Quote: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.

Sure, it is entirely possible that these items were already on the verge and the massacre was just the impetus. However, they didn't immediately ban the items after the massacre, they waited until the Confederate flag debate started raging. To me, it was a preemptive move which is par for the course for large corporations - run away scared from progressives for fear of the image that the company will be painted in.


If Walmart is acting in good conscious by banning these items, why shouldn't a bakery be permitted to regulate what they write on a cake? Can't have it both ways, and that goes for both sides of the aisle.


In the end, I just have a heavy distaste for using companies as weapons.

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