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by Mary Chastain30 Jun 2015540

Corporate chain Walmart has apologized after a store in Louisiana baked a cake bearing the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) flag following its refusal to bake a cake with a Confederate flag.

“An associate in a local store did not know what the design meant and made a mistake,” a Walmart spokesman told ABC News. “The cake should not have been made and we apologize.”

Charles Netzhammer went to his local Walmart to order a cake with the Confederate flag that stated, “Heritage Not Hate.” The bakery refused to do so since the company ordered a ban on the flag after a gunman murdered nine people at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Netzhammer later drove back to that Walmart and asked for a cake with the ISIS flag.

 

“I went back yesterday and managed to get an ISIS battle flag printed,” he said on a video he posted to YouTube. “ISIS happens to be somebody who we’re fighting against right now who are killing our men and boys overseas and are beheading Christians.”

He walked back to a table and showed the audience a white cake box.

“That’s an ISIS battle flag cake that anybody can go buy at Walmart,” he said. “But you can’t buy a Confederate flag toy, with like, say, a Dukes of Hazzard car.”

He then showed the rejection letter he received from Walmart over the Confederate flag. He moved down the table, where he presented the camera with the receipt for the ISIS cake.

“So, Walmart, can you please explain why you are alienating southern Americans with this trash that you allow to be sold in your store, while at the same point, Confederate flag memorabilia is not allowed?” he asked at the end of the video.

After the massacre by a white supremacist in Charleston, a handful of companies announced they will no longer sell the Confederate flag. Walmart was one of the stores.

“We never want to offend anyone with the products that we offer,” stated Walmart. “We have taken steps to remove all items promoting the Confederate flag from our assortment — whether in our stores or on our website



-- Edited by Lady Gaga Snerd on Wednesday 1st of July 2015 06:51:18 AM

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OK, I am confused. You HAVE to bake a gay cake. But, you can't bake a Confederate Cake. But, you can bake an Isis cake or err...........
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Cake gets all the hate.

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Who orders an ISIS cake?

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It was a set up.

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flan327 wrote:

It was a set up.

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OF COURSE he set them up.

I'm certain that it won't happen again, that by now Walmart has sent a picture to every place that could be fooled like this.

 

Probably Costco will have sent out the picture(s) also.

 



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He doesn't deny it was a set up. Kind of like the same - sex couples that purposely go to Christian bakers and set them up so they can sue them.

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Lawyerlady wrote:

He doesn't deny it was a set up. Kind of like the same - sex couples that purposely go to Christian bakers and set them up so they can sue them.

That just confirms to me that those people who do these things are fcuktards.  They are just stupid and that they don't do this because they are gay/straight/christian/atheist/man/woman, but out to screw people over because they can and it was easier than faking a slip and fall at the Hyatt or Holiday Inn. 



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He does make an excellent point, though.  Walmart simply jumped on the popular cause of the moment when they banned the confederate flag.  And they did so without any thought to the other hateful things they sell.  It's plain ridiculous.



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Unlike the couple who set up a owner of a private business to hurt them , this guy was trying to make a point.

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I really only know of one case where money was awarded.

The lesbian couple that went to a bakery that had made a wedding cake for one woman's mother. That was the one that where the damages were in the area of $150,000. Whether they knew the baker was Christian and would not make the cake, or the liked the cake at her mothers wedding I do not know.

The photographer lawyer fees were awarded and waived by the couple.

I think Masterpiece the owner had to train his employees on the law.

Not sure what the result was the florist who was a friend of the couple, or the wedding chapel owner.

I think there is maybe ten incidents that I have heard of in the past decade.

McDonalds probably has more lawsuits for making people fat.

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cadiver wrote:

I really only know of one case where money was awarded.

The lesbian couple that went to a bakery that had made a wedding cake for one woman's mother. That was the one that where the damages were in the area of $150,000. Whether they knew the baker was Christian and would not make the cake, or the liked the cake at her mothers wedding I do not know.

The photographer lawyer fees were awarded and waived by the couple.

I think Masterpiece the owner had to train his employees on the law.

Not sure what the result was the florist who was a friend of the couple, or the wedding chapel owner.

I think there is maybe ten incidents that I have heard of in the past decade.

McDonalds probably has more lawsuits for making people fat.

And yet those 10 lawsuits affect each and every one of us... 



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It wasn't about law suits. It was about not knowing what they are talking about, true discrimination and the decline of OUR country.

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Ohfour wrote:
cadiver wrote:

I really only know of one case where money was awarded.

The lesbian couple that went to a bakery that had made a wedding cake for one woman's mother. That was the one that where the damages were in the area of $150,000. Whether they knew the baker was Christian and would not make the cake, or the liked the cake at her mothers wedding I do not know.

The photographer lawyer fees were awarded and waived by the couple.

I think Masterpiece the owner had to train his employees on the law.

Not sure what the result was the florist who was a friend of the couple, or the wedding chapel owner.

I think there is maybe ten incidents that I have heard of in the past decade.

McDonalds probably has more lawsuits for making people fat.

And yet those 10 lawsuits affect each and every one of us... 

Maybe I'm just tired and missing something, but I don't see how any of them are affecting me. 

 

Other than reading about them here, that is.

I'm more concerned with the price of Vancomycin.



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My friends cannot get married by a JoP. Yes, that affects me and all of her friends...

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Why not? I don't understand that.

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lilyofcourse wrote:

Why not? I don't understand that.

 Because the counties have banned all marriages performed by elected officials. That's the only way they can refuse gay marriages...its all or nothing...



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But a JoP isn't elected.

They apply, pay a fee and get a seal.

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lilyofcourse wrote:

But a JoP isn't elected.

They apply, pay a fee and get a seal.

 JoPs are elected here...



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Ah. Gotcha.

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