From the post:
Confederate flag sales have since soared on Amazon.
From 3 days ago:
Is that like how caravan prices soared when Top Gear were destroying them on their show?
Am i missing something or does this article have 62 links that donāt go to the BooFlag thing?
Nope, youā're not missing anything.
62 links. No link to the actual story.
Wallmartās stopped selling flag-bearing merchandise. Guns are, of course, still up for grabs.
āGreat minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss peopleāā¦and complete fucking idiots obsess about flags.
ā Michael Kriege
I didnāt say that thing you quoted. Please check again.
is a quote about people
āNot Snoop Dog
Sorry, I just quoted your quote, I didnāt see it in the article first time. Iāve corrected it.
Itās probably because of hayfever and the antihistamines and pseudoephedrine Iām on to manage it.
I figured. The discourse platform has a couple āfeaturesā like that. No offense taken, obviously. 
I too have updated my post, so that what I was saying is more obvious. My bad, really.
The speed at which this is happening is baffling to me. I canāt say Iām terribly bothered by it. (Although in my experience there are more than a few people who are being honest when they say āheritage, not hateāāI think theyāre naive, but I believe that theyāre genuinely not racists.) But itās hard to believe that a single Confederate flag flying over a war memorial near the South Carolina State House (not at the State House itself, as was widely reported, and the flag in question had no pulley and wasnāt designed to be run up and down) would be the thing to set off a near-instant nationwide business backlash, when decades of protests and vitriol werenāt enough.
Iām not defending the silly thing, and you donāt need to remind me about the people who were killed or the politics of the scumbag who did it. Itās justā¦weird that itās happening this way.
I think itās about time. The cultural discourse has been ripening on the vine for the last couple of years as more and more footage of cops slaughtering unarmed black people have been going viral. Eventually the scaleās gotta tip in the other direction.
Plus there was that totally excellent flick from last year, Selma, which mightāve helped tip the balanceā¦ watched it last night. Brilliant.
As for the good ole boy flag, Iām surprised I had to do a deliberate image search to see this for the first time:
That photo! Oy! Itās like ebola raped AIDS and nine months later that came out.
At least itās more honest about what it representsā¦
- A flag is the symbolic representation of an idea.
- An individual who obsesses about flags is a person.
I do believe youāve missed the point of your own quote twice over in one short post.
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