"Make sure your rebel Scum trash is AUTHENTIC!" Topic

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Some dipstick called 911 over Confederate flag?

"I was shaking and almost vomiting," he tells the paper

The caller complained that the Confederate items were "not authentic" and were replicas of flags and weapons.

We must eliminate anything and everything that might offend someone. Somewhere. Anyone. Anywhere.
We get the Rioter's Veto.

What is amazing is all the people who took this guy´s complaint seriously. All that moralizing was a nice touch as well. Sheesh.

WoW, what was really scary was the reader comments underneath, are we really living in the same country?

A shame there was no arrest for making a non-emergency 911 call.

I read 'Rebel Scum' and thought this was a Star Wars thread. Imagine my disappointment…..

My, my, those reader comments. Sure a lovely bunch.

Almost unbelievable stupidity. Almost…

Here's the flag I will now use for my rebs--

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Bait and switch! (I read "rebel scum" and was looking for SW stuff too)

Were these the Rebel Scum from 1776 ? The Whiskey
Rebellion ? Shay's Rebellion (Massachusetts)?
Bacon's Rebellion (Virginia) ?

Need a program to keep track of which Rebel Scum are from
what era….

Well, that's an excellent example of how to write a distorted article to push your (currently unpopular) point of view.

If you read the source articles, you get quite a different picture:

First, the emphasis of the complaint was not the Confederate memorabilia, but the Nazi items. The caller, whose grandmother was sent to a murder camp, found the sale of Stars of David that were worn by Jews under the Nazi regime to be offensive to the point of being traumatic.

If you really, really think that you would be OK with a parallel situation, you either suffer from a lack of imagination or you have mental/emotional issues. Suppose that your son was stabbed to death and someone was auctioning off the knife that killed him. Sure, you wouldn't be upset at all.

Second, the complaint about the Confederate memorabilia was that it was being sold as authentic, but that they were modern reproductions. If true, that's fraud.

So, what does Olaf Ekberg do? Turns the emphasis of the whole thing around into a "silly overreaction to a Confederate flag-see how silly all this anti Confederate stuff is-hysterical liberals" piece. At best, it's advocacy dressed up as reportage.

(And, yes, it should have been a call to the non-emergency number. Whatevs.)

"Second, the complaint about the Confederate memorabilia was that it was being sold as authentic, but that they were modern reproductions. If true, that's fraud."

Finding a "Made in China" label would be an obvious tipoff… ;-)

Here is another news story on the incident .

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It does appear that the complaint had more to do with the NAZI memorabilia.

I was more alarmed reading the hateful-crazy conspiracy- rants in the comments section of the article.

Here's the important thing. Racists connect the Nazis and the Confederates as 'their people'. Remember this when someone tells us the rebel flag is a harmless logo found on the roof of the General Lee.

This is still America and although I may not agree with the ideology I support the right to sell at the flea market or fly the thing in the yard if you want. Of course the HOA may have something to say about that.

Leadjunky--not disagreeing with you on the right to sell the stuff, however objectionable I may find it. I'm more offended by how the originally-cited article distorted the incident.

Mexican Jack makes a good point. Unfortunately, here in UK the red cross of Saint George has been adopted by some pretty repellent groups, such as the BNP. The question is: do those of us who are English and not racists simply abandon our flag to them? Suppose similar groups adopted the Stars and Stripes – actually, I saw a documentary on the Ku Klux Klan on television, and noted that many of their robes not only bore Confederate flags (no surprise there) but also the flag of the USA – what happens then?