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24 Mar 2019, 10:13 am

Lewd billboard supporting 'Confederate heritage' pops up on Texas highway: 'It's just disrespectful

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A lewd billboard promoting the Confederate flag and depicting a cartoon character urinating on the Dallas skyline has appeared on a major highway in Kemp, Texas. Residents are now engaged in a heated debate about whether or not the sign constitutes free speech.

“It’s a vulgar sign, and it faces a daycare,” said Kemp mayor Laura Peace of the billboard on Highway 175, about 45 miles southeast of Dallas, according to Fox 4 News.

The sign, which reads, “I support Confederate heritage,” was reportedly put up to protest the removal of Confederate monuments throughout Dallas per recent decisions made by the City Council.

Passersby have been reacting to the billboard mainly with disdain — even those who acknowledge the right to express support for the Confederate flag.

Some were conflicted, with one person tweeting, “I support Confederate heritage, I was raised in the South. That does NOT mean I support racism. This is inappropriate and ugly, however … I also support freedom of speech … someone used their $ to put this up, let it run ’til someone else replaces it.”

Mayor Peace said the matter is out of her hands. “This billboard is not in the City of Kemp city limits, therefore we have no jurisdiction,” she said, according to InForney.com. However, “Politics aside, I would think that … most people would be appalled at the vulgarity of a man urinating on public display.”


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24 Mar 2019, 10:27 am

Oh, please!

I remember when it was insane *not* to have one of those Calvin decals or T-shirts where he was peeing on something.


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24 Mar 2019, 10:36 am

Those "Calvin" decals and shirts were not legal or official products. Bill Watterson had decided he didn't want any merchandise of Calvin and Hobbes at all, not even in a card wishing someone a happy anniversary. In his 10th anniversary book he said only thieves and vandals made money of of Calvin and Hobbes merch.

This didn't stop me from asking if someone had any T-shirts of Calvin peeing on Hobbes, which they didn't. Now that I think about, Calvin taking a whizz on Hobbes is something I really don't want to see, anyway.



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24 Mar 2019, 10:39 am

To support the “Confederate Heritage” is to support slavery, armed insurrection, and the losers in the War of Southern Rebellion.

It is wrong to honor losers.



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24 Mar 2019, 10:55 am

I can understand the Southern pride argument, though they should consider a new flag for that.

That said, though, Squidbillies is a very funny show.


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24 Mar 2019, 4:24 pm

Fnord wrote:
To support the “Confederate Heritage” is to support slavery, armed insurrection, and the losers in the War of Southern Rebellion.

It is wrong to honor losers.


Yeah you're right instead we should honor the pryomanical rapists with a white savior complex just because they won that BS war. :roll:


Sorry, I don't support those Union Tyrants.



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24 Mar 2019, 4:28 pm

And I don't support Amuuurica either. I can't wait for this evil empire to collapse! After that your precious Union can go f**k itself.



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24 Mar 2019, 5:46 pm

Fnord wrote:
It is wrong to honor losers.

No it's not. By that logic, you wouldn't honor anyone who died in battle because they lost.



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24 Mar 2019, 6:12 pm

Why can't we just admit that BOTH sides of that stupid war did evil things? :roll:

Neither side deserves any honor in my honest opinion.



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25 Mar 2019, 8:46 am

TW1ZTY wrote:
Fnord wrote:
To support the “Confederate Heritage” is to support slavery, armed insurrection, and the losers in the War of Southern Rebellion. It is wrong to honor losers.
Yeah you're right instead we should honor the pryomanical rapists with a white savior complex just because they won that BS war. Sorry, I don't support those Union Tyrants.
You don't have to -- they're all dead. There are plenty of live Union tyrants around to love.



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25 Mar 2019, 8:50 am

Fnord wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
Fnord wrote:
To support the “Confederate Heritage” is to support slavery, armed insurrection, and the losers in the War of Southern Rebellion. It is wrong to honor losers.
Yeah you're right instead we should honor the pryomanical rapists with a white savior complex just because they won that BS war. Sorry, I don't support those Union Tyrants.
You don't have to -- they're all dead. There are plenty of live Union tyrants around to love.


You're a smug son of a b***h. I hate you.



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25 Mar 2019, 9:00 am

TW1ZTY wrote:
Fnord wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
Fnord wrote:
To support the “Confederate Heritage” is to support slavery, armed insurrection, and the losers in the War of Southern Rebellion. It is wrong to honor losers.
Yeah you're right instead we should honor the pryomanical rapists with a white savior complex just because they won that BS war. Sorry, I don't support those Union Tyrants.
You don't have to -- they're all dead. There are plenty of live Union tyrants around to love.
You're a smug son of a b***h. I hate you.
Yeah, being right is such a burden.



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25 Mar 2019, 9:03 am

Fnord wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
Fnord wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
Fnord wrote:
To support the “Confederate Heritage” is to support slavery, armed insurrection, and the losers in the War of Southern Rebellion. It is wrong to honor losers.
Yeah you're right instead we should honor the pryomanical rapists with a white savior complex just because they won that BS war. Sorry, I don't support those Union Tyrants.
You don't have to -- they're all dead. There are plenty of live Union tyrants around to love.
You're a smug son of a b***h. I hate you.
Yeah, being right is such a burden.


I'm sure that's the ONLY thing that matters to you. You being right and everybody else being wrong. It must be very lonely for people like you.



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25 Mar 2019, 9:41 am

TW1ZTY wrote:
Fnord wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
Fnord wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
Fnord wrote:
To support the “Confederate Heritage” is to support slavery, armed insurrection, and the losers in the War of Southern Rebellion. It is wrong to honor losers.
Yeah you're right instead we should honor the pryomanical rapists with a white savior complex just because they won that BS war. Sorry, I don't support those Union Tyrants.
You don't have to -- they're all dead. There are plenty of live Union tyrants around to love.
You're a smug son of a b***h. I hate you.
Yeah, being right is such a burden.
I'm sure that's the ONLY thing that matters to you. You being right and everybody else being wrong. It must be very lonely for people like you.
It's not so bad. The peace and quiet is worth it. I get a lot of work done that way.



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25 Mar 2019, 10:36 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
Oh, please!

I remember when it was insane *not* to have one of those Calvin decals or T-shirts where he was peeing on something.

Yeah. In fact it seems that that Calvin thing has been appropriated for politics before. Prolly a new trend. I saw some guy in a pick up truck just a couple days ago with a bumper sticker with Calviny looking cartoon Trump urinating on something or other with the words "pissing on Liberals". So ...look forward to more of that sorta thing. I guess we are becoming a "urine nation". Lol!



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26 Mar 2019, 2:59 pm

...I presume/d it was of Calvin, put the piece does not say so. Could someone link to a picture of it, please?
I followed the link but it's not very clear/large and I can't tell if it's Calvin.


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