Tennessee hat shop hatWRKS apologizes for posting Star of David 'Not Vaccinated' patch...

[Eugene]

Earlier DU threads:

• Stetson hats ceases business with Nashville HatWRKS
• Looks like the owner of hatWRKS hasn't learned a single thing.

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Source: Nashville Tennessean

Tennessee hat shop apologizes for posting Star of David 'Not Vaccinated' patch; Jewish groups decry social media post

Sandy Mazza, Nashville Tennessean
Sun, May 30, 2021, 6:58 PM·3 min read

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee hat seller removed an Instagram post after fueling social media controversy selling a patch that looks like the Jewish Star of David.

HatWRKS, run by hatmaker Gigi Gaskins, posted a photo of a woman wearing a bright yellow star sticker with the words: "Not Vaccinated."

Social media users responded with the hashtag #HateWorks, calling the patch anti-Semitic and "disgusting." The original Instagram post had thousands of comments before being taken down.

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Hatwrks later posted an apology Saturday, stating the business did not mean to "trivialize" or "disrespect" what happened during the Holocaust.

"In no way did I intend to trivialize the Star of David or disrespect what happened to millions of people. That is not who I am & what I stand for. My intent was not to exploit or make a profit."

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/tennessee-hat-shop-under-fire-173659113.html

[ret5hd]

1. I think you are well on your way to "not make a profit."

Good on you for accomplishing your goals!

[Skittles]

2. "that is not who I am"

that is EXACTLY who you fucking are

[Initech]

9. THIS!!!!

Fuck HatWRKS!

[ChubbyStar]

11. My late great Nan used to say, "Go shit in your hat!"

Who knew this lady was listening to her?

[Skittles]

15. LOL

[secondwind]

3. She's not sorry one bit.

[rsdsharp]

4. Well, I think she's sorry she flushed her business down the toilet.

The anti semitism, not so much.

[SCantiGOP]

5. "That's not who I am"

Never seems to come until the transgressor is called out and starts later sing money.

[Sneederbunk]

6. A quiet cash register actually makes a lot of noise.

[JHB]

7. Step 1: Do terrible thing

Step 2: Double down and deride anyone who thought your thing was terrible

Step 3: Gain a clue that maaaaybe this is not just "triggering" some "snowflakes", that there's a lot of people who are very much unamused at your using one of history's horrors as your own little toy to play with, and the consequences are coming back to bite you.

Step 4: Issue half-assed so-called apology.

Waiting for Step 5: Whining about "persecution" to conservative media.

[eilen]

20. Step 6, MAGA Heads and Qtips "boycott" Stetson and make Youtube videos of burning them

Step 7, She starts a GoFundMe to save her business and raises more that Marsha Blackburn's re-election campaign does in the same time period.

Step 8, Marsha visits the freak's hat shop for a photo-op for some shared resentment/persecution porn.

[PortTack]

8. She's being dumped BIG time! Stetson along with 2 other big time hat makers told her to

Remove their names from her web site, and return all unsold merchandise..boycotts work!!

[Deuxcents]

10. Who in their right mind

Thought this was ok? This is an example of an uneducated society. Some are so dumb downed it’s heartbreaking.

[WVreaper]

12. She's only sorry about all the bad publicity.

[area51]

13. "In no way did I intend to trivialize the Star of David...."

Riiiiight.

[StarfishSaver]

14. As usual, Trumpers think they can get away with the same crap their idol does

But when they emulate him, they find out they can't and by the time they figure it out, they've lost their businesses, their liberty, and their reputations.

[Solly Mack]

16. She runs a business, she put a new item up for sale, but didn't plan to profit from it?

Posted a photo of herself - and that is her in the post - looking smug while showcasing said product - a product that claims those who don't want to get a Covid-19 vaccine are being treated like Jewish people were treated under the Nazis - but she wasn't trying to exploit, wasn't trying to trivialize, or be disrespectful?

But, according to her in another post, she list "desecrating monuments" (Pulling down Confederate statues that celebrate those who fought to keep slavery) and the act of protesting (against police brutality) as doing "unforgivable harm".

She says this isn't who she is - but evidence would indicate otherwise.

She put her thinking out into the "marketplace of ideas" and in the literal market and met resistance on both counts.

But she's the victim (she bemoans the "hate" coming her way in another post)? She claims she has never spewed hate at anyone else.

But she did attend the January 6, 2021 insurrection and was "proud" to be there and get a photo, she does embrace the lies about the election, she does embrace conspiracy theories about "chips" in the Covid-19 vaccine, as well as other assorted Qanon conspiracy theories, and she's a Trump supporter.

Alrighty then.

[Crowman2009]

17. So she's just sorry for the words.

Definitely not apologizing for thinking a disease that killed 500k is a joke, or equivocating medical experts with the gestapo.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

18. "Didn't mean to do it"?

Bullshit. It was an exquisite moment of truth. You “dropped trou” and showed the world the wretched person you are.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. She TRIPLED Down, Then Apologized?!?!?

When protestors showed up and caused economic impact, & 3 major hat makers said "See Ya", then she realized she was wrong? And sincerely apologizes?
Yeah, right.

[11 Bravo]

21. Unless she was GIVING the fucking stickers away, her denial of ...

attempting to "make a profit" from the damned things is an obvious, bald-faced lie.

[cab67]

22. 'This is not who I am or what I stand for.'

Yes, it is.