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azurnoir

(45,850 posts) Tue Jun 23, 2015, 01:37 PM Jun 2015

Auction site eBay to ban listings of Confederate flags

Source: Yahoo/Reuters

Online auction site eBay Inc said on Tuesday it will ban Confederate flags and related items containing the flag's image from its website as it had become a "contemporary symbol of divisiveness and racism."

The decision comes after Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Sears Holdings Corp said they would stop selling products bearing the Confederate flag on Monday, after a white gunman shot nine dead last week at a historically black South Carolina church.

Johnna Hoff, spokeswoman for eBay said the company will take immediate action to block new listings and begin notifying sellers who have current listings of Confederate flags or related merchandise that may be impacted by the decision.

A search on eBay's website on Tuesday found thousands of Confederate flags and merchandise including clothing and smartphone cases bearing the flag's image on its marketplace.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/ebay-ban-listings-confederate-flags-164228590--finance.html

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Auction site eBay to ban listings of Confederate flags (Original Post) azurnoir Jun 2015 OP

I'm honestly shocked by how fast the tide has turned on this issue. Chakab Jun 2015 #1

I agree... never even considered that this would be the take away from this massacre... MMTampa Jun 2015 #11

With gun control off the table, EL34x4 Jun 2015 #12

It looks like the South finally rose again... world wide wally Jun 2015 #2

The confederate flag is being finally, finally, seen by all for being the Dixie Swastika minorities have Fred Sanders Jun 2015 #3

I see the swastika as divine and a symbol for the well-being of humanity cosmicone Jun 2015 #7

I saw a young, white woman in a Confederate flag bikini last Sunday. CottonBear Jun 2015 #4

This is amusing considering some of the anti-Obama stuff they sell. Vinca Jun 2015 #5

Good News!!! d_legendary1 Jun 2015 #6

nice irisblue Jun 2015 #8

Good. About time. blackspade Jun 2015 #9

Will that include the state flag of Mississippi? SansACause Jun 2015 #10

Chakab

(1,727 posts)

1. I'm honestly shocked by how fast the tide has turned on this issue.

Reply to azurnoir (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 01:44 PM

Jun 2015

MMTampa

(82 posts)

11. I agree... never even considered that this would be the take away from this massacre...

Reply to Chakab (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 08:42 PM

Jun 2015

Never even considered that the rebel flag would be the take away from this massacre.

EL34x4

(2,003 posts)

12. With gun control off the table,

Reply to MMTampa (Reply #11)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 08:46 PM

Jun 2015

People had to find something to go after.

world wide wally

(21,755 posts)

2. It looks like the South finally rose again...

Reply to azurnoir (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 01:52 PM

Jun 2015

for one more belly flop before going under again.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. The confederate flag is being finally, finally, seen by all for being the Dixie Swastika minorities have

Reply to azurnoir (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 01:54 PM

Jun 2015

always seen.

Symbols like the Swastika - banned in Germany and France and most of Europe - being treated for the symbol of hate and death that it is is a leap forward for human rights and stamping out of organized hate.

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)

7. I see the swastika as divine and a symbol for the well-being of humanity

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:15 PM

Jun 2015

Hitler caricatured it. Swastika is one of the three symbols of culture .. the Om and Shri being the other two.

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)

4. I saw a young, white woman in a Confederate flag bikini last Sunday.

Reply to azurnoir (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:03 PM

Jun 2015

I was at a lakeside park in a very white area of the South in a county where very few African Americans or other minorities live.

She might as well have worn a t-shirt that said "I'm a racist."