Discussion: Walmart To Stop Selling Products With Confederate Flag

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They will continue, however, to sell tube tops, Daisy Dukes and camouflage-patterned dinnerware.

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I wonder why the 1% of the 1% are suddenly going with “let’s focus on the symbol” and maybe people will forget reality - magic distraction. Keep following the money.

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How about the guns, ammo and attitudes that go with it?

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Ultimate irony? By shopping at Walmart and driving all the small stores out of business, the typical Walmart shopper in East Bumfuck has no place to take their business in any “boycott.”

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It’s a good thing that Haley is seeking to remove that flag but her rationale that she is doing so because it is ‘divisive’ - while also true and important – has a flavor of ‘both sides do it.’ But this ignores the fact that taking down means that monsters such as the CCC will be deprived of a false sense of encouragement because they believe society approves flying the thing.

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Because their preferred candidates will lose any hope of centrist votes if they and the GOTP continue to be seen as coddling racists?

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Walmart isn’t taking much of a risk or hit with this move. What are redneck, skinhead racists going to do, organize a boycott? They would find it easier to kick their serious meth addiction than to quit shopping Walmart.

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I don’t set foot in a Walmart, but if I did I’d have to play this game:

http://www.thewvsr.com/TheWVSRgame.htm

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I do wish someone with a high enough profile would come out and say that the damn Confederacy was not created to preserve or defend the fucking “heritage.” The Civil War was not fought to preserve your right to eat pecan pie or remember the way the morning mist looked in the valley when you woke up at Grandpa’s farm. It was about slavery, and the flag became much more visible after the civil-rights movement gained momentum. Hate, not heritage. That “heritage” dog never did hunt.

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It eventually paid LeVar Burton’s mortgage. Gotta look for the positive where you can.

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A columnist in the conservative Daily Telegraph did just that

Charleston Massacre: Why the South needs to be taught a history lesson

The civil war is over, the Confederacy lost, and the remaining “Southern heritage symbols” are seen by most Americans as white power symbols
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/11692171/Charleston-Massacre-Why-the-South-needs-to-be-taught-a-history-lesson.html

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An excellent essay entitled “The Day The Flag Went Up.” Gives a background on why the flag flew over the South Carolina statehouse in the first place.

http://www.scpronet.com/point/9909/p04.html

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They sold the confederate flag paraphernalia right next to the nazi flag coffee mugs, white hoods, burning crosses, and satanic altars. They were located in aisle 13, the “we be bigots 'n racists 'n crazies” aisle. It’s conveniently located between the soda aisle (12) and the cookies & candy aisle (14).

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I thought that department started at the front door.

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Right. The cookies and candies aisle. You know, the one with the insecticide and herbicide chemicals shelved behind them in the next aisle. .

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What have the Satanists done to deserve getting lumped in with that crowd? Most recent reporting on Satanists seems to involve them making rather pointed defenses of the Separation of Church and State.

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Aaaand, now they’ll be shoving all of that product down the throat of whatever manufacturers they ordered it from and demanding a refund, because that’s how their contracts with their suppliers work. Indeed, they will most likely throw it all away and still demand a refund. I can only hope that most of them are in China.

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And guns n’ ammo. Don’t forget the guns n’ ammo.

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One summer I had a Satanist cut my grass. The pentangle shading he left in his mow patterns really pissed off the neighbors. I kept him through the season.

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