Walmart Apologizes for Making ISIS Cake for Man Denied Confederate Flag Design
Jun 29, 2015, 1:23 PM ET
By SUSANNA KIM
A man in Louisiana is asking for an explanation from Walmart after his request for a Confederate flag cake at one of its bakeries was rejected, but a design with the ISIS flag was accepted.
Chuck Netzhammer said he ordered the image of the Confederate flag on a cake with the words, "Heritage Not Hate," on Thursday at a Walmart in Slidell, Louisiana. But the bakery denied his request, he said. At some point later, he ordered the image of the ISIS flag that represents the terrorist group.
"I went back yesterday and managed to get an ISIS battleflag printed. ISIS happens to be somebody who we're fighting against right now who are killing our men and boys overseas and are beheading Christians," Netzhammer said.
A spokesman for Walmart told ABC News, "An associate in a local store did not know what the design meant* and made a mistake. The cake should not have been made and we apologize."
What are they apologising for exactly ? Other than letting themselves be made fools of.
Let's just ban everything. All visual expressions that might conceivably offend someone somewhere somehow. Although maybe we could add a tiny exemption for repeating geometrical patterns and verses of the...
* 'Did not know what the design meant' ? You're shitting me, surely ?
