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Vendors at PA Farm Show asked to remove Confederate flag merchandise
PennLive ^ | January 12, 2016 | Sue Gleiter

Posted on 01/14/2016 4:05:16 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

Several vendors at the Pennsylvania Farm Show have been asked to stop selling merchandise adorned with the Confederate flag.

The vendors were selling items such as t-shirts, belt buckles and hats with the flags at the show which runs through Jan. 16 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg.

"All told, seven vendors that were selling items with the flag displayed were brought to our attention. Upon request, seven vendors removed the items of concern, and we certainly appreciate their cooperation and understanding," said Brandi Hunter-Davenport, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture via an email statement.

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"Items such as the Confederate flag are not in keeping with the spirit and theme of inclusiveness we're trying to promote. In fact, it's the antithesis of that theme," Hunter-Davenport added.

(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; pennsylvania
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Neo-Maoist campaign against The Four Olds continues.
21 posted on 01/14/2016 5:14:46 AM PST by kanawa
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If I was the cynical type, ;) I’d think PCN isn’t covering as they did in the past so they can sell more DVD’s at $39 a pop.

Speaking of sales I’m watching a repeat of the sheep to shawl now but last night we watched the sheep to shawl auctions live. Several went for well over $1000 with $1600-$1800 the highest. The lowest was a Jr division for $300 IIRC.

Mrs p6 and I enjoy the square dancing, home made fashions, Gingerbread houses, weaving and food.


22 posted on 01/14/2016 5:18:08 AM PST by prisoner6 (Unmutual and Disharmonious)
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To: prisoner6

Admittedly, the only segments I caught were a 20-minute one on the milkshake booth, and one in which a 10 or 12 year old lad practically tortured a large rabbit (grabbing it here and there, turning it this way and that; surprised it didn’t bite him) while he was describing how judging is done.


23 posted on 01/14/2016 5:26:05 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

The Goosesteppers! That is who! living in a PC dictatorship!


24 posted on 01/14/2016 5:43:43 AM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Once the Rebel Flag goes—they will go for the US Flag (Tea Party Flag would be next)—All symbols that are seen as “Hate Symbols” Like Ms. Hailey said—will come down. Statues of all Slave holders, Only Rosa Parks and MLK will be permitted-—and trevon Martin.


25 posted on 01/14/2016 5:52:33 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I wonder what this genius does with customers who show up in clothing such as t-shirts sporting the CBF.


26 posted on 01/14/2016 5:55:27 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Muslim killers are lone wolfs and should not be judged. Southern white terrorists are representative of a whole region and that region must be punished every single day forever.


27 posted on 01/14/2016 6:02:38 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The obvious way around this problem is to sell Confederate items in context with the Civil War. That is, if you sell a picture, show both the Union and Confederate flags on it. If it has a picture of Lee, add one of Grant. One of Jefferson Davis opposite one of Lincoln.

Of course, the “balance” can be less obvious. For example, a picture of Nathan Bedford Forrest can be opposite one of John Brown, and one of Stonewall Jackson can be opposite one of George B. McClellan.

The next step is to sell belt buckle “sets”, with a Confederate flag and a US flag paired together.


28 posted on 01/14/2016 6:10:05 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If we could just get rid of Philthadelphia, Pissburgh, and Harassburg, and all the liberals therein, Pennsyltucky would be a whole lot better.


29 posted on 01/14/2016 6:11:02 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Islamists are laughing their ass off at this....


30 posted on 01/14/2016 6:13:28 AM PST by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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To: Daveinyork

“Speaking as a northern yankee, that flag has a different meaning above the Mason Dixon line than below it.”

I’ve lived above and below the Mason Dixon line. Down south I’d assume the person displaying it was into southern heritage. Not up here.


31 posted on 01/14/2016 6:42:06 AM PST by Varda
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

In the olden days it was French Postcards sold from the overcoat. Now it is Confederate items!

What a shame!


32 posted on 01/14/2016 7:51:26 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Democrats want the Confederate flag banned but America needs to see the flag displayed prominently in every school and government facility to keep fresh the memory of the reign of terror against blacks and other minorities visited on them by Democrats from colonial days to the present:
Horrors like the Ku Klux Klan; Drew Scott, Jim Crow, poll taxes, murders and other lynchings; eugenics including involuntary sterilization; involuntary medical experiments; the slaughter of the surrendered black soldiers at Vicksburg; the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy.
Democrat horrors all:
Three segregationist boycotts of their own Democrat national conventions in 1948, 1960 and 1964; voting against every major Civil Rights Acts; Little Rock; Medgar Evans; James Meredith; Rosa Parks; Selma; Birmingham; George Wallace; LBJ; the segregationists who held the Senate in a stranglehold through 1960s until the 1990s; the nation’s enduring shame of Robert Byrd, the Grand Klaxon of the Ku Klux Klan, presiding over Congress as Senate president pro tempore, third in line to the presidency through 2010.
Think about that: If Joe Biden was showing his fabled shotgun to President in the men’s bathroom and Slow Joe had one of his well-known brain cramps and blew both to Kingdom Come the Great Exalted Kleagle would have been President.
That’s why America needs daily reminders of Democrat perfidy, both accidentally and purposefully.


33 posted on 01/14/2016 9:43:20 AM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.)
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To: wardaddy; rustbucket; PeaRidge; stainlessbanner

Dixie Ping


34 posted on 01/14/2016 12:13:15 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (vote for Tom Hoefling for President 2016 it's time for a real conservative to be in Whitehouse)
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To: namvolunteer; wardaddy; rustbucket; PeaRidge

The Confederate flag has Zero, to do with the Klan or Segregation democrats, they have no calim to it whatsoever, anymore than the American flag which they also used.


35 posted on 01/14/2016 12:19:55 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (vote for Tom Hoefling for President 2016 it's time for a real conservative to be in Whitehouse)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Better headline: “Vendors asked to remove Democrat Party memorabilia”.


36 posted on 01/14/2016 12:32:11 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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