Ah, December. It’s that time of year again. People pretend to love each other. Some people exchange misguided gifts. Others, like South Carolina Rep. Chris Corley, use the season to send out bizarrely offensive holiday-themed cards referencing symbols of hate.
Corley, who very publicly and quite melodramatically opposed the removal of the Confederate flag from state grounds earlier this year, is actually sending his fellow Republicans the holiday cards below:
"May your Christmas be filled with memories of a happier time when South Carolina’s leaders possessed morals, convictions, and the principles to stand for what is right," the card reads, according to New York Daily News. "May you have a blessed Christmas, and may you take this joyous time as an opportunity to ask for forgiveness of all your sins such as betrayal."
The oppressive symbol, of course, was swiftly removed from public displays all across the nation in the wake of the tragic Charleston church massacre that left nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church congregation dead earlier this year. The murderer responsible for the incident, who reportedly subscribed to a white supremacist ideology, was photographed with the Confederate flag. Those photos surfaced in the wake of the tragedy, prompting a nationwide debate on the symbol's place in modern America (Hint: It has no place in modern America).
Corley, however, simply isn't having any of that. "If somebody's feelings are legitimately hurt about that Christmas card, I think that might speak more to their conscience than the content of the card," Corley tells CBS News, seemingly unaware of how ridiculous that sounds. For good measure, Corley's holiday card also reportedly includes a seemingly illogical Inferno reference involving the "deepest levels" of hell.
