Why is it ok to remove confederate flags and not the Stars and Stripes?

Ah it seems I've touched a nerve. Clearly you've been a victim of too much star spangled koolaid to think rationally. I can at least recognize the attempt to be objective, but your own bias has betrayed you. It's obvious you're willing to twist and contort history to justify your racist apartheid state no matter what. Most disingenuous to say the least.

There are so many other factors here that calling both sides equally racists is just an attempt to provoke - it has no real meaning nor does it make any argument, nor do explain the context in which or why you are even saying that. The obvious answer would be trolling.

The argument is that both sides are equally racist. Do not try to overcomplicate it. You're living in a country founded and based upon normalized white supremacy. Not a difficult concept to grasp, but I know it's hard to acknowledge when you suffer from serious cognitive dissonance as so many Americans do. Also "trolling" isn't a real word, or at least an academic one. Please refrain from using internet lingo in a serious discussion. It just makes your position look weak and defeatist.

The Native Americans marched out to the West mostly came from the South by the way.

Wow, you passed grade school geography. Nice job. But it doesn't change the fact that the Federal government was mostly responsible for wiping out hundreds of thousands of American Indians and imprisoning them in ghettos. But somehow doing that to one ethnicity is more 'acceptable' historically in America's grand narrative of manifest destiny. That's not even mentioning the vast swathe of codified racism that no other country had to such an extent.

That is that the Confederate flag stood for breaking up the union and for slavery. The Union continued on, yes, with many of the same problems, but also a few generations later gave the vote to women.

A fair re imagining of history, but not altogether convincing. The Confederacy stood for autonomous taxation as primary reasons for leaving. The Union did not care about abolishing slavery until it was politically expedient for it to do so as a means of subjugating the south. Assuming that the North cared at all about the welfare of blacks is hilariously myopic.

Then a few generations later saved the world from the same kind of evil you are claiming the Nazis got from American - implying America was as bad as the Nazis - which makes your whole house of cards argument blow away

Useless hyperbole, I've found better on youtube. I never even made a mention of "America being as bad as the Nazis," but now that you've mentioned it, you're right. After all, the Nazi party was funded by wealthy American capitalists, and it was after Nazi officials traveled to New York to observe the extensive and complex legal documentation of racial supremacy that they began to draft their own version. If anything, the USA sided with evil to defeat "evil." And were then happy to perpetuate their own unique brand of evil across the world. Arguably, the USA is worse than Nazi Germany in many aspects.