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Complaints by Ignorant, Hateful Liberals Force Michigan Bed and Breakfast to Take Down Norway Flag Because They Think It’s the Confederate Flag
Gateway Pundit ^ | 7-29-2020 | Kristinn Taylor

Posted on 07/29/2020 8:58:24 AM PDT by servo1969

A couple in St. John’s, Michigan recently took down the red, white and blue flag of Norway displayed on the porch of their bed and breakfast after receiving continuous complaints by ignorant liberals who accused the couple of flying the Confederate battle flag.

The Nordic Pineapple, run out of a mansion built in 1861 by a Union general, was started two years ago by Greg and Kjersten Offenbecker. The couple flew the flag of Norway from a pillar opposite the American flag to honor Kjersten’s Norwegian heritage (her grandfather immigrated from Norway.) Both the U.S. and Norway flags were taken down by the frustrated couple.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: confederate; flag; gregoffenbecker; kjerstenoffenbecker; michigan; norway; stjohns
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To: servo1969

Thus clearly illuminating the ignorance and prejudiced attitude against the South and anything pertaining to the Confederacy. Our public education (really the lack thereof) shows itself to be lacking on a daily basis.


21 posted on 07/29/2020 9:10:45 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: servo1969

> They could always tell them to buzz off. <

Unfortunately it’s a different world today. Twenty years ago anyone offended by that flag would simply not stay there. But now, there’d be rocks thrown through the windows, etc.

Side story:
A guy I know owns an apartment building. And there was some graffiti drawn on the garage’s doors. He said he knew who did it. He just couldn’t prove it. I asked him if he was going to file a police report, or at least call their parents.

Nope, he said. The last time it happened, he did call the parents. The next evening someone broke every window in the garage.


22 posted on 07/29/2020 9:11:33 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: servo1969

I used to have a Norwegian flag on my desk at work. I had so many dopes come over and ask if it was the Confederate flag that I finally put NORWAY in big black letters on the stick. But, I still had the occasional dope ask me that question.


23 posted on 07/29/2020 9:11:51 AM PDT by euram
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To: Bonemaker

‘Have we become a nation of cowards?’

address that question to the facemask crowd on this forum...


24 posted on 07/29/2020 9:12:33 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: servo1969

One would have to be both blind and dumb as hell to confuse a cross with an X. The Norwegian flag more closely approximates the German flag than the Old Dixie.

This level of stupidity complete demonstrates how easy leftists can equate anything to do with American culture as somehow racist. The saddest aspect of this is that people that ignorant and dumb are almost immune from fact and counter any argument with a reflexive insult. It’s almost impossible to educate the willfully stupid.


25 posted on 07/29/2020 9:12:58 AM PDT by Intar
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To: Intar

When I saw the German flag, I am referring to the German battle flag (black cross).


26 posted on 07/29/2020 9:13:40 AM PDT by Intar
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To: servo1969

Complete and utter ignorance. They have no idea of origin of the peoples that settled that land. Or maybe they do and they just hate people of Scandinavian ancestry. They are very white after all.


27 posted on 07/29/2020 9:16:43 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: servo1969

I hope they go out of business solely based on their cowardice.


28 posted on 07/29/2020 9:16:55 AM PDT by albie
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To: servo1969

The flag had too much white in it.

The color white must be exterminated by the Democratic Party storm troopers.


29 posted on 07/29/2020 9:17:14 AM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: PapaBear3625
They would rather take down the flag than risk being firebombed.

Yep, this is why we are *far* closer to capitulation than we are to a civil war in this country.

30 posted on 07/29/2020 9:18:57 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: servo1969

Put up a sign indicating the the flag is that of Norway. Then state that if you thought it was the Confederate flag, that just shows that you are an ignoramus.


31 posted on 07/29/2020 9:19:12 AM PDT by diatomite (Soros delenda est and his flying monkeys too.)
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To: freedumb2003

5

I saw what you did there.


32 posted on 07/29/2020 9:21:31 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

“This is the flag of Norway. It is not a confederate flag. You can leave now.”


33 posted on 07/29/2020 9:22:12 AM PDT by I want the USA back (BLM is a violent marxist movement designed to overthrow the US constitutional form of government.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

‘Complete and utter ignorance.’

anyone care to guess along with me the gender of those who spewed complaints about this...?


34 posted on 07/29/2020 9:23:15 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

Is her name, Karen?


35 posted on 07/29/2020 9:25:06 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: servo1969

That would be laughable if it weren’t true.


36 posted on 07/29/2020 9:29:39 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Leaning Right

“The last time it happened, he did call the parents. The next evening someone broke every window in the garage.”

Maybe he should have broken some windows himself?


37 posted on 07/29/2020 9:29:58 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: servo1969
"Burn those white supremacists down!"


38 posted on 07/29/2020 9:35:29 AM PDT by moovova
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To: servo1969

The Democrats are in a civil war against their own racist origins and are demanding the rest of us loudly pick a side to show we’re not as bad as they are.


39 posted on 07/29/2020 9:44:09 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: servo1969
I drove by the closest US post office to us yesterday, and I noticed it had a black flag flying underneath the US flag. I thought "this can't be a BLM flag!". I later determined it was a POW MIA flag that the US post offices will occasionally fly. Makes sense as this part of Central Texas, even as a suburb of Austin, is very much pro-military.

I'm now expecting the loony left to state that all black flags must be BLM flags.

40 posted on 07/29/2020 9:44:20 AM PDT by CatOwner
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