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Old 06-21-2020, 07:36 PM
 
Location: Just over the horizon
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Of course we all understand his post. It's just fun diverting and making him explain it over and over because he doesn't understand why it is offensive.


I understand that the Left have taken it upon themselves to decide after 100 years that it's offensive.

When nobody else thought it was.

As if someone in high authority granted y'all the title of sole arbiters and Grand Pobahs of all that is offensive.


So....if you want to make it about Aunt Jemima specifically......

Tell me what SPECIFICALLY is offensive about her image on the packaging and why.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:38 PM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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Why are you offended by the free market at work? Company decides to rebrand their product, don't buy it if you don't like it.
Yep but if this was a business owner denying gays business posters like FatBob would be waving the free market flag. People like him talk a big game but can't back it up.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:46 PM
 
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Wait until they see Land-O-Lakes butter!
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:54 PM
 
Location: Honolulu, HI
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As a black man, I have to pick and choose my battles very carefully. If I was offended at everything, I wouldn’t be able to leave the damn house without having a stroke.

This notion that black Americans are oppressed by maple syrup, military bases, statues, and confederate flags while Africans in other countries are living off 5 cents a day is the most absurd Black American self-victimization nitpick and privilege I’ve ever seen in my life.

People die to live in America and we’re whining over some maple syrup.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:55 PM
 
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I understand that the Left have taken it upon themselves to decide after 100 years that it's offensive.

When nobody else thought it was.

As if someone in high authority granted y'all the title of sole arbiters and Grand Pobahs of all that is offensive.


So....if you want to make it about Aunt Jemima specifically......

Tell me what SPECIFICALLY is offensive about her image on the packaging and why.

Ahh, bless your little naive heart. Your concern for your Aunt Jemima is commendable.
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Old 06-21-2020, 08:00 PM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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Wait until they see Land-O-Lakes butter!
Sadly Native Americans are overlooked in their oppression. Just look at the national response to Covid in the Navajo nation
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Old 06-21-2020, 09:02 PM
 
Location: Just over the horizon
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Yep but if this was a business owner denying gays business posters like FatBob would be waving the free market flag. People like him talk a big game but can't back it up.



The free market doesn't include extortion by the force of government.

The free market is when enough people refuse to do business with a company and they either change their ways or fold of their own free will.

The free market is succeeding or failing on your own merit.

Not being forced by a Government backed lynch mob to provide your labor against your will.
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Old 06-21-2020, 09:18 PM
 
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Sadly Native Americans are overlooked in their oppression. Just look at the national response to Covid in the Navajo nation
Aren't they safer being isolated on the reservations?
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Old 06-21-2020, 09:22 PM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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The free market doesn't include extortion by the force of government.

The free market is when enough people refuse to do business with a company and they either change their ways or fold of their own free will.

The free market is succeeding or failing on your own merit.

Not being forced by a Government backed lynch mob to provide your labor against your will.
Quaker Oats wasn't "forced by a government back lynch mob". No proof of it. The Christian Science Monitor couldn't even directly link it to BLM, just saying it is the latest in a series of dominos to fall...
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Societ...es-Aunt-Jemima
https://www.inc.com/sonia-thompson/t...should-do.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture...brand-1016380/
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Old 06-21-2020, 09:24 PM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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Aren't they safer being isolated on the reservations?
Not when many don't have access to water... Not when it is against Navajo culture to have gatherings of 10 or more.... Not when they don't have access to many intensive care unit ready hospitals...
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