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  • Posted by woodlema 8 years, 9 months ago
    And to make this even more outrageous, while Amazon, Ebay and Apple are removing all things confederate, you can still buy Nazi Swastika, and Che merchandise....

    Talk about brain-dead hypocrisy.
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  • Posted by davidmcnab 8 years, 9 months ago
    I'm going to go out on a limb here with a different set of facts people seem to ignore.

    For white folks, the Confederate flag represents a chapter in history where one emerging white culture was forcibly retained within another white culture's national union, but still maintains and celebrates a sense of local identity. As such, it is somewhat analogous to the Scottish flag flown by nationalists within the UK.

    But for black people, the comparison breaks down. The flag represents countless hangings, burnings, rapes, beatings, maimings, wrongful arrests and convictions, denial of opportunities, abduction, slavery, over a century of oppression, and lifetimes of feeling like second rate citizens.

    The confederate flag is a potent symbol that, amongst other things, screams out the message "Know your place, N*GG*R!!"
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    • Posted by ewv 8 years, 9 months ago
      That is not what it means today and most people know it. This agenda is being pushed by obsessive racists accsuing anything they don't like or can conjure up as "racist" in order to become ever more progressively oppressive. Attributing this or any other belief to "black'' versus "white" is itself racist.
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    • Posted by mccannon01 8 years, 9 months ago
      If "The [Confederate Battle] flag represents countless hangings, burnings, rapes, beatings, maimings, wrongful arrests and convictions, denial of opportunities, abduction, slavery, over a century of oppression, and lifetimes of feeling like second rate citizens.", then perhaps the vitriol is pointed at the wrong flag. Most of those things took place under the Stars and Stripes and flags of other nations, including African, predating the Stars and Stripes. Ban 'em all, eh?
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 9 months ago
    I am very tired of political correctness. I have decided to say what I think, no matter what people think about it. If my thinking is wrong, I am open to changing it of course, but I am not going to hide in the shadows afraid of "offending people". Confederacy was part of our heritage and shouldnt be just 'erased". So was slavery. Even Jefferson had slaves, so why are we trying to hide it.
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    • Posted by blackswan 8 years, 9 months ago
      We haven't been taught history, but fables. Blacks (as well as whites) played a major role in bringing slavery to the US. Many of them were also significant players in the institution of slavery during the antebellum days. All of this took place before "we hold these truths to be self evident..." so there may be some justification for such behavior; slavery has existed in the world since Biblical times, or before.

      The South may have won the war, if they had given up slavery and removed it from the equation. Britain and France might have supported their fight, and that would have turned the tide. By the time they decided to drop slavery as a core issue and bring blacks into the Confederate army, it was too late. Nevertheless, some 90,000 blacks joined the Confederate army, an army that was integrated from the start.
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  • Posted by vido 8 years, 9 months ago
    Apple has already been a new-age type of religion for hipsters for years if not decades, it is now morphing into the very substance of the politically correct establishment.
    Expect their next move to be censoring the games deemed "too masculine" for their feelings...
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 9 months ago
    The CSA Battle Flag is a historical symbol. One may not like what it symbolizes, but if we ban everything that a certain group doesn't like, there's a pretty good chance that we'll soon have nothing that represents anything.
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  • Posted by Flootus5 8 years, 9 months ago
    In the article it says that Apple also removed Tank Battle 1942 because it portrayed Germans and Russians as enemies. Uh, the last book I read of about 35 in total on that epic struggle on the Eastern front, they were enemies.

    Apparently Apple is infected with the fact resistance virus.
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  • Posted by broskjold22 8 years, 9 months ago
    Folks, its time. You've seen the Ragnar Danneskjold T-shirts. You've wanted them (I bought one). Now it is time for a real rebel flag: The Ragnar Danneskjold flag. Anyone who wants to make it standard size and modeled after the zazzle.com T-shirts, I will pay $180 for one.
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    • Posted by ewv 8 years, 9 months ago
      They will ban that as a hate crime after they discover it. If someone tries to behead you for wearing a politically incorrect T-shirt like that it will be excused because you are "provoking" them. Meanwhile the Gadsden rattlesnake flag often used by hated Tea Partiers is more likely to become a target as the left seeks manufactured crises to distract attention away from their own abuse. Nothing in the world is as important as their latest politically correct fad to be beat into the populace.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 9 months ago
    Amazon allows Nazi paraphernalia but not confederate.
    There are rumors that Amazon will ban books with confederate images on their covers, too.

    Amazon is now off my list of acceptable on-line vendors.
    Apple hasn't made anything worth buying for me yet.
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    • Posted by ewv 8 years, 9 months ago
      How about ISIS flags and videos of Islamic beheadings with the accompanying sacred text? Isn't that more important than leftist race obsession? But the lemmings had to move all at once in lock-step in a non-response to a brutal murder having nothing to do with it just because the sanctimonious leftist propaganda demanded it..
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    • Posted by 8 years, 9 months ago
      The news reported that ebay and Amazon stopped selling flags but they're still there....so not sure where they got that.
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      • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 9 months ago
        Although it is from a source of questionable veracity (that is, CNN):

        CNN’s MJ Lee, who started questioning online retailers about the flag, announced on Twitter that Amazon had decided to pull the merchandise after multiple requests for comment about the issue.

        Amazon spokesperson now confirms that the company will pull Confederate flag merchandise.

        — MJ Lee (@mj_lee) June 23, 2015

        POsted from:
        http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...

        It does take time for the wheels of dictatorship to roll over all the vendors on Amazon.
        (Amazon probably doesn't want to pay any extra wages for this stupid politically correct BS, but they claim they are doing it.)
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