[QUOTE=hexpunK;48043926]eBay disallow the sale of a lot of Nazi shit;
[url]http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/offensive.html[/url]
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It helps if you research things before you get mad at them, just saying.[/QUOTE]
But there's loads of those "prohibited" items on sale
And they have policy on Nazi stuff, fine, but not Communist??
[QUOTE=Zero-Point;48045469]You can take my DPRK flag when you pry it from my cold dead hands![/QUOTE]
Well, that's the thing. I support your right to own it, and fly it. May be laws against how you do so, but this is America. I have a Confederate Flag that was given to me by my friend, I'd be disappointed in any American who doesn't want me to have it because they don't know it's actually very limited, barely official history. Course, I'll get called racist, but so was my black friend who drives a jacked up truck and flies the Confederate flag.
[QUOTE=Sableye;48034218]theres no irony here, the confederate flag was the representation of the confederacy, a society where one color of man was superior to all others. to wave the flag remembering those that died to protect that country is daft, remember the people, not the country, theres tons of other symbols and flags that have been used to represent civil war veterans throughout the last century
granted, this is an extreme PR measure on eBay's part, but the flag itself is the symbol of hate, not veterans[/QUOTE]
you know damn well that racism was alive and well in the union, and you should know damn well that there were talks of succession years before anyone thought of banning slavery. the confederate battle flag is a symbol of rebellion, not a symbol of racism. the Civil War was 100% about political ideologies.
[QUOTE=butre;48046542]you know damn well that racism was alive and well in the union, and you should know damn well that there were talks of succession years before anyone thought of banning slavery. the confederate battle flag is a symbol of rebellion, not a symbol of racism. the Civil War was 100% about political ideologies.[/QUOTE]
The main political ideology in question being slavery.
[QUOTE=Last or First;48048464]The main political ideology in question being slavery.[/QUOTE]
slavery was just the last straw, far from the main issue
[QUOTE=butre;48048819]slavery was just the last straw, far from the main issue[/QUOTE]
Yes, the main issue being the government overriding state rights and other states ignoring the laws in southern states.
To be specific, state rights allowing slavery and state laws about returning fugitive slaves.
This ban made me think that they could quite honestly ban items containing St. George's cross with the same reasoning they're using to ban the confederate flag. It's appropriated by modern racist groups just as much as the confederate flag, the only difference is that you can argue there's a historical basis for not liking the confederate flag, but honestly, there were racists and pro-slavery people on both sides, and thinking that there's a 'good guy' and a 'bad guy' in wars is just wrong. It's way more complicated than that.
Obviously a symbol isn't worth banning until there's a highly publicised hate crime involving them though.
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