Walmart is pulling all confederate flag merch..

[MrPeabody]

Originally Posted by LATB

Government schools. Government venues.

Well, if you think the government owns the malls and Indian casinos. And the schools make the decision where I live on a very local level at the school board who are elected by the people in the school district at meetings the public attend. No edict came from the state or even county or city government on this matter.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by sanchez

Why? What does being PC get them?

Favorable press.

[sanchez]

Originally Posted by LATB

Favorable press.

What does favorable press get them?

[...Whitepower...]

Originally Posted by LATB

Different issue:

"The decision frees all 50 states to police their specialty license plate programs as they see fit. Had the court ruled against Texas, it could have forced states to change or curtail their programs, lest they be forced to permit virtually any messages from appearing on state-issued license plates."

Ok fine.. What about GA changing its state flag 14-15 years ago

Political pressure for a change in the official state flag increased during the 1990s, in particular during the run-up to the 1996 Olympic Games that were held in Atlanta. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) focused on the Georgian flag as a major issue and some business leaders in Georgia felt that the perceptions of the flag were causing economic harm to the state. In 1992, Governor Zell Miller announced his intention to get the battle flag element removed, but the state legislature refused to pass any flag-modifying legislation. The matter was dropped after the 1993 legislative session. Many Atlanta residents and some Georgian politicians refused to fly the 1956 flag and flew the pre-1956 flag instead.

Miller's successor as Governor, Roy Barnes, responded to the increasing calls for a new state flag, and in 2001 hurried a replacement through the Georgian General Assembly. His new flag, designed by architect Cecil Alexander, sought a compromise, by featuring small versions of some (but not all) of Georgia's former flags, including the controversial 1956 flag, under the words "Georgia's History." Those flags are a thirteen-star U.S. flag of the "Betsy Ross" design; the first Georgian flag (before 1879); the 1920–1956 Georgian flag; the previous state flag (1956–2001); and the current fifty-star U.S. flag.

[MrPeabody]

Originally Posted by sanchez

What does favorable press get them?

Free advertising.

[MrPeabody]

Originally Posted by ...Whitepower...

Ok fine.. What about GA changing its state flag 14-15 years ago

Is that their current flag? I honestly don't know.

[Steve Austin]

Originally Posted by sanchez

For highly technical items or highly skilled manufacturing it is still tough to beat the US.

Again, wallyworld doesn't give 1/2 of a partial flying **** about America.

Profits over people.

True. $$$$$$$$$$$$ is the motivation but if the jobs come back to the US, I'm ok with that.

[...Whitepower...]

Originally Posted by MrPeabody

Is that their current flag? I honestly don't know.

That was the flag from the mid 1950's to 2001 or so that people had reservations about. This is the current flag.

[Admiral Blue]

We live in a scary country. Sad state of affairs.

[DAB]

Im slow.

Georgia State Flag

[mike100]

Nice Red Herring this flag thing. Not much talk about gun control.

[Aerovette]

Was it 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 where they would destroy the history they did not like and replace it with revised versions to keep everyone clueless?

[Steve Austin]

Originally Posted by aerovette

Was it 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 where they would destroy the history they did not like and replace it with revised versions to keep everyone clueless?

1984. And Big Brother is still watching you.

[sanchez]

Originally Posted by Steve Austin

1984. And Big Brother is still watching you.

It looks like Brave New world was more accurate. The big Gov has won by making life too easy and allowing apathy to rule supreme.

[Cybercowboy]

Eh, they aren't really banning the Confederate flag, that's pretty much already shadow banned. They're banning the Confederate battle flag that General Lee used on his campaigns. For whatever it is worth, his battle flag was not the same thing as the Confederate flag, and he probably wasn't a slavery supporter (although some may want to argue that point, but he probably wasn't.)

So they are going to ban this, and the people who are all for it probably don't know the history, but then again I can't sympathize with those who are displaying the flag in a way to antagonize.

[island14]

Originally Posted by MrPeabody

And that's where the hypothetical guy like me comes in selling flags on the roadside.

I really wouldn't mind sporting an Ohio State Flag in the back window of my pick up truck but in some places they might throw rocks atcha.

[Steve Austin]

Sanchez, I'm not sure if it was Orwell, Bradbury or Nixon or all 3 but something caused me to loathe politics at a very young age.

[Kerrmudgeon]

It's about damn time! only 150 years late. Should've been done when they signed the final peace treaty and none of this BS would be happening.
Whoever heard of the defeated side of a war still allowed to fly their flag?

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by Kerrmudgeon

It's about damn time! only 150 years late. Should've been done when they signed the final peace treaty and none of this BS would be happening.
Whoever heard of the defeated side of a war still allowed to fly their flag?

Japan and Germany come to mind.

[...Whitepower...]

Sears is pulling their merch too.

http://www.businessinsider.com/walma...handise-2015-6