Comrades, Bed Bath & Beyond has marketed a scented candle that smells like a burning cross on your front lawn even before you light the wick. It's the Ku-est candle since Klux came to Klan Town and it's already been nicknamed The Klandle.
BB&B's "Snowed-in" scented candle.
It's ridiculous that anyone at BB&B chose to approve The Klandle's label design without seeing it's obvoius potential for negative controversy. It was a dumb choice. Now comes the overreaction. Rather than calling it stupid, a few subreddit commenters have called it "offensive."
What's really offensive is that news reporters scurried over to the thoroughly discredited, far-left, race-grifting racket—the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center)—to verify the offensiveness of The Klandle. Why the SPLC? Because the SPLC slaps its "offensive label" on anything that conflicts with the Democrat agenda even though the KKK arose from the Democrat Party after the Civil War.
The Democrat-owned press can't allow the KKK to become a controversy again so close to Election Day—it's a skeleton in DNC's closet.
All that aside, this sort of controversy has happened before in a much more muted, pre-internet time, the 1950s and 1960s, when Droodles were popular and Texaco changed its decades-old logo. What are Droodles? Visual joke drawings that make no sense until you know their titles (punchlines). Example:
One KKK-themed droodle that may also have been around for decades could easily be made by adding dots to the ubiquitous Texaco logo:
I won't give the punchline, but it involves the KKK and a view from the bottom of a well. There's no telling whether this influenced the change to the Texaco logo but it's a possibility.
The KKK started as the militant arm of the post-Civil War Democrat Party. It was yesterday's Antifa and Democrats didn't even begin to disassociate themselves from the KKK until the mid 1960s. So here's another possibility: as a public service, use the same BB&B package design to promote awareness of the Democrat origin of the KKK so the offensiveness is righteously shared and voters fully informed.
10/16/2024, 8:38 am
Red Salmon
Most Equally Esteemed Comrade Colonel,
I am amazed at the spare time some progs seem to have on their hands. All this “offense” is certainly a first world problem. Once we achieve the GWONT the first world will be languishing in the memory hole. Then we will not have to listen to the sniveling. The moaning and screams will drown it out. The Party will save us from the petty offense.
Red Salmon
10/16/2024, 12:16 pm
jackalopelipsky
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) says the Klandle is more of Trump’s Jim Crow 2.0.
Burn Klandle, burn.
On a survivalist note — the jackalope wonders how soon we can get Klandles at discount price at the local T.J. Maxx or Marshall’s — as such things are handy when electricity goes GWONT. Capitalism knows how to survive!
Off topic, but Comrade Clara I’ll Bust Your Balls Zetkin, her Sainted Granny and hubby, all hail from Asheville area. Prayers to ya, girlfriend!! Lighting a Klandle for the whole Zetkin clan.
10/22/2024, 12:17 pm
Lyman DeKoquonut
If you fail to find something racist in everything you see, you have failed the cause. It's there, no matter how much you have to stretch it.
Comrades, Bed Bath & Beyond has marketed a scented candle that smells like a burning cross on your front lawn even before you light the wick. It's the Ku-est candle since Klux came to Klan Town and it's already been nicknamed The Klandle.
It's ridiculous that anyone at BB&B chose to approve The Klandle's label design without seeing it's obvoius potential for negative controversy. It was a dumb choice. Now comes the overreaction. Rather than calling it stupid, a few subreddit commenters have called it "offensive."
What's really offensive is that news reporters scurried over to the thoroughly discredited, far-left, race-grifting racket—the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center)—to verify the offensiveness of The Klandle. Why the SPLC? Because the SPLC slaps its "offensive label" on anything that conflicts with the Democrat agenda even though the KKK arose from the Democrat Party after the Civil War.
The Democrat-owned press can't allow the KKK to become a controversy again so close to Election Day—it's a skeleton in DNC's closet.
All that aside, this sort of controversy has happened before in a much more muted, pre-internet time, the 1950s and 1960s, when Droodles were popular and Texaco changed its decades-old logo. What are Droodles? Visual joke drawings that make no sense until you know their titles (punchlines). Example:
One KKK-themed droodle that may also have been around for decades could easily be made by adding dots to the ubiquitous Texaco logo:
I won't give the punchline, but it involves the KKK and a view from the bottom of a well. There's no telling whether this influenced the change to the Texaco logo but it's a possibility.
The KKK started as the militant arm of the post-Civil War Democrat Party. It was yesterday's Antifa and Democrats didn't even begin to disassociate themselves from the KKK until the mid 1960s. So here's another possibility: as a public service, use the same BB&B package design to promote awareness of the Democrat origin of the KKK so the offensiveness is righteously shared and voters fully informed.
How do you find this stuff? I've never hear of droodles before, but the comparison is spot on.
