Posted on 09/19/2017 5:46:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A woman in Texas berated Hobby Lobby last week for selling cotton as a decorative home accessory.
This decor is WRONG on SO many levels. There is nothing decorative
about raw cotton... A commodity which was gained at the expense of
African-American slaves.
A little sensitivity goes a long way.
PLEASE REMOVE THIS "decor".
Daniell Rider posted her complaint to the craft store’s Facebook page:
There is nothing decorative about raw cotton. A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves. A little sensitivity goes a long way.The post received close to 15,000 shares and 160,000 comments. The user, Daniell Rider, then received backlash for her sensitivity and responded to her critics:
PLEASE REMOVE this decor.
All those who are offended by cotton being a decoration need to quit buying any product made of cotton!And other users quickly came to her defense, one adding:
What difference does it make if it’s a decoration or part of a product. You’re being hypocritical if your offended by cotton being a decoration and not offended by any product made of cotton.
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Two biggest cotton producers are India and China, followed by the USA. Seems pretty diverse to me.
How are they going to find those genuine African prints and Daishikis if they ban all cotton? Reduced to wearing low rider polyester basketball bloomers?
>>When it comes to running clothes, it’s always said that “cotton is rotten.”
I carry a gun so I don’t have to run. Cotton clothing conceals better than synthetics.
I do a lot of outdoors stuff and have plenty of items made of performance fabric. In the winter especially, cotton kills. It retains moisture from sweat and contributes to hypothermia.
In the summer, I’ll wear wool socks, synthetic everything else. But I often slip on a cotton T-shirt for sleeping. It’s just more comfortable.
To call certain textiles racist though is just flat stupid
Slaves also farmed rice, so don’t eat rice and Chinese labor was mistreated when building the transcontinental railroad, so don’t ride trains.
People likely still think that this stuff is done by hand to this day.
They would be blown away by the amazing machinery that exists to harvest the crops that make their in the stores.
There...Saved your racist butt, /s
-PJ
I am calling for a total ban on stupid, annoying, addle-brained pains in the @ss.
Hard to swab your ears with a scrubbie swab.
The left won’t stop at cotton. The goal is to induce fear over every word in the English language.
We laughed at banana, watermelon, bacon and fried chicken. They won, so they went on to other words. Today it’s cotton. Soon it will be another word. How about “trans fat”? It makes fun of “transexuals” by calling them fat. Eh?
They know what they are doing. Controlling the language controls our thoughts.
Wrong? On “so many levels”? But the only “level” she harps on is “slavery”.
Somebody probably had to tell her that the plant was, in fact, “raw” cotton.
As I’ve oft heard southerers say, “If we had known they’d be this much trouble, we would have picked our own damn cotton.”
how many trees did you condemn to death to make that barrel?
Up until the nineteenth century, most of the world’s sugar cane was harvested by slaves, so let’s also ban cane sugar.
It takes intelligence to convince yourself of stupidity that no senseless animal would ever entertain.
That is raciest!
:) I had left my winter wool in NC a couple of yrs ago and froze my behind off, but I survived. Layer, layer, layer. Cotton T, thick cotton plaid shirt, thick cotton sweat shirt. But I love the winter. Burns calories. LOL
Its beyond my understanding... period.
Does that make grocery stores racist?
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