Who Knew It Was So Loved: Confederate Flag Sales Soar Across The Nation. Amazon Sales Up 2,300%

[tigerred59]

Sales are up over 3,000 percent now.

Listen.

That sound you hear is the sound of thousands of Chinese sewing machines cranking out Confederate flags.

LOLOLOL, the communist country that took your manufactoring jobs, your middle class linage, is now cranking up cheap shit for a buck, that you will buy for 20 bucks.....The American Stupid...gotta love em'

 

[mudwhistle]

June 23, 2015
So Now I Am Responsible for the Charleston Shooting
By Jack Cashill

Articles So Now I Am Responsible for the Charleston Shooting
I had no intention of commenting on the recent shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina church. There were two good reasons why. One was that I have always found it unseemly to exploit a genuine tragedy, especially before the bodies are buried and the event gains some historical perspective.

The second was that the act was so anomalous. In the highly racialized Obama era, there have been several black shooters who turned their wrath on multiple non-black victims – California’s Christopher Dorner, the Navy Yard’s Aaron Alexis, Omar Thornton in Hartford – but I could recall no instance in my lifetime in which a white shooter had done the same to black victims. I was not sure what useful generalization I could pull from so rare a phenomenon.

Alas, the Huffington Post, in the person of veteran propagandist Terry Krepel, forced my hand. In an article published Monday, “Did Right-Wing Media Influence Dylann Roof,” Krepel cites me first and foremost among Roof’s influences. For the record, he also cites WND and the American Thinker.

As proof of my guilt, Krepel quotes a passage from Roof’s manifesto. “The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case,” Roof writes. “It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words ‘black on White crime’ into Google, and I have never been the same since that day.”

“Where have we heard before that the death of Trayvon Martin was justified,” asks Krepel, “and blacks are nothing but thugs and criminals?” Before proceeding, I have to ask, who anywhere ever said or implied that “blacks are nothing but thugs and criminals”? Are there no editors at the Huffington Post? No libel lawyers?

If the reader is wondering what kind of pathology drives a person to write a sentence so obviously twisted, he or she can find the answer in my soon to be released book, Scarlet Letters: The Ever-Increasing Intolerance of the Cultural Left.

Krepel, unfortunately, could be the poster child for a new and dangerous breed of zealots I call “neo-puritans.” If the adultery charge against The Scarlet Letter’s Hester Prynne was valid, the charges against sinners today rarely ever are. “Even when you have no idea you’re committing a hate crime, chances are you still are,” Mark Steyn opined after Canadian neo-puritans dragged him before that nation’s official inquisitors.

Neo-puritans exaggerate the sins of the targeted or concoct them out of whole cloth. In either case, like Hawthorne’s Puritans, they publicly brand the sinner to render him or her, in Hawthorne’s words, “the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point.”

In an appalling rush to judgment, the media slapped George Zimmerman with a scarlet R for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, and now Krepel slaps me with one for defending Zimmerman in my book If I Had A Son. In one of the more egregious guilt-by-association gambits in recent memory, Krepel then links my defense of a transparently innocent man to the Charleston shooting. Let me ask again, “Does the HuffPo have no editors? No lawyers?”

Krepel takes particular offense that I challenged Zimmerman’s scarlet R. My most grievous sin was to say in a TV interview that prosecuting Zimmerman on civil rights charges “would be like going after Nelson Mandela on civil rights, or Mother Teresa.”

There was a reason I said this, one that the major media, let alone Krepel, have refused to acknowledge. A year ago, the Florida courts denied Zimmerman the right to sue NBC for libel. The reason cited was that Zimmerman made himself a public figure by “voluntarily injecting his views into the public controversy surrounding race relations and public safety in Sanford.”

Zimmerman “injected his views” by working with the NAACP to launch a public protest over the failure of the Sanford Police Department to arrest the son of a white officer who had beaten a homeless black man.

Unfortunately for Zimmerman, his work on behalf of the homeless man Sherman Ware was not nearly “public” enough to stop the media from branding him. I could find almost no mention of this character-defining event in the major media, not even in the book NBC’s legal analyst Lisa Bloom wrote about the case, Suspicion Nation.

Denying him his past, the media have continued to portray Zimmerman as an angry, mean-spirited racist. To accomplish this, they ignore much in addition to Zimmerman’s work with the NAACP on the Sherman Ware case. This includes the exhaustive FBI report that cleared him of the racism charge, his mentoring of two black teens, his black prom date, his black great-grandfather, his Peruvian mother, and his support for Barack Obama. To Krepel and progressive neo-puritans like him, Zimmerman’s history matters no more than does his innocence. He is nothing more, says Krepel, than a “habitual criminal.”

With little resistance from their passive coreligionists, the neo-puritans have made themselves the punitive arm of the progressive movement.

Over time, they have shown less interest in celebrating the many colors of the multicultural rainbow than they have in condemning those who resisted the celebration. The accusers insist that resistance is born out of hatred – of blacks, of gays, of immigrants, of Muslims, of women, of poor people, even, yes, of mother earth. “Hate” stands as the umbrella sin for all dissenters.

Indeed, if there is one shared ritual among the progressive subcults, it is the imputation of “hate” to the less enlightened. And as those of us on the right know, there is no surer way of being branded hateful than by telling the truth.

Hawthorne described his seventeenth-century ancestors as “being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived.” As Krepel proves anew, Hawthorne’s Puritans were the picture of tolerance compared to the neo-puritans who flourish today. And they were a hell of a lot more honest.

 

[tigerred59]

The south has already risen. Growth in population, major businesses, quality education and quality of life has soared.

Unless by "rise again" you mean another secession in order to reinstate slavery and the subjugation of blacks. In that case it will never happen.

i think you're painting an overly rosy picture of the south.

but can't agree more with the second part.

While there are parts of the south that do not fit with my description, many do. And that is where I see the south rising again (or having risen).

LOLOLOLOL...the south rising?68% of southerners are on some form of government aide, 68%. The south gets more in federal dollars than any state in the union. High school drop outs, dominate the south, teen pregnancy, dominates the south. Poverty, income inequality, unemployment, child abuse, illiteracy all dominate factors of southerners and they're rising again?? I sure hope so!!

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

The south has already risen. Growth in population, major businesses, quality education and quality of life has soared.

Unless by "rise again" you mean another secession in order to reinstate slavery and the subjugation of blacks. In that case it will never happen.

i think you're painting an overly rosy picture of the south.

but can't agree more with the second part.

While there are parts of the south that do not fit with my description, many do. And that is where I see the south rising again (or having risen).

sure, but you won't see many people seriously lauding the education of the former confederate states.

Four of the top ten schools are located in Texas. Biased much?
See the 2015 Best High Schools - US News

 

[ogibillm]

The south has already risen. Growth in population, major businesses, quality education and quality of life has soared.

Unless by "rise again" you mean another secession in order to reinstate slavery and the subjugation of blacks. In that case it will never happen.

i think you're painting an overly rosy picture of the south.

but can't agree more with the second part.

While there are parts of the south that do not fit with my description, many do. And that is where I see the south rising again (or having risen).

sure, but you won't see many people seriously lauding the education of the former confederate states.

Four of the top ten schools are located in Texas. Biased much?
See the 2015 Best High Schools - US News

reality much?
Report Card on American Education - State Education Rankings
gee, who is it that makes up most of the bottom 10?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

The south has already risen. Growth in population, major businesses, quality education and quality of life has soared.

Unless by "rise again" you mean another secession in order to reinstate slavery and the subjugation of blacks. In that case it will never happen.

i think you're painting an overly rosy picture of the south.

but can't agree more with the second part.

While there are parts of the south that do not fit with my description, many do. And that is where I see the south rising again (or having risen).

sure, but you won't see many people seriously lauding the education of the former confederate states.

Four of the top ten schools are located in Texas. Biased much?
See the 2015 Best High Schools - US News

reality much?
Report Card on American Education - State Education Rankings
gee, who is it that makes up most of the bottom 10?

ALEC? They're kind of sketchy.
And it doesnt change the fact that four of the top ten schools are in Texas.
And of course you have to account for all the ignorant ass illegals so having four in the top ten is an accomplishment.

 

[ogibillm]

i think you're painting an overly rosy picture of the south.

but can't agree more with the second part.

While there are parts of the south that do not fit with my description, many do. And that is where I see the south rising again (or having risen).

sure, but you won't see many people seriously lauding the education of the former confederate states.

Four of the top ten schools are located in Texas. Biased much?
See the 2015 Best High Schools - US News

reality much?
Report Card on American Education - State Education Rankings
gee, who is it that makes up most of the bottom 10?

ALEC? They're kind of sketchy.
And it doesnt change the fact that four of the top ten schools are in Texas.
And of course you have to account for all the ignorant ass illegals so having four in the top ten is an accomplishment.

great, texas has 4 good schools. hang your hat on that for proof that education in the south isn't sub par in general.

 

[Mace]

Nothing Americans hate more than being told what to do. Wtf you mean I can't buy a racist symbol at Wal-Mart, them fucks, buy all the flags.

Your avatar is next, that flag stands for intolerance.

Next to stand atop a state house memorial mb.

 

[jknowgood]

Nothing Americans hate more than being told what to do. Wtf you mean I can't buy a racist symbol at Wal-Mart, them fucks, buy all the flags.

Your avatar is next, that flag stands for intolerance.

Next to stand atop a state house memorial mb.

With our queer ass president, you are probably right.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Liberals aren't intent on stopping at getting rid of the battle flag, they want to remove any statue of Confederate generals like Robert E Lee and replace memorials with statues of MLK. Well Arlington Cemetery is on the grounds of The Robert E Lee estate. If the United States is going to remove statues and war memorials of the Confederate soldiers then maybe they should remove all of the gravesfrom Arlington national Cemetery, blow out the Eternal Flame on Kennedy's grave and return Arlington back to the Roberty Lee estate.

you've gone from zero to crazy in no time flat.

Liberals are calling for the Jefferson Memorial to be dismantled because he owned slaves. That's batshit crazy.