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Walmart is pulling all confederate flag merch..
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Private enterprise. They are making a smart move to avoid alienating customers.
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How brave of them to follow.
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They need the shelf space for the Mexican flag merchandise.
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I have just about decided that the people who want to get rid of the flag, like those in South Carolina, have a point. Too many a-holes and douchebags have co-opted the flag, to the point where it's tainted, just as the Nazis did with the swastika.
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Last two posts are on point.
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The thoughts I have when I see it is childhood memories of Stone Mountain, Kennesaw, Chattanooga, old grist mills, steam trains, battlegrounds, Rock City, and Six Flags over Georgia. Probably because I didn't own slaves...nor did my parents...or their parents...or theirs before them. I agree that the Nazi flag has a deep negative symbolism, but to be a true southerner does not carry the same stigma as being a true Nazi. |
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From a purely financial standpoint,
I wish I was on the side of the road in South Carolina selling Rebel flags right now. I'll bet they would need cops to direct the traffic jam of people lined up to buy them. Just from a purely financial standpoint, you understand. |
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All these years they selling confederate flag merchandise. THE most successful retailer of all time. Now, they going to remove it "to increase shareholder value" I say BS. It is pure political correctness. |
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Even if Wally World shelves this shit until the news cycle has something else to focus on then puts it back on full display, that works. More likely, Walmart was able to jam the inventory back up their suppliers asses and will stock the shelves with something else. |
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That's the move. They need to create a place where all poor and uneducated Americans can buy cheaply made shit from slave labor camps in china together. It's time to start the healing. |
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Take out poor and uneducated, and you've just described the Apple Store.
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So, when government officials call for the removal of black American, or gay American, or Hispanic American, merchandise from the shelves...or any other product representing a particular culture, group, or fad... Supporters of this move will support that..."for the good of the shareholders". |
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Granted, I don't have the attachment to the 'stars and bars' that a lot of folks do. I'm from the north, the part of the country that wins civil a wars.
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