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Banning update
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Date: June 24, 2015 09:46PM
Statues on the Austin campus of Robert E. Lee, who commanded the Confederate army, and Albert Sidney Johnston, a Confederate general who died during the Civil War, were also vandalized in recent days, according to reports.
Students at the university have started an online petition advocating removal of the statues, saying "it is impossible to reach the full potential of an inclusive and progressive learning institution while putting an idol of our darkest days on a pedestal."
A Confederate monument in Charleston, S.C., was vandalized this week with the words "Black Lives Matter," according to the Post and Courier newspaper.
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Warner Bros. just stopped licensing another of pop culture’s most visible uses of the Confederate flag — toy replicas of the General Lee, an orange Dodge Charger from “The Dukes of Hazzard’’ — as retailers like Amazon and Walmart have finally backed away from selling merchandise with that racist symbol.
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Online retail giant Amazon’s Monday decision to ban the sale of merchandise depicting the Confederate flag has many Americans scratching their heads, as a quick review of Amazon’s site reveals the company still sells Nazi flags.
For just $7.35, Amazon shoppers can pick up this Nazi SS flag, depicting the symbol of Adolf Hitler’s “Schutzstaffel” who helped carry out Germany’s annihilation of 6,000,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
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The world is laughing at the US. Bullshit reactionary decisions. I'm not opposed to taking the rebel flag down from state institutions, but things are getting ridiculous. Ban anything and everything that is offensive. I say ban GerryTard.
Students at the university have started an online petition advocating removal of the statues, saying "it is impossible to reach the full potential of an inclusive and progressive learning institution while putting an idol of our darkest days on a pedestal."
A Confederate monument in Charleston, S.C., was vandalized this week with the words "Black Lives Matter," according to the Post and Courier newspaper.
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Warner Bros. just stopped licensing another of pop culture’s most visible uses of the Confederate flag — toy replicas of the General Lee, an orange Dodge Charger from “The Dukes of Hazzard’’ — as retailers like Amazon and Walmart have finally backed away from selling merchandise with that racist symbol.
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Online retail giant Amazon’s Monday decision to ban the sale of merchandise depicting the Confederate flag has many Americans scratching their heads, as a quick review of Amazon’s site reveals the company still sells Nazi flags.
For just $7.35, Amazon shoppers can pick up this Nazi SS flag, depicting the symbol of Adolf Hitler’s “Schutzstaffel” who helped carry out Germany’s annihilation of 6,000,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
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The world is laughing at the US. Bullshit reactionary decisions. I'm not opposed to taking the rebel flag down from state institutions, but things are getting ridiculous. Ban anything and everything that is offensive. I say ban GerryTard.