]

Just now, TimHauck said:

 And you called the Mexican flag “the Confederate banner.”  Good to know you agree the Confederate flag is racist 

That was for you snowflake. All you cry about is a flag. Well, now you have another one to cry about 

[Kopy 570]

I always assumed protesters were kids, thugs, and losers.

If you have a full-time job, and a family. How would you even have time to protest?

 

[Mike Honcho 5,283]

Wouldn't it be the Mexican Flag is the Confederate Flag?  Why would it be a banner? 

[Horseman 2,458]

Idiots don't even know most of the garbage people being rounded up aren't from Mexico.  

[jbycho 754]

Just now, Horseman said:

Idiots don't even know most of the garbage people being rounded up aren't from Mexico.  

They are violent libtards at the moment who are getting in the way of justice.

The illegals are from around the globe and the majority of them hate Mexicans. 

[Maximum Overkill 1,997]

8 minutes ago, Horseman said:

Idiots don't even know most of the garbage people being rounded up aren't from Mexico.  

Same crap, deport then all 

[Maximum Overkill 1,997]

34 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

Wouldn't it be the Mexican Flag is the Confederate Flag?  Why would it be a banner? 

It's just a symbol of hate and violence 

[CaptainObvious1 368]

2 hours ago, Ron_Artest said:

Did you ask yourself this when violent maga thugs beat cops with American flags during an attack on the Capitol in an attempt to stop election certification?

Here's your daily 6am non-sensical rant.  Are you ever not a whiny b1tch?

[TimHauck 2,877]

16 minutes ago, Horseman said:

Idiots don't even know most of the garbage people being rounded up aren't from Mexico.  

And people that fly the Confederate flag didn’t fight for the Confederacy 

[jbycho 754]

10 minutes ago, CaptainObvious1 said:

Here's your daily 6am non-sensical rant.  Are you ever not a whiny b1tch?

He's never not a whiney bltch. Same with timhack and the other libtards. They never stop crying. Ever. 

[Maximum Overkill 1,997]

10 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

And people that fly the Confederate flag didn’t fight for the Confederacy 

Sons of The Confederacy 

Google it, learn something 

[jbycho 754]

5 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Sons of The Confederacy 

Google it, learn something 

He somehow cares about the sons of sons of sons of Africans who have an ancestor who was captured by Africans and sold by them to the world slave trade and want to give them money for some reason, but the sons of anyone else, their fathers and grandparents don't exist anymore. Get them.out of the history books..

[Tree of Knowledge 1,859]

used to mean follow me for bueno  and  

It has forever been tainted by bad hombres 

[iam90sbaby 2,611]

If I could change one thing about the USA's history it would be the Confederacy kicking the Union's azz.  Slavery would've been out the door a couple decades later anyways and we wouldn't have to deal with all these minorities on a daily basis.

[Maximum Overkill 1,997]

2 minutes ago, iam90sbaby said:

If I could change one thing about the USA's history it would be the Confederacy kicking the Union's azz.  Slavery would've been out the door a couple decades later anyways and we wouldn't have to deal with all these minorities on a daily basis.

The South wanted to send them all back after the Civil War.  The Union wouldn't let them. 

[squistion 2,203]

National Review article at OP is written by Rich Lowry 

From the opinion piece:

"The response of sensible Mexican Americans should be"

Don't you love how a white anti-immigrant conservative like Lowry is speaking on how "sensible Mexican Americans" should behave. 

 

[Maximum Overkill 1,997]

I use these riots as a teaching tool for my Kids. We watched Live Streams of Violent Mexicans all night. I urge others to do the same.