The Bloomsburg Fair president made the decision to kick out that vendor, Lawrence Betsinger, after fair officials found out he is a registered sex offender. It created a firestorm of controversy that the fair took care of on Monday. Imagine unironically claiming that being gay is discrimination against straight people, while defending a flag representing hate against black people and defending slavery. Betsinger was asked to leave after it was revealed that he was also a registered sex offender:Ī picture posted on social media showed a vendor at the Bloomsburg Fair displaying a huge Nazi flag. Conservative logic is so braindead it's actually hard to comprehend how people actually can buy into it. Officials also found that the vendor, Lawrence Betsinger, was selling stickers and other memorabilia inappropriate for the fair.
Whenever someone brings something like this to our attention, we always discuss it with the vendor and take any steps to maintain a family-fun atmosphere at our fair.” Unfortunately, we have over 1200 vendors on our fairgrounds and it’s difficult to monitor each one individually. Most posts were made after midnight, and as soon as we were made aware of it early this morning, we took the appropriate action with the vendor to remove those items. “We were initially unaware of the flag and other merchandise being displayed by a vendor on our fairgrounds. It stands for the hatred and destruction of a religion I feel blessed to be a part of.īloomsburg Fair officials removed the offensive flag shortly after these photographs went viral on social media:īloomsburg Fair President Paul Reichart has issued a statement in reference to earlier posts on our Facebook wall regarding the questionable flag that a vendor was displaying at the fairgrounds: This flag represents the brutal and horrific genocide of innocent people. The photograph showing the Nazi flag appears to have been taken by Pennsylvania resident Chloe Winters, who originally posted it on social media with a message stating that she was “shocked and appalled” that a swastika flag was on display at the fair: The photographs were snapped more than two years earlier (before the election of Donald Trump) at the Bloomsburg Fair in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, in September 2016. These pictures are genuine, but they were not recent in October 2018, nor were they taken at a rally for President Trump that month. They’re proud of their racism and homophobia.” These images were often shared with the caption “Found at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.
Do it now.Photographs purportedly showing a vendor displaying Nazi flags and homophobic stickers along with pro-Trump merchandise at a recent Pennsylvania rally for President Trump started making their way around social media in October 2018: In the United States, public display of the flag has been a long-standing issue of national debate due to its historically symbolic association with the. “Take down the flag,” Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in a blog post for The Atlantic. The Confederate flag, also known as Dixie flag or Southern Cross, is the most well-known variant of the three national flags adopted by the Confederate States of America (CSA) during its existence in the American Civil War. The sight has prompted a surge of calls to have it taken down entirely. But the Confederate one, which flies on a separate pole on the state house grounds, is not, creating a sight that many people see as an ugly symbol of the racism that motivated Roof. Now that Dylann Roof has been arrested on charges of killing nine people at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, America's eyes and anger have turned toward the Confederate flag flying outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia.Īt present, the other two flags at the state house, an American flag and South Carolina's palmetto and crescent moon flag, are at half-staff, and will remain that way for nine days in honor of the nine victims.