Posted on 07/08/2015 4:40:26 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
Wal-Mart corporate spokesman Brian Nick said the reason West Morgan High graduate Aaron Browder was not able to purchase his senior class ring with a generic Rebels mascot is because design features included the Confederate flag in the background and foreground.
The nickname for West Morgan's athletic teams is Rebels.
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Time to rename them the conformist and issue rings with a white flag. No wait that would be racist, better make it a rainbow flag.
Thought Crimes in the totalitarian State of America.
Wal-Mart is dead to me.
its fascinating how WalMart seems to ‘step in’ all these silly ‘cultural issues’
is this just because WM is such a large and successful company (so that it is almost everywhere in our society anyway)
or is there something special within the WM company or corporate culture that tends to lead it into conter-productive and trivial ‘cultural’ conflicts such as this?
just curious
Not much place left to go. These corporations, with the gov, are corralling us in.
No excuse, I have to stop buying from them.
You’re right. So what do we do next?
Yet Walmart will sell him Che Guevara posters and shirts.
They all cave-in and buckle-under to the slightest whiff of the Left's cultural Marxist politically correct pronouncements and mandates and scramble to get on the Left's totalitarian band wagon as soon as possible, customers be damned. I thought the Left hated Walmart? I'll bet the majority of their customers are conservatives and not Birkenstock-wearing libs. They've done it with gay marriage and bashing Christians, they are doing it right now to Donald Trump for speaking the truth about the problems some Mexican illegals bring with them. It is no longer acceptable to have your own opinion in this country if your'e not marching lock-step with the radical socialist liberals totalitarian viewpoint.
The problem we have in this country is not the Confederate flag, but these companies that take their marching orders from the liberal Left.
The unspoken secret is most of these billionaires and company CEO’s are crony capitalists/socialists. They despise the free market and use the gov to kill the upstart competition.
Claim to be gay and sue them for discrimination!
How dare you refuse to serve a customer!
Many of the companies and board members ARE the left.
Could be they worry about who's going to buy their stock shares and loan them money. They may have their hand in other businesses, too. And they are all over the world. So the people who actually shop there are only one group the company has to worry about -- and maybe not the most worrisome. If you shop there because it's cheap, you may go on shopping there even if they adopt some policy you don't like, but other organized groups will make trouble if they want to.
I’m beginning to see the light ie accept reality
there remains the curious fact that sometimes these big companies do stupid things (especially from a customer relations or public relations or marketing perspective)...
here all WM had to do was make the kid his ring, nobody would have had any occasion to object... and WM would have had a presumably happy customer
instead someone at WM decided to refuse the customer’s business...... and a lot of other people are left wondering whether to shop at WM or take their money elsewhere
all this when no controversy was necessary in the first place
oh well, Sam Walton is long deceased so...often successful firms go downhill after their founders leave
I understand the family is quite poor.
One would think that, after going after the main symbol, they would let the tiny one slide. These fools are relentless.
The funny thing is the people Walmart is trying to placate will continue to shop there no matter what.
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