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Post by Graveyardbride on Jun 30, 2015 21:44:08 GMT -5
Need a Cake Featuring the ISIS Flag? Try Wal-MartSLIDELL, La. – The Wal-Mart corporation has apologized on behalf of a local store that refused to bake a cake featuring a Confederate flag, but honored a request from the same man when he asked for a cake decorated with the flag of the Islamic State. Chuck Netzhammer made the retail giant look like a giant fool Friday when he posted a YouTube video showing an ISIS flag cake he’d purchased at his local Wal-Mart. He also showed a rejection letter he’d received in response to his request for a cake decorated with the Confederate flag with the inscription: “Heritage not Hate.”
In the video, Nethammer asks: “Wal-Mart, can you please explain why you’re alienating Southern Americans with this trash that you allow to be sold at your store, while at the same point, Confederate flag memorabilia is not allowed?”
Wal-Mart’s response? Basically, it amounted to: “We didn’t know any better.”
“We made the decision to stop selling Confederate flag related items promoting the flag’s image,” Wal-Mart spokesman Randy Hargrove wrote in an email to the Daily Caller. “For that reason we did not make the cake. [Netzhammer] brought in the other image of ISIS and really, what happened was our associate didn’t recognize what that image was and what it meant or it wouldn’t have been made.”
Well, it might not come as a surprise that a Wal-Mart cake decorator didn’t recognize an ISIS flag. The Christian-hating terrorist group probably hasn’t made much of an inroad in the bayous – yet. However, the same associate clearly recognized the Confederate flag. As to “what it meant”? Netzhammer’s request was, “Heritage not Hate.” But, apparently, Wal-Mart has decided it knows best.
So we have a major chain store happy to bake a cake displaying a terrorist flag that represents bombings, beheadings, slavery and other atrocities, but that same store refuses to sell a Dukes of Hazzards model car because it features the Confederate flag!Source: Joe Saunders, BizPack, June 29, 2015.
Note: I would have posted a link to the video, but, apparently, there are so many viewers the link isn't working at this time. If I find another link, I will post it.
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Post by jane on Jun 30, 2015 23:14:02 GMT -5
I'm in my 70s now and have never seen people so eager to blame some inanimate object for a person's bad behavior as they are today. It was back during the 70s and 80s that people first started excusing bad behavior in children by claiming they had ADD or some other made-up condition instead of holding them responsible for their actions. The boy who did the shooting was allowed to drop out of school when he was in the 9th grade, so it's obvious that his parents weren't that concerned about him. He was 21 years old and he didn't have a job and he wasn't going to school to learn a trade, so why were his parents allowing him to sit around all day and surf the internet and play video games instead of doing something with his life? I was born in Ohio, so no one can accuse me of being a discontented Southerner, but neither the Confederate flag nor the gun caused him to walk into that church and shoot those people and by blaming the flag, guns or anything else but our society for what happened is not going to accomplish anything. People need to stop using a piece of cloth as a scapegoat and look a lot deeper than a flag to explain what drove this boy to do what he did and Wal-Mart and other companies that are refusing to sell the flag are just adding fuel to the fire because they're detracting from the real problem.
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Post by kitty on Jul 2, 2015 2:48:14 GMT -5
Walmart hires immigrants, so I'm not surprises that the employee didn't recognize a terrorist symbol. Walmart also doesn't let employees work 40 hours a week, so that they don't qualify for health insurance and other benefits. People should boycott Walmart. I never go there and I can't understand why anybody else does. It's not worth supporting that kind of store just to save a few dollars.
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Post by natalie on Jul 2, 2015 11:02:43 GMT -5
I agree, I mean, removing a flag won't stop people from engaging in racism or terrorism.
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Post by pat on Jul 4, 2015 12:41:54 GMT -5
Wal-Mart is an eyesore. Huge, ugly stores and huge parking lots with no trees are one of the symbols of what's wrong with America.
It's hard to believe that instead of addressing the real issues, people are attacking the Confederate flag. As Jane pointed out, Dylan Roof's parents let him quit school in the 9th grade, he was unemployed and instead of forcing him to get a job, his parents let him sit around all day doing nothing. As the Bible says: "Idle hands are the devil's tools".
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