TOTALLY GEEKED!

Tinydancer · Guru

RE: Walmart announces it is to remove all Confederate flag merchandise from its stores and website

Ohfour · Hooker

Mellow Momma wrote:
Tinydancer wrote:
I'm with lily. If you use the n word even if it's to joke with a friend then I can't take it serious when you start crying about racism. Either it's a racist word for all or a racist word for none and we all know it's racist at this point in history.
I partially agree with you. I think it's either a good word or a bad word, it shouldn't depend on who uses it. That said, what a man calls his friend has no bearing on whether or not he experiences actual racism and we should take him seriously when he says he experiences it.

What they say in the confines of their own homes are none of my business. But when they are in public, greeting each other, loudly, they need to stop saying it.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

More PC crap.

Mellow Momma · Sniff...sniff, sniff. Yay! A Bum!

Ohfour wrote:
And then you have Nashville...where, as you enter the city is a 25 foot statue of Nathan Bedford Forest.
Not only is it race inciting, its ugly...

It looks like he is riding a unicorn from that angle. 😉

Ohfour · Hooker

HAHAHA!

They are in the process of voting on whether to plant trees in front of it. It's just UGLY. And was erected with the total intention of pissing people off...

-- Edited by Ohfour on Tuesday 23rd of June 2015 03:58:44 PM

TrudyML · Guru

It is horrible.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

We've driven through Nashville several times, but thank goodness, NEVER seen that!

flan

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

That's terrible.

FNW · Guru

How is he race-inciting? He killed whites as well as blacks. I would think the statue would be abhorred by blacks and whites alike. And as for his membership in the K, Senator Byrd was the poobah of the K and liberals seemed to be able to overlook that little tidbit.

Regardless of what this statue might represent, it is pretty ugly.

Ohfour · Hooker

FNW wrote:
How is he race-inciting? He killed whites as well as blacks. I would think the statue would be abhorred by blacks and whites alike. And as for his membership in the K, Senator Byrd was the poobah of the K and liberals seemed to be able to overlook that little tidbit.

Regardless of what this statue might represent, it is pretty ugly.

Oh it is...

But the reason he put it there was to provoke black people. That's never even been disputed. He wasn't just a member of the KKK, he started it...

FNW · Guru

I still scratch my head over Byrd being elected and then revered.

Ohfour · Hooker

FNW wrote:
I still scratch my head over Byrd being elected and then revered.

BY DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!

FNW · Guru

True, true.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

And, then everything Southern will be considered "racist", so they better beware as they tear all these flags down.

Ohfour · Hooker

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
And, then everything Southern will be considered "racist", so they better beware as they tear all these flags down.

mmmhmmm...

They are already talking about removing busts from the Capitol Building here. Andrew Jackson was a slave owner. So was Polk. I'm pretty sure Andrew Johnson was too. Are we going to remove all remembrances of them?

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Yes. Let's just remove it all. Instead of learning about it and from it all, let's pretend it never happened.

Should be easy to do.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Ohfour wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
And, then everything Southern will be considered "racist", so they better beware as they tear all these flags down.
mmmhmmm...
They are already talking about removing busts from the Capitol Building here. Andrew Jackson was a slave owner. So was Polk. I'm pretty sure Andrew Johnson was too. Are we going to remove all remembrances of them?

Of course. Once liberals gain a foothold and momentum, they aren't going to stop. They will do everything possible to destroy American culture.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

lilyofcourse wrote:
Yes. Let's just remove it all. Instead of learning about it and from it all, let's pretend it never happened.

Should be easy to do.

Well, if a boy can pretend to be a girl and a white person can pretend to be black, then I guess the sky is the limit!

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Right?

Ohfour · Hooker

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
Ohfour wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
And, then everything Southern will be considered "racist", so they better beware as they tear all these flags down.
mmmhmmm...
They are already talking about removing busts from the Capitol Building here. Andrew Jackson was a slave owner. So was Polk. I'm pretty sure Andrew Johnson was too. Are we going to remove all remembrances of them?
Of course. Once liberals gain a foothold and momentum, they aren't going to stop. They will do everything possible to destroy American culture.

She SAID he would!!!!!

"Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."
~Michelle Obama, May 14, 2008

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Change history.

What an idiot.

I still don't get how those two got elected twice.

burns07 · Guru

"Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."
~Michelle Obama, May 14, 2008
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bullspit--will NEVER change the traditions that have made us great--will NEVER change our history ( good and bad ) that has brought us together through nearly three centuries--we WILL, however, move to a different place as a nation--we WILL reclaim those values and character that were once the light of the world--we WILL move away from the malaise and morass of the last eight years and back to the place where we belong--we WILL return to the high principles and beliefs preserved and protected by the courage and sacrifice of so many millions of our fellow Americans--an enormous debt of honor owed by every living American to our ancestors--and we will do so when we turn away from the liberal, left-wing, anti-American, Socialist, selfish and self-destructive politics and ideology of the American Left and their sycophants in the media

-- Edited by burns07 on Tuesday 23rd of June 2015 06:58:59 PM

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Well this is how stupid it's become, other distributors have jumped on the bandwagon. Taking anything with a Confederate flag on it in any way, out of their stores, online or anywhere.

This includes things like Dukes of Hazzard toys and stuff.

It's so stupid.

Ohfour · Hooker

Yet they sell Nazi flags and Che Gueverra posters and flags...

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

No kidding.

Domestic Engineer · Guru

What is Mississippi going to do with its stat flag?

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Same thing Ga. had to do. Change it.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Old Georgia flag.

New Georgia flag.

WYSIWYG · Guru

Well, if a boy can pretend to be a girl and a white person can pretend to be black, then I guess the sky is the limit! - Lady Gaga Snerd

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Does anyone know a good way to get Dr Pepper out of a keyboard? If I turn this laptop in after having it only two days I'm probably going to be in trouble.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

WYSIWYG wrote:
Well, if a boy can pretend to be a girl and a white person can pretend to be black, then I guess the sky is the limit! - Lady Gaga Snerd

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Does anyone know a good way to get Dr Pepper out of a keyboard? If I turn this laptop in after having it only two days I'm probably going to be in trouble.

Bury it in rice maybe?

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS AND FANS FROM BEN JONES AKA “COOTER”

I THINK ALL OF HAZZARD NATION UNDERSTANDS THAT THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG IS THE SYMBOL THAT REPRESENTS THE INDOMITABLE SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE WHICH KEEPS US “MAKIN’ OUR WAY THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW HOW.”

THAT FLAG ON TOP OF THE GENERAL LEE MADE A STATEMENT THAT THE VALUES OF THE RURAL SOUTH WERE THE VALUES OF COURAGE AND FAMILY AND GOOD TIMES.

OUR BELOVED SYMBOL IS NOW BEING ATTACKED IN A WAVE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS THAT IS UNPRECEDENTED IN OUR NATION OF FREE SPEECH AND FREE EXPRESSION. ACTIVISTS AND POLITICIANS ARE VILLIFYING SOUTHERN CULTURE AND OUR HERITAGE AS BEING BIGOTED AND RACIST. WE KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT THE CASE. AND WE KNOW THAT IN HAZZARD COUNTY THERE WAS NEVER ANY RACISM.

THOUGH THE FLAG HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM SUCH PLACES AS WALMART, TARGET AND AMAZON, IT WILL NEVER BE REMOVED FROM ANY OF OUR COOTER’S STORES AND MUSEUMS. WE ARE ALL THE SAME GOOD PEOPLE TODAY THAT WE WERE LAST WEEK AND LAST YEAR AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE SHAMED INTO TURNING OUR BACKS ON OUR HERITAGE AND OUR CONVICTIONS.

WE ARE NOT RACISTS. WE DESPISE RACISM AND BIGOTRY. AND WE THINK THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CREATING THIS “CULTURAL CLEANSING” ARE THE REAL BIGOTS IN THIS STORY.

WHEN WE SAY OUR FLAG STANDS FOR “HERITAGE, NOT HATE” AND “PRIDE, NOT PREJUDICE”, WE MEAN IT. AND WE BELIEVE THAT OLD SAYING, “YOU CAN’T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING IF YOU FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM.”

COOTER’S IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO SELL OUR SOUTHERN SYMBOLS AS LONG AS THERE IS A COOTER’S. I WILL FIGHT THESE PEOPLE UNTIL HELL FREEZES OVER, AND THEN I WILL FIGHT THEM ON THE ICE.

Tignanello · My dog name is, Sasha!

WYSIWYG wrote:
Well, if a boy can pretend to be a girl and a white person can pretend to be black, then I guess the sky is the limit! - Lady Gaga Snerd

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Does anyone know a good way to get Dr Pepper out of a keyboard? If I turn this laptop in after having it only two days I'm probably going to be in trouble.

Use a straw! Hate to waste that Dr. Pepper.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

Symbolism over substance. Let's eliminate FLAGS. And, somehow that solves a problem. Uh huh.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Symbols are powerful things...

flan

FNW · Guru

Got to love this administration. NOT!

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

When public correctness begins to impacting free market, we have a problem. A huge problem.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

I'm actually MORE inclined to shop at Wal-Mart now.

flan

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

flan327 wrote:
I'm actually MORE inclined to shop at Wal-Mart now.

flan

Right over your head. Not surprising.

Tinydancer · Guru

She won't get upset until they stop selling rainbow flags because only gay people not Southerners have rights in her eyes.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

lilyofcourse wrote:
flan327 wrote:
I'm actually MORE inclined to shop at Wal-Mart now.

flan
Right over your head. Not surprising.

No, I just DISAGREE with you, Lily. Stop inferring that I'm stupid.

flan

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

flan327 wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:
flan327 wrote:
I'm actually MORE inclined to shop at Wal-Mart now.

flan
Right over your head. Not surprising.
No, I just DISAGREE with you, Lily. Stop inferring that I'm stupid.
flan

Products are being taken off shelves, off market. Not just flags. Toys, dishes, place mats, clothing. This isn't just about not selling.

This is getting into not producing products. Which leads to people losing jobs. Which leads to less money going into the economy.

You see a surface situation. You basically think this band aid will take care of an amputation.

Political correctness should not impact our free market.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

lilyofcourse wrote:
flan327 wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:
flan327 wrote:
I'm actually MORE inclined to shop at Wal-Mart now.

flan
Right over your head. Not surprising.
No, I just DISAGREE with you, Lily. Stop inferring that I'm stupid.
flan
Products are being taken off shelves, off market. Not just flags. Toys, dishes, place mats, clothing. This isn't just about not selling.
This is getting into not producing products. Which leads to people losing jobs. Which leads to less money going into the economy.
You see a surface situation. You basically think this band aid will take care of an amputation.
Political correctness should not impact our free market.

I don't care. Remove the racist crap & make other things.

flan

Ohfour · Hooker

And you think that's going to stop people from being racist? Do you think the flag CAUSES racism? Trust me, because of this, racial acceptance has been set back a good 30 years. You don't get to tell people what they can or cannot buy based on you feeling hurt.

It's going to be worse now than ever. Trust me on this...

-- Edited by Ohfour on Wednesday 24th of June 2015 02:23:33 PM

Ohfour · Hooker

Written by a black friend of mine:

Y'all see where I'm going with this? Yeah...would be nice to remove flags, etc but ain't gonna matter if the mindset isn't changed...

Example...Nashville is a very segregated city...only because people self impose it...many couldn't comprehend that I easily went from a Black middle class area, rolled through the hood & passed one of the roughest projects (Dodge City) to get to the Vanderbilt area for yoga...where yeah, I'm probably gonna be the only Black in the studio....my parents taught & exposed us to many things & to adapt as needed...& that we're not limited...

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

The confederate flag is now a martyr.

Ohfour · Hooker

Yep!

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Ohfour wrote:
And you think that's going to stop people from being racist? Do you think the flag CAUSES racism? Trust me, because of this, racial acceptance has been set back a good 30 years. You don't get to tell people what they can or cannot buy based on you feeling hurt.

It's going to be worse now than ever. Trust me on this...

-- Edited by Ohfour on Wednesday 24th of June 2015 02:23:33 PM

It's not about feeling "hurt."

It's sending a message that racist merchandise is not A-okay.

Do I think it will change anything? No, but I like it anyway.

flan

-- Edited by flan327 on Wednesday 24th of June 2015 02:35:45 PM