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People Are Calling For A Total Ban On Cotton Because — You Guessed It — Racism
dailycaller.com ^ | Jena Greene

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.
PLEASE REMOVE this decor.
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:
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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KEYWORDS: agriculture; cotton; hobbylobby; snowflakes; usefulidiots
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To: Sacajaweau

“I’d be neked...”

In before the first freeper responds with TTWWP( this thread worthless without pics) :)


61 posted on 09/19/2017 6:12:01 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: Little Ray

Boy you arent kidding, just look at the change from 20 or 30 years ago... seems like light years...


62 posted on 09/19/2017 6:12:09 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: RoosterRedux

Cotton was used as early as 5000 BC.

It is natural to Africa, Americas, Australia.

Egyptian cotton exists from ancient Egyptian times


63 posted on 09/19/2017 6:12:41 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I hope that Hobby Lobby changes nothing about the display; and I hope they do not respond to the snowflake in any way whatsoever.


64 posted on 09/19/2017 6:13:16 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: VanDeKoik

This one shows how one of these machines works on the inside. I can’t imagine how engineers even begin to design something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPFGgThMe-k


65 posted on 09/19/2017 6:13:21 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: treetopsandroofs

Laz would agree...


66 posted on 09/19/2017 6:13:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: workerbee

The ‘modern farmhouse’ look is racist.


67 posted on 09/19/2017 6:14:29 AM PDT by EBH ( May God Save the Republic)
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To: RoosterRedux

The Left has succeeded in making Black Americans absolute MORONS..................................


68 posted on 09/19/2017 6:14:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Rurudyne

LOL!


69 posted on 09/19/2017 6:14:45 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: RoosterRedux

Wow, they’ve gone off the deep end. I wonder if the progressives are trying to out do each other on just how “sensitive’ they can be, while all along they are looking like idiots.

and an FYI to the crazy woman from that article : My dad grew up on his family farm and he picked cotton as well. Did she ever consider that they weren’t the only ones picking cotton?


70 posted on 09/19/2017 6:14:59 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: Cronos

“You can’t boil everything down to a couple of centuries.”

Yes, you can if people are ignorant, and the some schools have done a masterful job of keeping groups uninformed. For the rest, nothing matters but their internal narrative that the world began in in some nebulous past between Clinton and the invention of electricity.

I was reading a new book about the Nanjing horrors prior to WWII while waiting in public, and a young man who was curious asked about the book.

He had no idea that Japan invaded China or controlled parts of SE Asia or the Boxer Rebellion or the Opium Wars, and nothing other than a vague memory of some trade routes during the exploration period. Prince Henry the Who?

Such a shame! Without understanding the past, how can these youngsters hope to create a future?


71 posted on 09/19/2017 6:15:01 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Steely Tom

Maybe Obama was a ‘black white supremacist’ (like they are calling Dr. Ben Carson and others, haha) - he wore cotton didn’t he? Oh, swoon, the insensitivity!


72 posted on 09/19/2017 6:15:17 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: FatherofFive

Slaves grew tobacco, ban all cigarettes, especially those menthol ones that blacks like so much. Cigarettes, cigars, snuff and Red Man should all be banned.


73 posted on 09/19/2017 6:16:36 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Every time you vote for a democrat, you put another nail in the coffin of the USA.....)
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To: ClearCase_guy

If it weren’t for COTTON, Daniell Rider would have a different name and be living in a mud hut wearing a grass skirt, wondering if her husband was bringing home a gazelle for dinner......................


74 posted on 09/19/2017 6:16:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Political Junkie Too

They did....................


75 posted on 09/19/2017 6:17:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: umgud

Yeah, I think maybe I’ll go out and buy a nylon Confederate flag.

I have a cotton one.......double racist here........;)


76 posted on 09/19/2017 6:18:12 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Well, I swanny, I think I’ll swoon.

But,but,but, what if is organic?

Doesn’t that cancel out the racism, ‘at so many levels’

Name the levels, genius.

Sorry, I had to have fun with that...the first sentence will only make sense to north or south Carolinians.


77 posted on 09/19/2017 6:18:13 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Johnny Cash Pick a Bale of Cotton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_s01hE4yFs


78 posted on 09/19/2017 6:18:23 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: huldah1776

In cold weather, especially outdoors with limited opportunities to change, cotton should never be your base layer. The fibers retain moisture and get cold.

A wool or synthetic base layer is best, a cotton middle layer is OK if you don’t get it wet, then a nylon, wool or synthetic outer layer is great. When layering is done properly, a heavy winter coat isn’t always necessary.

I’ve winter camped in sub-freezing temps where my pants were a poly base layer and a pair of rain pants. Upper was a base, fleece and just a shell with no insulation. Worked great. Sub-zero is a different story. Load up on insulation then.

Cotton socks are forbidden on spring, fall or winter camps with anyone who joins me. Absolutely forbidden. I’ve seen kids screaming in pain because their socks got wet and frozen


79 posted on 09/19/2017 6:19:12 AM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: RoosterRedux

We have reached the point where virtually EVERYTHING has become politicized, even the most mundane trivialities. There isn’t anything that doesn’t spark a controversy or grievance.

This is really INSANE — on SO many levels.


80 posted on 09/19/2017 6:19:25 AM PDT by Starboard
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