Catatonic
Nine Lives
Nothing but the US red, white and blue around here.
confederate flag?
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MAKAVELI
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Well good for you but it is what it represents for a majority of African-Americans and white southerners and Americans in general.
tourists24
Well-Known Member
So be it
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
You can still fly it on your house or 4x4, but it has no place flying over a government building.
tourists24
Well-Known Member
WK I thought of u when I passed this flag lol. Lunch time yet?
wkmac
Well-Known Member
Add a big ole pizza pie in the middle and it's perfect.
"The dough will rise again!"
So if everyone is running around "making it theirs" I guess there is no reason to worry about anyone banning anything.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
The "truth" that they're using the flag to get some attention and make money. or that they're too ignorant to know what the flag stands for? Rappers aren't known for being rocket scientists.
tourists24
Well-Known Member
Only the cupcake society companies that ban them from their shelves
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Lots of rappers are more intelligent than the general public, a few come to mind right off the bat.
You can't deny the successful reappropriation of the N word by the African American community, mostly via the hip hop industry. All they had to do was drop the hard R.
realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
You mean my family, which lives in THE SOUTH, don"t represent the general feelings of THE SOUTH?
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wkmac
Well-Known Member
I'll still defend those companies even if their decision is for cupcake reasons. Just as I'll defend your right to not do business with them for reasons of having to do with cupcakes. And I'll also defend your or anyone else who sees a market opening for such flags who chooses to fill that market niche and profit from it.
I'll also defend the right of a business to do business or not do business with whom they choose, for even religious reasons to which I disagree but at the same time I'll protest the state for enforcing rules that privilege those businesses over potential market competition.
Should a bakery refuse a gay couple a cake, the market should be free for anyone to bake them the cake they want even out of their own kitchen and sell it to the gay couple for their needs. Most all jurisdictions from zoning to business regulations prohibit such market actions. Unless of course you make sure the State is cut in on the action.
Imagine back in the day a black man being refused a meal to which he and his friends opened a restaurant right out of his kitchen and dining room who because of less overhead could offer a meal at a much lower price to anyone? Or even just to black people if they so choose?
Now imagine how much bite segregation would have as market forces would begin to undercut and erode segregation itself. Green trumps skin color every time. Segregation only worked when the forces of the market were restricted and privileged to certain classes to the disadvantage of others. In fact segregation itself was a matter of law. a free market intervention and violation, so without segregation laws, would the people have remained so separate given their natural choice and will?
Looking at our society today seems to suggest otherwise because we still have the right to associate or not associate with people, our natural or free will, yet for the most part we do so now and give it little thought until some knuckle dragging neanderthal drags out his version of tribalism and needing to wave his piece of cloth to keep it relevant. And oddly enough, I'll defend his right to do so too!
Overpaid Union Thug
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I've seen a few polls that suggest that the majority of white Americans view the Rebel Flag as a symbol of southern pride.
wkmac
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Good thing they're bringing down the flag, that will SURELY eradicate racism.
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Racists are going to remain as long as this planet keeps turning, Banning flags, or FORCING people to do anything will HARDLY do anything to stop that.
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Racists are going to remain as long as this planet keeps turning, Banning flags, or FORCING people to do anything will HARDLY do anything to stop that.
But then again, not only do they not have to sell them, you don't have to shop for ANYTHING at their stores. This isn't about an inconvenience is it?
Banning flags? Who's doing that? You guys get wrapped up about nothing.
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