Quote:I'm not necessarily a conservative, but I do like the invisible hand thing.


Let's not act like these corporations all suddenly had an ephipany of conscious and that is why the merchandise is off their shelves. Its negative media attention driven by lynch mobs that caused these stores to be preemptive. This isn't a free market thing. There certainly is a demand for the merchandise, but because of a very vocal sect, the stores were forced to remove the goods for fear of future losses in selling other goods. I don't like what the mob is doing, but I don't hold any hard feelings - it's within their rights. I hold more ill will towards companies who crumble to being strong-armed.


Should these companies next remove bikinis, haltertops, yoga pants, etc., because conservative muslims find it very offensive? Where does it end?

Much of what I posted was tongue in cheek.

 

Of course big corporations are NOT people and do not have consciences.

 

However, there may have been reasons other than coercion that caused these companies to stop selling the items.

 

It is entirely possible the decision makers for the entities may have thought the Confederate items were of dubious morality in the first place, and were not entirely comfortable peddling in these things even before the massacre.

 

Bottom line is these corporations, of their own free will, decided to stop selling Confederate goods.  There are plenty of other businesses who continue to sell them, again of their own free will.

 

As far as "rights" are concerned, nothing lost, nothing gained.

---