Amazon pulling Confederate flag themed items

[Mook]

Ebay, Walmart, Sears, who knows who else....all jumping on the bandwagon.

I think its pretty retarded but companies can choose what they sell and dont sell...The only good thing to come out of all this is the fucktard teenagers in trucks who have this crap plastered all over their shitboxes no longer have easy access to said items.

Amazon is removing Confederate flag merchandise after a fatal church shooting last week sparked a heated debate over the nature and meaning of the symbol, a company spokesperson confirmed to TIME.

The move comes after several other major companies made similar moves, including brick-and-mortar Amazon rival Walmart and online auction site eBay. Those companies’ decisions increased pressure on Amazon to take similar measures. Pressure also came from several Twitter users who pointed out that Confederate flag gear was beginning to appear on an Amazon page that lists items suddenly selling better than usual over the last 24 hours.

http://time.com/3932645/amazon-conf...emailed+(TIME:+Most+Emailed+Story+of+the+Day)

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[RICH17]

Yup and those teenagers have no idea what the flag really means

 

[Yaj Yak]

yet n-bomb's are dropped like they are going out of style on social media, rap songs, normal media blah blah blah

 

[Yaj Yak]

Rebel Confederate Flag 3 x 5 ft New Banner with Brass Grommets | eBay

in my head... something else is going to come of this, this is probably going to provide a sales-boom for these products

 

[radioguy6]

Rebel Confederate Flag 3 x 5 ft New Banner with Brass Grommets | eBay

in my head... something else is going to come of this, this is probably going to provide a sales-boom for these products

sales are up 3000%+ on Amazon

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-sales-of-confederate-flags-are-booming-2015-6

 

[Yaj Yak]

LEMMEGETDATGRILL

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[Ti28]

So you're telling me, the only thing people think of when the see the Confederate flag is racism?

Because some stupid people marched around in white hoods carrying not only the Confederate flag, but also the Unites states flag.

Interesting.....

 

[Zack]

We all wake up and go to work to support the freeloaders who are responsible for this and many other ridiculous changes past, present and future.
They are destroying America in front of our very eyes and we all sit back and take it.
I am really ashamed to be alive amongst a world full of scum.

 

[DEEZUZ]

AMERICA, FURTHERING THE PUSSIFICATION OF AMERICA

 

[Primalzer]

So you're telling me, the only thing people think of when the see the Confederate flag is racism?

Because some stupid people marched around in white hoods carrying not only the Confederate flag, but also the Unites states flag.

Interesting.....

The Civil War is also a pretty big factor....fighting to keep slavery and all

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

AMERICA, FURTHERING THE PUSSIFICATION OF AMERICA

Only if it means I get more pussy...then I'm all for it...

 

[Spivitz]

Could you imagine if the South won the war.

Wait......wut

 

[DEEZUZ]

Yea we'd all have less teeth and cousins would be sisters and sisters would be our wives and our children would have both a hoohah and a hooloo

 

[DEEZUZ]

If anyone we shoulda enslaved the Indians, they were already here, woulda saved a fuck ton on freight

 

[RICH17]

 

[Bub]

CTC DEEZUL for post of the week!

 

[Spivitz]

If anyone we shoulda enslaved the Indians, they were already here, woulda saved a fuck ton on freight

Ok, that was fucking hysterical. TY:rollpicard:

 

[Spivitz]

I can't stop laughing, people in the office are like.....wut....hahaha

 

[Flyn]

Wait a month. Order Confederate flags from China. Sell on Ebay to everyone who now wants one more than ever. Profit.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Wait a month. Order Confederate flags from China. Sell on Ebay to everyone who now wants one more than ever. Profit.

Most current American flags are made in china

 

[greasy]

The way I look at the situation is the majority of people I see flying the Confederate Flag are morons who do not fly it for the appropriate reasons.

More specifically looking at business decisions to carry select product or serve specific customers does not matter to me. I will say if you support restaurants that choose the right to turn away gay people, then you should be perfectly fine with companies pulling Confederate Flag product off the shelf.

 

[FrenchLicker]

Flag of Gonzales FTW

 

[Detour]

I didn't have an urge to buy one until they told me I couldn't. Now I have 2

 

[Eagle]

Its a shame that American companies (Amazon is out of Seattle, Walmart is out of ARKANSAS of all places complaining about the confederate flag in which Arkansas actually celebrates "confederate flag day" As Governor, Bill Clinton Kept 'Confederate' Star On The Arkansas Flag) so willingly give up the freedom of speech and right of their customers to purchase whatever they so choose for intentional reasons or otherwise...

Anyways... the path to pussification is paved by bending to the desires of few for the greater loss of our very history as Americans. Pathetic if you ask me.

Wiki snippet on the confederate flag:

The Confederate flag is a controversial symbol for many Americans today. A 2011 Pew Research poll revealed that 30% of Americans have a "negative reaction" when "they see the Confederate flag displayed."[35] According to the same poll, 9% of Americans have a positive reaction. A majority (58%) have no reaction. In a 2013 YouGov poll, a plurality (38%) of those polled disapproved of displaying the flag in public places.[36] In the same poll, a plurality (44%) of those asked viewed the flag as a symbol of racism, with 24% viewing it as exclusively racist and 20% viewing it as both racist and symbolic of pride in the region.[36]