#TakeItDown #tcot #BlackLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter /QJ6dqSIA86 The #WDBJ shooter was a black fag? Time to take these flags down. The shooter was gay? Ban the rainbow #FlagofHate #racism #takeitdown #VirginiaShooting /ejsziwvz2a €” Ben Shapiro August 27, how long must we see this MURDER FLAG of HATE everywhere we go? How many more heteros need to die before we #TakeItDown? #SJWs “In a raid on the apartment on Wednesday, police reportedly confiscated a gay pride flag.” #TakeItDown
![confederate gay flag meme confederate gay flag meme](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RqIbaMH0L._SY445_QL70_.jpg)
Meanwhile, yesterday, Raw Story’s David Edwards called this attack on the gay pride flag a “ petty grudge-mongering tantrum,” and posted tweets from conservatives, like Breitbart editor-at-large Ben Shapiro, whom Edwards labels a “perennial self-declared victim.” InfoWars, the far-right wing conspiracy site, offered this yesterday: “The gay pride rainbow flag reportedly found in Flanagan’s apartment is seen by many as a symbol of anti-Christian hate ,” he added, failing to mention he has been among the leaders propagating that ludicrous claim. In an apparent hate crime, Flanagan is the 41 year-old black journalist who murdered two white Virginia reporters on live television Wednesday morning before turning his gun on himself,” Nolte wrote. “The Daily Telegraph has learned that ‘police reportedly confiscated a gay pride flag’ from the apartment of Vester Lee Flanagan Wednesday. Over at the racist and homophobic Breitbart News, John Nolte once again purveyed his filth. That belief system is one of hate, oppression, slavery, racism, and white supremacy. So just because these buttons exist doesn’t mean they were sanctioned or approved by the campaign.Dylan Roof did not just “own” a Confederate flag, he posed with it and used the belief system it represents to murder nine people. Buttonmakers were never hard to come by, and anyone who wanted to could make his or her own, offering whatever sentiment they wanted to. In the 1980s and 1990s, buttons played part of the role that Etsy, Zazzle and Cafepress play now. If you look at other Clinton-Gore buttons, nearly all - but not all - have a bug somewhere. One indicator that it isn’t official is that it lacks a union “bug,” the little marker showing that a piece of campaign material was printed in a union shop. It’s important to note that there is no indicator that these buttons were actually made and distributed by the actual Clinton-Gore campaign. “Not appropriate then,” he said, “and not appropriate now.” He said if it had been pitched to him, it wouldn’t have gotten past his desk. Smith said he thought the buttons were likely made by someone unaffiliated with the campaign looking to make a buck.
![confederate gay flag meme confederate gay flag meme](https://pics.me.me/tread-on-me-probably-gay-furries-carrying-a-rainbow-dont-7412740.png)
The button in question, and others featuring similar designs for sale or sold on eBay, does not show any indication of being union-made. “If it didn’t have a union bug, we weren’t making them,” he said, “and we definitely weren’t handing them out.” Every item, he said, had to be made in the United States by union workers. Among his responsibilities on the trail was allocating staff to states and sending out campaign materials, like house party kits, t-shirts, yard signs and buttons, nationwide. Clinton’s campaign in 1992, before moving on to work in the Clinton White House.
![confederate gay flag meme confederate gay flag meme](https://i.imgflip.com/2/o0g06.jpg)
“I’ve never seen these buttons,” Craig Smith. A longtime Clinton aide and 1992 campaign operative asserted that the pictured pin not an official Clinton-Gore campaign button:Īccording to a longtime aide to former President Bill Clinton, the button was not an official campaign item. However, solid evidence is lacking that the item seen above actually dates from 1992 and was authorized by the Clinton national campaign (rather than being a privately-made or other local item). The button, supposedly from the victorious Clinton-Gore presidential ticket, was notable for using the Confederate battle flag as its motif (a tie-in to the fact that the two candidates hailed from the former Confederate states of Arkansas and Tennessee)Ĭopies of the button were also offered for sale via the online auction site eBay. In June 2015, in the midst of a national controversy over the continued flying of a Confederate flag on South Carolina State House Building grounds (especially in the wake of a recent racially-motivated shooting at a South Carolina church that left nine people dead), images of a purported 1992 political campaign button began to pop up online.