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Title: Amazon reviewers have a lot to say about the company’s Confederate flag merchandise
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Quartz
URL Source: http://qz.com/434639/amazon-reviewe ... -confederate-flag-merchandise/
Published: Jun 23, 2015
Author: Lily Kuo
Post Date: 2015-06-23 12:32:50 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 13396
Comments: 60
US retailers like Walmart, Kmart and Sears have pledged to stop selling Confederate flags and related paraphernalia, but major e-commerce platforms like Amazon and eBay have yet to pull products bearing the emblem. A church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina that left nine black Americans dead has prompted a wave of protests over the presence of the flag, especially in the south where it is considered a symbol of southern pride for some and a potent reminder of the racism inherent in the region’s history for others. South Carolina has said it will take the red banner with a blue X and stars down from its state capitol building. Lawmakers and protesters are calling for similar measures in other states. Amazon and eBay, though, have remained silent on the issue. Neither company responded to e-mailed questions from Quartz about whether they will join the ban. A search for “Confederate flag” on Amazon yields over 30,000 results—including bikinis, electronics, and home decor decorated with the flag. There’s a Confederate flag “mink” bedspread, antique-look flag iPhone covers, and even elaborate lampshades. A search on eBay pulls up over 1,600 listings. While these companies remain mum, Amazon customers have taken to the platform’s question and answer sections to express their thoughts. Regarding a polyester “Confederate Rebel Flag” sold by Rhode Island Novelty for $5.05, shoppers recently asked: Some previous patrons of Rhode Island Novelty’s Confederate flags offered helpful answers: Others told the reviewers to shut up. Poster Comment: Confederate bigotry & racism is bad for business.
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#2. To: Willie Green (#0)
When blacks riot and kill whites, can we call for statues of Martin Luther King to be torn down?
no ;because that isn't what MLK stood for . Now the Confederate flag ;the flag of treason and rebellion against the United States should be removed from State Capitols. However ;we are not the Taliban or the Islamic State . We don't destroy history or heritage regradless of how unpleasant and misguided and evil it was . We should instead never forget what the true reason of the rebellion was about ....slavery .
#22. To: tomder55 (#21)
Who was charged with treason? What article of the constitution did they commit treason against? Treason is the 14th amendment. Saying it is the flag of treason makes you sound like a moron. Just saying.
Didn't the South call it the War of Secession? Didn't Southern states have the 10th amendment power to secede? I see nothing treasonous about it. There are many on this forum today calling for states to secede. "The revolutionary right of secession is based on the Declaration of Independence and the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and John Locke, that: whenever any form of government becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government ..." --------------------------------- Lincoln wanted to stop the states from seceding and preserve the Union. He didn't give a FF about slavery. "Lincoln replied in an open letter to Greeley. In the letter, Lincoln emphasized his primary goal: “I would save the Union. … If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it."
Correct,but first you have to learn what it was all about before you can forget it. It wasn't about slavery because there were slaves being kept in the north right up until after the war ended. No less personage than the General of the Union Army U.S.Grant owned slaves and didn't free them until after the war and slavery officially ended. Or maybe you think Grant led a army against his own family?
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#21. To: misterwhite (#2)
When blacks riot and kill whites, can we call for statues of Martin Luther King to be torn down?
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#31. To: tomder55 (#21)
"Now the Confederate flag ;the flag of treason and rebellion against the United States"
#41. To: tomder55 (#21)
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We should instead never forget what the true reason of the rebellion was about ....
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