General Lee toys are going out of production

"John" (thelowdrag) 06/29/2015 at 16:56 • Filed to: None

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Yep..

Warner Brothers has decided to pull the license on the die-cast General Lee cars.. What are your thoughts?

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > John 06/29/2015 at 16:58

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They were still being made?

RustedSprinter > John 06/29/2015 at 16:59

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WB is a coward.

Justin Hughes > John 06/29/2015 at 17:00

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I’d rather they stop making them entirely than try to pass off a General Lee with no flag on the roof. Negative connotations aside, the flag and the car are inseparable.

For Sweden > John 06/29/2015 at 17:00

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General Lee I don’t really pay attention to die-cast licensing deals.

jvirgs drives a Subaru > Justin Hughes 06/29/2015 at 17:01

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I agree. It either comes with the flag or it should not be made.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > RustedSprinter 06/29/2015 at 17:03

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Yeah and those waving those flags proudly are traitors. So which is worse

TheHondaBro > RustedSprinter 06/29/2015 at 17:04

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I don’t think that’s how that works.

E92M3 > John 06/29/2015 at 17:05

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As long as they don’t ban Daisy Dukes!

SaabLife, because Gripen > John 06/29/2015 at 17:05

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Which would explain why every mouth-breather is trying to cash in on it.

Party-vi > John 06/29/2015 at 17:06

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I’m glad we’re focusing on a flag instead of the real issue - 9 people were gunned down by some unhinged racist fuck that had a gun.

That being said, I’m not shedding any tears over people getting rid of a confederate battle flag that should have been raked over the coals 150 years ago.

For Sweden > Party-vi 06/29/2015 at 17:09

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No one wants to talk about domestic terrorist activity because that’s scary.

Party-vi > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 06/29/2015 at 17:09

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Not so much “traitors” as they are “sore losers”.

Party-vi > For Sweden 06/29/2015 at 17:11

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*nervously perches hands above keyboard, too scared to type a response*

Brian, The Life of > John 06/29/2015 at 17:13

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The best take on the Flag Kerfuffle was written by our friend Zach Bowman. As a 1st-gen Yankee, the first of my family born outside the the confines of the Mason-Dixon line since 1610, his words really, really resonated:

On being Southern.

We’re a proud bunch, us Southerners. And it’s funny because we know what it means to lose. To be beaten. To be fallible. To be wrong. You get born down here in the dirt and you’re given that. The dark, tender knowledge that there’s shame in your blood.

Not all Americans have that. Maybe more should.

So there’s that damn flag. And I could tell you what it means to me as a Southerner, what I was taught to believe it means by a long line of proud history teachers and professors, but it doesn’t matter. Not really. You’ll never see me fly that thing. Never see it in my house. Not because I want to accept its complete assimilation by the ignorant and the hateful, but because of what it means to the millions of lives corrupted, disfigured, mangled, and terminated by the slave trade in the thin and pathetic name of commerce.

It’s not about free speech or expression or honor. It’s about acknowledging our role in one of the greatest atrocities ever perpetrated by one group of humans against another. It’s about bowing your head, not raising your fist.

To quote the sage, “Such is the duality of the Southern Thing.” Pride and shame, all balled up in one piece of cloth.

RustedSprinter > TheHondaBro 06/29/2015 at 17:13

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Then why are they banning the flag? It doesn’t stand for slavery.

TheHondaBro > RustedSprinter 06/29/2015 at 17:14

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And the Nazi flag has nothing to do with the mass genocide of the Jewish people, right?

For Sweden > Party-vi 06/29/2015 at 17:15

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Timothy McVeigh was just a mentally-ill lone wolf, not a terrorist!

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > Brian, The Life of 06/29/2015 at 17:17

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Well said.

qbeezy > John 06/29/2015 at 17:17

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Just take the racist/oppressive flag off. People don’t buy it for the flag. They buy it thinking of then Daisy dukes

Berang > John 06/29/2015 at 17:23

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Is there any aspect of society racists can’t ruin?

WiscoProud > John 06/29/2015 at 17:33

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I’m all for pulling the flag off of statehouses, but eliminating it is too much. This is the same as Apple pulling civil war games for featuring it.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Party-vi 06/29/2015 at 17:45

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Yes but the confederacy was treasonous so the flag represents those traitors

It's a "Porch-uh" > John 06/29/2015 at 17:53

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Do people still buy those? That show has been off the air for 30 years, with one crappy remake film 10 years ago.

Where are my Airwolf toys?!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Party-vi 06/29/2015 at 18:02

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The Confederate butthole battle flag is window dressing on a storefront that sells crack. The store is still in business as usual, but the proprieters are being forced to clean up the front of their store.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > John 06/29/2015 at 18:05

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Here’s to peeling out in bark.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > For Sweden 06/29/2015 at 18:31

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Sheriff Coultrain pulled Daisy over for driving that car without a license but didn’t Charger with anything.

samssun > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 06/29/2015 at 19:30

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The Revolution was “treasonous”, right? That whole Independence nonsense about dissolving political bonds etc. It’s one thing to say someone was wrong, but quite another to try to erase the parts of history you don’t like so as not to offend.

Bird > RustedSprinter 06/29/2015 at 19:46

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Who banned anything? A corporation made a decision to pull something. That’s not banning anything. A Governor calls to stop flying it over state buildings? That’s not a call to ban anything...it’s a call to show some respect.

RustedSprinter > Bird 06/29/2015 at 19:48

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Ebay pulled flags. General Lee had to be discontinued. NASCAR Chairman: Ban Confederate Flag At Races . Hmm looks like its banned to me dude.

RustedSprinter > RustedSprinter 06/29/2015 at 19:53

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Even Apple removed games in the app stores with the flag.

Walmart, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Google Shopping, and Overstock have joined in banning the images of the flag.

Bird > RustedSprinter 06/29/2015 at 20:12

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Corporations can’t ‘ban’ things from existing. They can not produce them, they can not allow them on their property, they can not sell them. That doesn’t mean you’re banned from owning one.

Bird > RustedSprinter 06/29/2015 at 20:13

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I guess my problem here, is you said ‘they’re banning it’. Sure corporations can choose to have nothing to do with a symbol of hatred and racism. That’s their right.

Bird > RustedSprinter 06/29/2015 at 20:15

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From that NASCAR article...the word ban is used by the author for the title. Here is what was actually said:

“That’s what we’re working on — working on how far can we go,” he said. “If there’s more we can do to disassociate ourselves with that flag at our events than we’ve already done, then we want to do it. We are going to be as aggressive as we can to disassociate ourselves with that flag.”

bubblestheturtle > John 06/29/2015 at 22:56

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Overboard. It is appropriate to remove the flag from government buildings. The war was over long ago, and the flag in such a setting is nothing but a poke at black Americans. Removing the flag from such official settings is long overdue. Especially from places that purportedly represent "all of the citizens". But to go into a tizzy that approaches history erasure is a bit much. The flag itself is still a part of US history and believing that removing it from any public view will magically solve any social/racial problem is not only a (far) left-wing fantasy, but also plays into the old George Santayana quote; “Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it”. Apparently, Apple wants the flag removed from a game about the civil war. Overboard.

ptak appreciates old racecars > For Sweden 06/30/2015 at 06:31

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Get out.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > samssun 06/30/2015 at 13:16

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Yeah but we actually won the American Revolution. The confederacy did not win. The south still waving those flags around is just as bad as if Germans were still waving national socialist part flags around. They were treasonous and got put in their place

BRyan31122 > John 06/30/2015 at 16:17

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The General Lee is a piece of Pop-Culture history, and should not be discontinued. Selling the die cast car is not a statement of support for the confederate idea of secession, but rather a means of sharing an icon from a bygone era.

samssun > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 06/30/2015 at 18:57

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So it’s treasonous if you lose? Or it just matches what you agree with? Curious how you’d feel about, say, flags and other signs of Scottish, South Vietnamese, Taiwanese, or Hong Kong heritage. They all lost, so treasonous all around?