Confederate Motorcycles = KKK

[RandyFloyd]

http://www.steadyonthehumble.com/?p=812

Interesting article...

[lawbreaker]

I think your post title is a bit much........ By appearance alone you equate the company with the klan, and that seems to be solely based on  the loose naming of a bike they made/named long ago....



but it made me look.



I dig Confederate bikes, particularly the Wraith

[Slide Panda]

The guy who wrote that commuted a journalistic sin of not doing his research

"I'm now VERY curious about that logo… it's open to interpretation and every person's sensibilities will vary, but I have the sneaking suspicion that the little dude in the logo is actually cracking a whip. Now, if he is cracking a whip, what exactly is he whipping? Am I missing something here?"

Yes you're missing something, research.  Two clicks on their site brings you to a page that says the logo is David, of David and Goliath.  This guy needed a tin foil hat.

I'm no fan of associations the stars n bars has... but I'm less of a fan of spurious conclusions like that.

[El Matador]

Oh my god! Something that if twisted enough and doublethought can be construed as racist! Somebody call Jesse Jackson! Only HE can save us now....




Idiot

[GAAN]

Hellcat is a neat bike

Wraith wastes a cool name on a lame bike, should have named it Mantis given that hideous front end

P120 is very interesting

but

as with all Confederate bikes

the seat

makes my prostate hurt just looking at it

[battlecry]

I'm so tired of people looking for something to offend them.  Now at least I know that the easily offended race baiters will not want to be seen riding one.  

Good riddance, and best wishes to the folks at Confederate.  

[ducatiz]

I have to say that makes me a mite nervous..

Naming a bike after Nathan Bedford Forrest is pretty sketchy.

Then again, they also named a bike after CSA's VP Judah P Benjamin who was Jewish, which would not be kosher with the KKK at all.

[Turf]

Oh my god! Something that if twisted enough and doublethought can be construed as racist! Somebody call Jesse Jackson! Only HE can save us now....




Idiot

+1

[sbrguy]

well it is intereting that the company would not respond or even deny and say the journalist is wrong. 

silence at times will say as much as a guilty admission.

personally i think their bikes are downright ugly but hey each to their own.

[Slide Panda]

well it is intereting that the company would not respond or even deny and say the journalist is wrong. 

silence at times will say as much as a guilty admission.

Interesting, but not condemning. It's a small company that probably doesn't have anyone set to deal with emails. Shit slips through the cracks. Could also have been a case of them getting the email and saying "Oh man, not this nut job" and tossing it in lieu of dealing with a Troll. Of course it's possible he's right... But really I doubt it's some racist/KKK conspiratorial business they are running - it's just too complicated.

Assuming something is true because you lack proof to the contrary is flawed logic.

[fastwin]

silence at times will say as much as a guilty admission.

Hope you are never on my jury.

[Howie]

All I can say is when they were at Javits Center last year an owner was there accompanied by one of his key sales reps.  The sales rep was a young black guy.

[Popeye the Sailor]

He says they haven't responded, and who knows how long he gave them, or if they would even take the "Is your logo racist (or whatever the make the beast with two backs he asked them) seriously. Utter horseshit.



This is how it works. I sent SBRguy a PM (ten minutes ago) the asking if he did indeed, grind up kittens to feed to Michael Vicks dogs.


He hasn't responded-the silence only assures his guilt.


See how that works?

[battlecry]

The "journalist" is an attention-seeking race-baiting offended person of color.  The bike is what it is.  The "journalist" made the KKK connection in his psyche, and brought his race into it.   It is not Confederate's job to set this guy right, show him he's wrong and deny him of the chip on the shoulder, victimhood, and all that nonsense.  

The guy is on a mission to bring Confederate into PC conformity.  Ain't going to work.

Don't read more into the silence than what it is, they are building unconventional and non-conforming bikes and ignoring an attention seeking little person who wants to inject his agenda into their agenda.

Other than that, nice bike pictures.  

[GAAN]

He says they haven't responded, and who knows how long he gave them, or if they would even take the "Is your logo racist (or whatever the make the beast with two backs he asked them) seriously. Utter horseshit.



This is how it works. I sent SBRguy a PM (ten minutes ago) the asking if he did indeed, grind up kittens to feed to Michael Vicks dogs.


He hasn't responded-the silence only assures his guilt.


See how that works?

funny

I sent one to you 4 days ago asking about the score of missing hookers from SF

still no reply...