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Lowe’s Would Again Like To Remind Customers That Our Tiki Torches Are Exclusively Meant For Burning American Flags

This weekend, images from the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, VA were widely circulated, showing white supremacists marching with tiki torches as they chanted Nazi-associated slogans. The events in Charlottesville have once again forced Lowe’s Home Improvement, one of the country’s largest vendors of tiki torches, to remind our customers that our tiki torches are meant to be used exclusively for burning American flags.

There should be no ambiguity here.

Thanks to their durable design and long-lasting, refillable fuel canisters, our bamboo tiki torches are the ideal implement for torching the American flag. It should thus go without saying that using our tiki torches for things like neo-Nazi rallies, backyard luaus, or restaurant decor is wildly inappropriate. The only proper use of a Lowe’s tiki torch is in the safe, controlled immolation of the symbol of American imperialism, slavery, and genocide.

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