{"id":6328,"date":"2015-06-30T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=6328"},"modified":"2015-06-30T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:07:30","slug":"wal-mart-policy-isis-but-not-confederates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/30\/wal-mart-policy-isis-but-not-confederates\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Policy: ISIS but not Confederates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Just another sign that America as a whole has no friggin clue-<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/cake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6329\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/cake.jpg\" alt=\"cake\" width=\"176\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"article-header-inner\">\n<p class=\"article-topic\">\n<h1 class=\"article-title\">Walmart Sorry for Making an Islamic State Cake \u2014 After Refusing Confederate Flag Cake<\/h1>\n<div class=\"right-rail\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"author\">By<a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/contributor\/vice-news\"> VICE News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 30, 2015 | 10:25 am<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"left-column\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<header class=\"article-header\"><\/header>\n<section class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"left-column\">\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<p>Walmart is apologizing\u00a0for baking a cake decorated with the flag of the so-called\u00a0Islamic State\u00a0after a Louisiana employee of the retail chain had refused to make a cake with a Confederate flag on it.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Netzhammer went to a Walmart\u00a0in Slidell, Louisiana last week to get a personalized cake with a Confederate flag on it and the slogan &#8220;Heritage Not Hate.&#8221; The retailer, however, had just announced it would stop selling Confederate flag merchandise in response to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/website-surfaces-with-disturbing-photos-and-manifesto-purportedly-written-by-dylann-roof\">Charleston church shooting<\/a>, so the store refused to bake the cake for Netzhammer.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the denial, Netzhammer then placed an order for another sheet cake \u2014 this time with the\u00a0black and white flag brandished by the so-called Islamic State, also known as ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went back yesterday and managed to get an ISIS battle flag printed. ISIS happens to be somebody who we&#8217;re fighting against right now, who are killing our men and boys overseas and are beheading Christians,&#8221; he told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Netzhammer uploaded video footage of the cake<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q7ePFollQQE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> on YouTube<\/a>, where he points out that while you can no longer buy a <em>Dukes of Hazard<\/em> General Lee car with a Confederate flag on it at the chain,\u00a0a customer can purchase a sheet cake with an &#8220;ISIS battle flag&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/walmart-sorry-for-making-an-islamic-state-cake-after-refusing-confederate-flag-cake\"> VICE News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just another sign that America as a whole has no friggin clue- &nbsp; Walmart Sorry for Making an Islamic State Cake \u2014 After Refusing Confederate Flag Cake By VICE News June 30, 2015 | 10:25 am Walmart is apologizing\u00a0for baking a cake decorated with the flag of the so-called\u00a0Islamic State\u00a0after a Louisiana employee of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,272],"tags":[1659,1660,1661,1662],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}