This morning.
Townsend Street, Dublin.
FIGHT!
Any excuse.
U.S. Retailers Quick to Pull Confederate Flag Merchandise (TIme)
Thanks Gareth
This morning.
Townsend Street, Dublin.
FIGHT!
Any excuse.
U.S. Retailers Quick to Pull Confederate Flag Merchandise (TIme)
Thanks Gareth
Ye. The Dukes of Hazzard wasn’t that great, really.
If we’ve learned anything from the North it’s that any fervour over what flags you can and can’t put up is ultimately a waste of time.
Yep, its not like taking down a flag is going to automatically make the racism in the south disappear. Its just gonna make a large number of people feel as if they’re being attacked for the way they choose to self-identify.
You mean, racists? God help them.
+1
Cripes! What’s that doing there?
Rising again?
but there are 4 flags, you need an odd number to have a middle one.
Wind Jammer apparently said last night that they’d be taking down the most offensive one…
Knowing the Jammer’s crowd, the St George’s Cross has most to fear by that remark.
America finally wakes up to it’s continued promotion of it’s apartheid past and its racist “heroes”
….OR…
US retailers panic over potential backlash over racist motivated murders and avoid bad PR by pretending to be self aware all of a sudden.
Capitalists be capitalising.
Is it really promotion of their racist past? I mean lots of flags can be associated with really dark times.
Theres some communities who associate our flag with terrorism or attacks and repression but it doesnt mean that to us.
It pretty much is, yeah. That flag was specifically designed for the confederate states who went to war because they refused to end slavery.
“..who went to war because they refused to end slavery.”
Sure they did. And the war in Iraq was never about oil.
It’s pretty well established. The six states that seceded owned something like 48% of slaves in the Us. Their economies would have been devastated because they relied on non paid workers on their cotton plantations.
Yes.
The reason the confederacy wanted to part ways with the US is because they wanted to keep slaves.
only difference between them was the north had a steady stream of irish and german immigrants to work for for next to nothing. the union flag was just as demeaning as the confederacy.
It is, yes… it’s not just the flag…. there are cities and towns of South Carolina where they have their “heroes” of the Confederate Army – racists and slave owners and advocates for slavery – celebrated in place names and streets…. and watching the news, CNN past couple of days, it looks like that state is coming under pressure to drop these…. proper order.
Yup. Mind you we’re not the best either. Ever read what some of our historic heroes thought of the slave trade? It ain’t pretty.
Cynical publicity stunt I presume. At least the Irish tricolour is at “half mast”, possibly as a sign of shame from the flag erector?
Anyway, the Windjammer is an absolute kip. I wouldn’t go in there even if the terrible “beverages” that they serve in dirty glasses were free. Staff are rude, the toilets are filthy and the clientele are a bunch of ignorant baboons. Avoid at all costs.
7am opening tho
It’s hard to get past that…
That pub is not for the likes of you Liam
I love the way if the yanks have to choose between blaming lax gun laws or a flag, they’re suddenly on an anti confederate flag crusade, something which they never showed the littlest interest in before… not that it’s not due, it is, but it’s a distraction from the real issue, like blaming mass shootings on video games instead of lax gun laws, missing the point.
I get the feeling that the same people defending the lack of gun control are also defending the flag.
For the fleggers in the US “Gun control” means shooting black people.
What about fans of Southern rock? I gots to have my Skynyrd!
Amen! Sweet Home Alabama !
Southern change gonna come at last
And me my Georgia Satellites
An’keep yer hands ta’yerself
To say nothing of the Black Crowes. You can have my Allman Bros when you pry them from my old, drunk hands…dagnabbit.
Surely it means not being allowed to shoot black people?
Is this Outrage of the Month?
I wouldn’t call it outrage, but it is interesting that people in the southern states of the US are realising that the flag that represented the confederacy, that fought to keep slavery, might be a bit racist.
simplify much
No. The US civil war was mainly about slavery.
No. It wasn’t.
What was it about, so?
https://youtu.be/_Q–iGgtRn8
Yes.
This is suddenly offensive, yet all the confederate flags waved at Cork GAA matches, or even worn on the helmet of one of their best hurlers, has never been offensive to the majority.
It’s more like a recent realisation. You can change your mind based on information that’s new to you, it doesn’t mean you have somehow lost.
Have to say, as someone who visits Youghal semi-regularly, its always freaked me out more than a bit.
Oh grow up
The Stars n’Bars have been flying over the Rebels since the Black n’Tans burnt them out
Also. Incidentally.
The Black n’Tans burning all the team gear is why Cork now wear the Blood n’Bandages
There was also a Cork / Southern Brigade in the Confederate Army. I have a replica of their colours.
I’ll always salute the Stars n’Bars
Loud n’Proud
And always
A Rebel
Corcaigh Abu
Ah yes, the old “grow up” response, always a good way to belittle people who point out uncomfortable truths.
Perkin Warbeck is the true king, right Frilly?
I’m not uncomfortable
Not in the slightest
In fact I sarong a stars n’bars t’meself still on big days
An’with a bitta luck
Ûck’it
a hape of the stuff
Let’s be honest ’bout it
There’ll be a few outings yet this season
Corcaigh Abu
n’if you want’ta read more into why I’ll always salute this Flag
Then lad
You do need to grow up
Here Bertie
‘Dunno why you’re getting up my arse about this
Cork people adopted this flag almost a century ago
Wanna’ know what I miss most about Cork?
Welcome To Cork
Home of the Dixies
The night they drove oul Dixie down
So you make time for the racism in the evenings then father?
It’s pretty straight forward. The confederacy left the union because they wanted to keep slavery. The stars and bars represents the confederacy, not Cork, despite what you’d like to think. You’re definitely engaging in some wilful ignorance.
Now, please explain to me why I need to “grow up” and if it’s all the same to you try to refrain from the patronising with the “my lad” stuff.
Also, I couldn’t care less about sports. A racist flag is a racist flag.
Well Peydue
We are superior
Ta’the rest ‘ve ye
I’m not getting up your arse at all Frilly. More of a jokey nudge in the ribs with a gentle slagging about the history of the label “Rebel Cork”.
Bring it on Bert
Bring it on
Always
Loud n’Proud bhoy
“So Frilly, I hear you’re a racist now”
I’m from Cork, not being a GAA fan I never knew about that but, now that I know, I am properly ashamed. What the fupp Cork?
As much as I like to poo poo anything coming out of the peoples republic, calling them racist because of the stars and bars is ridiculous.
They’re from cork, not georgia.
Then maybe they shouldn’t be waving it heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere
Laughin’
I have never seen a baboon in a Dublin pub.
We went out there on our honeymoon
Says she to me “If you don’t come soon
I’ll have to get in with the hairy baboons”
Up in the zoological beer garden
You’d miss the Swastika Laundry, wouldn’t you?
Is that the one nobody remembered or knew about until the internet came along?
Broadsheet
Did ye delete my post in this thread?
Why like?
Was it my
The South Will Rise Again
That got ye all sweaty?
The stars and bars was the flag of the confederate states and was a red bar then a white bar then another red bar with a blue square with a ring of stars in the canton.The flag shown is the confederate battle flag adopted during the civil war fought to maintain the right to keep slaves and was called the stainless banner.It is rightly seen by many as a flag of hatred.
So why not go INTO the Wind-Jammer and complain in person instead of taking a picture with a mobile phone, uploading it, and then cycling to your sales job in Silicon Docks?
Oh right, a Broadsheet whinger would last about 10 seconds in there.
No balls.
Coming in here is bad enough ; )