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Arizona governor says he wants to yank Nike's tax breaks over sneaker controversy

Some conservatives are mad because Nike was going to sell shoes with the Betsy Ross flag on them and now aren't going to sell said shoes?

Betsy Ross?

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Another liberal crock of poop. Barack Obama used the Betsy Ross flag at his inauguration. Now it is racist? Haha.

Progressives are now eating their own and guaranteeing a Trump re election. This is just so much fun, I guffaw at every stupid thing progressives do to look bizarre.
 

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How weak are progressive sensibilities now? Triggered by a flag President Obama was proud to fly at his inauguration? Freaking crybabies! Pansies! Girly men!

There was no issue until conservatives threw a massive hissy fit. So yeah, freaking crybabies.
 

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How weak are progressive sensibilities now? Triggered by a flag President Obama was proud to fly at his inauguration? Freaking crybabies! Pansies! Girly men!

One person associated with Nike didn't like the idea of using the flag. No one cared except for the snowflakes on the right because that one person happened to be Colin Kaepernick. The crybabies, pansies, and girly men on the right were so hurt by the design of their shoes that they started boycotting and burning them.

How can you call anyone girly when you are on the side that conforms to a feminine stereotype of caring so much about shoes to an extreme.
 
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You mean the conservatives who want to punish nike for deciding not to produce a shoe?

Seriously, Nike was informed that White Supremacist groups have been using the betsy ross flag as a symbol for the "Good Old Days" when blacks were Owned and Women had no vote.

Nike decided, On Their Own, that they don't want to feed those particular trolls- neither the white supremacists- with whom they don't want their brand associated... NOR the over-reactionary folks on the left who might make a big magilla out of it.

Given that the black community represents a share of the sneaker industry way out of proportion to their demographic... it was a smart business move.

End of story... or it WOULD have been until the Reactionary Right decided to make a big deal of this and ask all their racists to boycott Nike.
Nike is not gonna back down, because white male racists are a TINY demographic in terms sneaker sales. For every white boy who hates blacks enough to give a damn about this story, there are 4 white boys who love rap music and will buy Nike regardless.

So- the Actual snowflakes... the ones whose precious panties got all in a twist, are the ones calling for LEGISLATIVE REPRISAL for a marketing decision by a private corporation.


Sorry racists... but when you decide to co-opt art, be that a flag with 13 stars, or a cartoon of a green frog, to represent your fucked up, petty, and fearful world view, don't be surprised if the rest of society says, " aw, SHIT, now we can't even sell Kermit the Frog T Shirts.."
 
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Another liberal crock of poop. Barack Obama used the Betsy Ross flag at his inauguration. Now it is racist? Haha.

Progressives are now eating their own and guaranteeing a Trump re election. This is just so much fun, I guffaw at every stupid thing progressives do to look bizarre.
Have someone read this and explain it to you, grandpa.

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Just a thread for the news that's so stupid that you don't know what to do with it anymore.

Arizona governor says he wants to yank Nike's tax breaks over sneaker controversy

Some conservatives are mad because Nike was going to sell shoes with the Betsy Ross flag on them and now aren't going to sell said shoes?

Betsy Ross?

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Exactly. Read something about this days ago, with even the Trump stooge and saboteur, McConnel, chiming in:

Mitch McConnell Weighs In On Nike Controversy: 'I'll Make The First Order' | HuffPost

Much like the shit storm that arose from the USUAL SUSPECTS when confederate flags and monuments came under scrutiny. All that stuff about how it was never about racism, but all about "heritage." Right.

Only, if they REALLY have such love for those flags, and how it "wasn't supposed to mean racism," then why the fuck did they remain complicit and SILENT when racists and bigots USED their flag as support and symbols for hate, racism, bigotry and intolerance??

Why didn't McConnel and the rest of them put up EQUAL furor when separatists, supremacists, fascists, and neo-Nazi's carried their stars and bars, and Betsy Ross flag along side a fucking SWASTIKA, the symbol of Nazi Germany...

the same flag carried by an army that embroiled the entire world in a war over the ideology of Aryan supremacy, the same flag that presided over the murder 4 million Jews, and the same flag carried by those who fired upon allied forces at Normady??

Where are our so-called "patriots" when bigots, racists, and supremacists desecrate those "symbols of heritage" via THEIR actions, associations, and ideology?


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