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Southern Discomfort

Posted by Helen Killer

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Dec 18, 2009
11:23 am

#1 turtlegirl76 :

It will go perfectly with baby’s first gun rack!

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Dec 18, 2009
11:24 am

#2 Dawgtowner :

To wear to a impress your cousins and uncles…. who someday you will marry!

And the view in a room made me snort coffee through my nose.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:25 am

#3 Dynomoose :

Wow, they could have ironed it before taking the photo.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:30 am

#4 razberries :

View it in a room…brilliant as always!
Hey, you guys coulda also put those little cut-out wooden people by that seller who kept saying, “I’m not a racist”…
All jokes aside, what is wrong with people???
This lady is from NJ of all places- I didn’t know that there were rednecks in ‘Jersey!

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Dec 18, 2009
11:30 am

#5 CreepyLittleGirl :

Jesus. Usually I try not to be too mean to fellow Etsy sellers, but that is just vile. That View in a Room says it all. Why do people think this is OK?

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Dec 18, 2009
11:31 am

#6 methuselah :

For reals on that room view, Helen. I can think of a lot of little girls that dress wouldn’t be perfect for, starting with Malia and Sasha.

I don’t view the Stars & Bars as Southern heritage. I see it as it is, a symbol of sedition and treason, and I spit on it and anyone who displays it.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:32 am

#7 bootsychoo :

I agree with Dynomoose. The wrinkles are hugely offensive.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:33 am

#8 domesticnature :

This speaks to the need for an “Incredibly Offensive” category/tag. How ’bout it, Helen?

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Dec 18, 2009
11:34 am

#9 Retro Vertigo :

OH! My girl Chantelle would absolutely LOVE this dress for her twins, LaTanya and T’Nique! I’ll have to forward her the link…

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Dec 18, 2009
11:34 am

#10 methuselah :

Also, cuz nobody else has said it yet:

!!!!!SAY WHAT!!!!!

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Dec 18, 2009
11:34 am

#11 underemployed :

I don’t think it’s legal to mail that across the Mason-Dixon line.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:34 am

#12 CreepyLittleGirl :

#7, Yeah, and what’s with the poor contrast and color saturation? When will people learn that not using photo editing software is just despicably insensitive?

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Dec 18, 2009
11:36 am

#13 Dynomoose :

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Dec 18, 2009
11:39 am

#14 Retro Vertigo :

#13, the swastika wasn’t originally intended to offend people either.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:40 am

#15 turtlegirl76 :

@Dynomoose – so, you’re saying that most people in the south are basically ignorant, yes? Say what?!

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Dec 18, 2009
11:41 am

#16 milkshakesthecat :

Haha, Razberries, we have tons of rednecks in Jer-z. Unfortunately. Many people have residences in Virginia or Florida. Not sure why they want to also live *here*, but whatever.

This honestly doesn’t surprise me.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:41 am

#17 Dawgtowner :

Way to ensure that your toddler gets beat up at playschool recess.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:42 am

#18 Jea :

I grew up in Florida. My dad had a giant confederate flag painted on the hood of his pick up truck. WITH FLAMES! He probably would have dressed me in this if he could. Hopefully he wouldn’t have set me on fire.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:42 am

#19 leftfoot :

Dynomoose – actually I’ve grown up in the deep south my whole like and it depends on who you talk to. Most whites whose family has roots in the south don’t see it as racist but a symbol of heritage, as you say. However, recently relocated whites and blacks of all eras overwhelmingly see it as racist. When, as a minority, you live where racism is heavily prevalent, it’s impossible not to see the confederate flag as a symbol of slavery and how little the south has progressed in cultural…

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Dec 18, 2009
11:43 am

#20 Dynomoose :

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Dec 18, 2009
11:43 am

#21 leftfoot :

errr.. “progressed in cultural attitudes.”

sorry for going over my limit.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:43 am

#22 Purple :

I can see this going two ways. Either you see the Confederate flag as a symbol of the stuff in the “show it in a room”, in which case, GAH! Or, as Dynomoose says, you just see it as a historical thing in which case, why the hell are you sewing a flag into clothing? That’s kind of disrespectful.

You wouldn’t do that to our current US flag, would you?

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Dec 18, 2009
11:44 am

#23 somethinghomemade :

Helen certainly kicked the hornets’ nest today! I won’t weigh in on this, but I will say…”Aren’t you glad you live in a free country where you don’t get beaten or jailed for your opinions?”

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Dec 18, 2009
11:45 am

#24 curlytopnola :

it’s a KKK starter outfit….she’ll get her hood and whites at 16

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Dec 18, 2009
11:45 am

#25 Dynomoose :

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Dec 18, 2009
11:47 am

#26 Dynomoose :

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Dec 18, 2009
11:47 am

#27 leftfoot :

Symbols aren’t what they used to be. The iron cross was used by the nazis and no matter the history, it is seen TODAY as a symbol for white supremacists. The confederate flag didn’t represent racism and slavery at the time, but TODAY is seen that way. Those are facts that have to be accepted and understood. Both symbols have been adopted by the racism movements and therefore linked to racism in modern culture.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:49 am

#28 Recovering Crack Baby :

Fuck- I was hoping it wouldn’t be a Hatfield and McCoy conversation.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:49 am

#29 CreepyLittleGirl :

#21 Purple, how’s this for disrespecting the flag?

http://www.tvgasm.com/shows/images/sytycd/season2/proudamerican.jpg

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Dec 18, 2009
11:52 am

#30 Dynomoose :

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Dec 18, 2009
11:52 am

#31 bootsychoo :

Just poking a little fun, Dynomoose – New Orleans native here, remember? There’s been much debate about the Stars & Bars, & while my opinion of it is neither here nor there, I wouldn’t feel the desire to display it myself based on the grounds that others find it hurtful/offensive.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:56 am

#32 somethinghomemade :

After 13 years in the Air Force, my husband is still a little hurt every time he sees disrespect to ANY flag. Ours, yours, theirs, doesn’t matter. It is disrespectful and at least under military law, illegal. But, hey freedom of “speech” is there to protect the things we DON’T like. Nobody needs to protect “roses and sunbeams”. Back to my knitting and Metallica.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:56 am

#33 sillymerricat :

Seller says, “It may also be used a swimsuit coverup.”

Yeah, it may also be used as an innocence cover up.

UGH.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:57 am

#34 Dynomoose :

#30 bootsychoo : I’m in Metairie at the moment. I wouldn’t choose to display it because, where I grew up, only trashy people used it. I’m just saying that it has a different meaning down here.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:58 am

#35 Skully :

Betty Sue: “But Pa, I don’t wanna wear my flag dress to the cross burnin’, it’s too itchy.”

Pa: “Quityerbellachin!”

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Dec 18, 2009
11:59 am

#36 CreepyLittleGirl :

#30 somethinghomemade,

I don’t mean any disrespect myself, just found it funny that basically no one has any concept that making clothing out of flags is supposed to be offensive or disrespectful. In fact most people think it is patriotic. I’m sure the guy I linked to thought he was being very patriotic by wearing an American flag speedo on TV. Just thought it was funny.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:59 am

#37 IscreamUscream :

I’m just glad it didn’t include a pole.

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Dec 18, 2009
12:06 pm

#38 somethinghomemade :

#34 creepylittlegirl – No worries! I snorted at the guy in the flag speedo. My boss (on base) used to run around in flag running shorts. We forget the meaning behind our symbols and tend to see them as every day items after a while. My mom burned her bras and would have worn a flag top. My grandma was appalled. My great grandma would have spit on someone wearing a flag. Of course she was Italian, so she probably would have spit on anyone! I guess it just depends on what it means to you.

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Dec 18, 2009
12:07 pm

#39 Bronc Drywall :

I hate to Godwin this whole discussion, but this is kind of like the swastika.
Every now and then you’ll get someone who tries to tell you that the swastika used to be a Hindu symbol (or a Buddhist symbol, or a native American symbol, etc.).
OK, that may be true, but is that really what the swastika is known for now? It means something else now. It just does.
The Confederate flag doesn’t automatically mean you’re in the Klan (obviously), but it does have bad…

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Dec 18, 2009
12:07 pm

#40 NinjaGato :

I wonder if this seller also makes “baby’s first crack pipe” or “baby’s first stripper pole”?

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Dec 18, 2009
12:08 pm

#41 Bronc Drywall :

…connotations. Certainly there are enough bad associations that I don’t think it makes the perfect dress for a 5-year old.

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Dec 18, 2009
12:09 pm

#42 hammerhead77 :

Oh Lord.
I live in the South, and I hate this thing. I generally think the heritage not hate, Southern pride excuse for this thing is bullshit. Besides, I don’t see Northerners running around with Union symbols plastered all over their shit. The Civil War ended. The South lost. Get the fuck over it. JMHO. Emphasis on humble.

I’d like to commission a flag dress made from that killer whale running horses basketweave native american calico flag?

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Dec 18, 2009
12:11 pm

#43 somethinghomemade :

Oh, NinjaGato, you know how to make me laugh! *snort* stripper poles *giggle*

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Dec 18, 2009
12:13 pm

#44 Kimmer-G :

Or, as we here in Canada like to say, “Why can’t we all just get along eh?…Now where’s my friggin Molson?”

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Dec 18, 2009
12:15 pm

#45 bootsychoo :

#32 DM – Oh, I totally agree that the attitudes about it down here are much less heated. I’m not “shocked” to see this & wouldn’t be surprised to see a child wearing this around here. When I saw the item posted, I thought, “Oh, boy, here we go” & then I saw your comment about the wrinkles &, I have to admit, it cracked me up.
PS – I’ll be in NO this weekend – not going to the game tho

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Dec 18, 2009
12:23 pm

#46 IscreamUscream :

Admittedly, I don’t get the whole North vs South thing, because my family are recent emigres. But, I can only guess there are more enduring cultural symbols for the South than a battle flag used from 1861-65?
Sorry ’bout getting all edumacational…but this is the internets.

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Dec 18, 2009
12:29 pm

#47 somethinghomemade :

Ah well, people stubbornly cling to many things, some with reason, some not. It’s kind of like always cutting the ends off the roast before you bake it. You do it cuz your mom did. She did it cuz her mom did; who BTW only did it cuz it wouldn’t fit in the pan otherwise!

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Dec 18, 2009
12:30 pm

#48 Dawgtowner :

#44 Kimmer-G -Fregging right, eh! We have canadian flags everywhere! I say, Mooseknuckle to all of it!

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Dec 18, 2009
12:32 pm

#49 Dawgtowner :

This is kind of like putting your kid into a t-shirt that has a picture of GW Bush on it with the caption “Go Team!”…

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Dec 18, 2009
12:32 pm

#50 methuselah :

My main objection to this symbol is that it represents a nostalgic yearning for an event that was the most grievous in our nation’s history. 140 years after the fact, the wound is still fresh. Pols like Rick Perry speak favorably of secession. Separatists are gaining strength. This flag is used to inflame the desire for division. It is a red flag to me, and it breaks my heart.

Peace out to all my fellow countrymen and women. Let’s all be idiots together.

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Dec 18, 2009
12:33 pm

#51 Bridget :

This must be the special occasion dress: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10581683

Nascar. For real. This seller is so legit.

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Dec 18, 2009
12:37 pm

#52 Kimmer-G :

#48 – Haha! Mooseknuckle. Gold.

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Dec 18, 2009
12:38 pm

#53 saucerville :

#41–agreed, probably not the best choice for a five year old.

all connotations and intonations and all other -ions aside, bottom line is I don’t think this should be standard children’s apparrel. Maybe wait until they’re in their teens and can decide for themselves whether to be ‘rebels’ or, you know, people that can function in a global society.

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Dec 18, 2009
12:41 pm

#54 Skully :

Helen, as always, hilarious View in a Room!

“Wow! Song of the South on DVD! Thanks uncle Billy Joe Bob!”

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Dec 18, 2009
12:45 pm

#55 Moons in Leo :

#4 I’m sorry to say that there are tons o’rednecks in NJ. Big KKK state too. *sigh*

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Dec 18, 2009
12:51 pm

#56 befuddled :

Great to wear in the parade on Secession Drive!

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Dec 18, 2009
1:02 pm

#57 Monstrosa :

Great View in a Room! But you made the dress look so much better. Sleeves and a little white collar? This is a sack with ribbon.

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Dec 18, 2009
1:13 pm

#58 bootsychoo :

#54 Skully
You can’t get Song of the South on DVD, you silly cranium, you.

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Dec 18, 2009
1:25 pm

#59 Skully :

@#58 Bootsychoo: It’s a bootleg copy, (good catch!).

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Dec 18, 2009
1:25 pm

#60 denisewalks :

That little burning cross on the cake actually made me gasp out loud. OMG – brilliant.

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Dec 18, 2009
1:28 pm

#61 HermesGoddess :

Ha! Brilliant view in a room, of course. I half-expected the view in a room to be in the Oval Office, but I guess that’s been done to death already.

FWIW, upstate New York is no slouch when it comes to rednecks. I grew up and then went to college in the Deep South and let me tell you: eastern TN’s got nothing on northern rednecks. Among other things, the guns are bigger up here.

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Dec 18, 2009
1:30 pm

#62 HelenaHandbasket :

I’m a sort of an Angelina mom, and all of my children, born and adopted, are at least partly African American, so we are a fairly culturally sensitive family. I guarantee you that this garment, or any item using a confederate flag, would be seen as EXTREMELY offensive to my kids, down to the youngest at 8 years old. Of course take into account that we’re Northerners, and educated. Besides, whatever fabric it were made of, it’s poorly constructed and UGLY.

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Dec 18, 2009
1:35 pm

#63 Orlana :

I think my neighbors might have heard me laughing. It’s bad enough being from the South and having people assume we’re all a bunch of racists hicks, someone has to go and do this bullshit and add another nail in the coffin.

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Dec 18, 2009
2:28 pm

#64 Moons in Leo :

It’ll give a nice splash of color hanging on the line with the white sheets.

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Dec 18, 2009
3:09 pm

#65 flare :

Brilliant view in room.

I wonder if i order it right now if it will get here in time for Christmas – it’s what my toddler has dreamed of!!

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Dec 18, 2009
3:36 pm

#66 Fartinamitten :

Flare: Does your toddler want to be the “General Lee” next Halloween? If so, you’ll be set.

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Dec 18, 2009
3:43 pm

#67 CoffeeLove :

I live in Florida and the Confederate Flag here is super popular among whites. The blacks get really offended when they see one. I find this flag ugly and racist, and people need to get over what happened in the past.
I knew a girl who wore: Confederate t-shirts, belt-buckles, even hair scrunchies blurted out some really racist crap during my American History class (H.S) discussing Segregation and treatment of blacks, everyone stared at her and gasped.
I wanted to move my seat away from her :/

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Dec 18, 2009
4:53 pm

#68 hammerhead77 :

Southern things to be proud of: peach cobbler, nice beaches, funky regional accent, ability to recover from hurricanes, fried okra, huge oak trees with Spanish moss, ability to withstand ridiculous levels of heat & humidity, sippin’ nectar from honeysuckle blossoms, etc., etc.

Southern things not to be so proud of: hard-headed refusal to industrialize/abandon plantation economy eventually leading to a nasty war, federal troops needed to enforce desegregation laws, etc., etc.

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Dec 18, 2009
6:10 pm

#69 janncri :

I just have to say that as a born and raised (white) southerner, I am extremely offended by the Confederate flag and anyone who says it is “historical” and not racist is a liar or in extremely deep denial.

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Dec 18, 2009
6:16 pm

#70 beqi :

Racist symbols are rarely seen as offensive by the offenders.

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Dec 18, 2009
7:04 pm

#71 rocza :

#39 Bronc Drywall, the swastika still *is* a Buddhist symbol, used daily and through-out the world in many religious circumstances. I realize the point you were trying to make (and as a blonde/pale Buddhist, I won’t wear my swastika jewelry outside of the temple), but it’s a huge mistake to assume a Western-is-normal point of view, especially about religious iconography.

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Dec 18, 2009
8:09 pm

#72 Dix :

Do you get a discount if you buy it with a set of those awful watermelon-eating pickaninny lawn ornaments?

Seriously, where do people come up with this stuff??

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Dec 18, 2009
8:15 pm

#73 Efit :

“This dress is perfect for any little girl.”

WRONG. I can think of about a million little girls this dress is completely imperfect for. For starters, anyone black, anyone educated, anyone not a complete asshole.

btw – Where’s the Say What guy when you need him?

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Dec 18, 2009
9:20 pm

#74 WhimsyMistress :

“140 years after the fact, the wound is still fresh.” This, to be certain, is indisputably true – witness the comments here. As a Southerner born… well, never mind. Changing topics – HK, the view in a room was AWESOME! Where, oh where, did you find a pic of that cake? Or did you photoshop all the stuff onto the cake? Because it had me gasping for breath with laughter and horror!

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Dec 18, 2009
9:52 pm

#75 dscokween :

that there is definitely some ho-made treasure. (of course one man’s treasure is another’s )

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Dec 18, 2009
10:01 pm

#76 dscokween :

meh – i keep breaking the comment filters….what is not said above is ‘fill in the blank’

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Dec 18, 2009
11:21 pm

#77 PussDaddy :

An Easter dress worthy of any Easter Egg Hunt on any white supremacy compound. Imagine how cute your little girl will look scampering across the grass gathering hand grenades and putting them in her basket.

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Dec 18, 2009
11:36 pm

#78 everydaymama1 :

Dear seller of offensive clothing. I would like a matching pair of swastika bloomers and KKK embroidered socks to complete the racist ensemble, as my daughter will be shaving her head and would like to portray how ignorant we are. (*Insert glaringly obvious sarcasm here*)

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Dec 19, 2009
5:49 am

#79 CrimsonHoohah :

Yeah this is terrible but it doesn’t surprise me the woman is from Jersey. I’m a born and bred Jersey girl and there are A LOT of gun toting rednecks here. Especially in the southern NJ where I’m from because there is a lot of open space and forests.

That said I would like to say this particular bit of stupidity and offensiveness is not is not representative of the majority of us.

I hope the Jersey Devil takes her out.

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Dec 19, 2009
4:00 pm

#80 heidrun :

please. please stop comparing a symbol that’s hundreds of years old (the swastika) and has been dramatically changed in its meaning to the original flag of a nation that was founded on racist ideas. makes my head hurt. as does this listing.
there’s nothing that has changed in the meaning of the confederate flag. it has always had that meaning. in contrast to the swastika.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America#Causes_of_secession

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Dec 19, 2009
10:39 pm

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Jan 5, 2010
7:33 pm

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Jan 5, 2010
7:37 pm

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Jan 5, 2010
7:43 pm

#84 Helen Killer :

Thanks for defending our right to free speech!

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Jan 5, 2010
7:58 pm

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Jan 7, 2010
10:06 am

#86 CrazyLady008 :

I CAN believe that this dress sold…after all, what else are children good for other than being little sponges for their parents to pass along their racists beliefs unto? Have you considered that this may have been a Regrestsy gag-gift purchase? Or that someone bought it to burn? Anyone who would actually put their child in this get-up, in this day and age, is either clearly racist or hates their child so much that they are hoping they get beat-up.

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Jan 7, 2010
10:07 am

#87 CrazyLady008 :

And, PS – I have NO qualms about insulting the racism of a racist veteran nor his racist Army wife, so you are welcome.

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Jan 8, 2010
9:00 pm

#88 jbarbie23 :

Aw, you were just honoring veterans? Veterans of a nation of seditious traitors that took up arms against the United States of America? Well, shoot, why didn’t you say so? It’s pretty routine for us to honor our enemies’ veterans a century or so later, right? That’s why all those children in late Victorian era England were running around in some cheap-ass Stars and Stripes pillowcases with dollar store ribbon tied to them! Duh!

I am SO embarrassed that this POS was made by a…

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