What an idiot. Oh yeah I got $4,500 [which will be gone in two weeks]. I have no job and this will stain my resume for any future employment consideration. All because I wanted to worship a relic from the 1800s.
I have observed many relics in the churches here in Bavaria, grizzly collections of bones and skulls. Shall I inform the locals that they are worshipping "relics?"
Maybe we should let this man have his principles, and another his faith. Maybe we should feel a bit of gratitude that this man has won a small battle against the thought police on our behalf.
Try using that argument with black activists...
Perhaps he's an idiot to you, but there are more important things in life than money. I don't think he was worshiping a relic, but rather he was taking pride in his heritage, and exercising his right to display the Confederate flag on his truck. The person who should have been reprimanded was the person who complained! The flag is not obscene nor insulting, so people should have more important things to do than try to tell other people what they can and can't do. A license tag is not harming anyone, and it's time "political correctness' was put to rest. Tampa should have been ordered to give him his job back with pay IMO.
The Confederacy is part of the South's heritage as much as the Union is part of the North's. We've been taught a different form of history than the North has. We were taught, and believe, that the war was fought over States Rights, and there is as much history to support this as it is to support the Northern interpretation that it was fought over slavery. Robert E. Lee had no slaves at the time of the war, but Ulysses S. Grant did! We could probably argue the cause of the War Between the States until doomsday, and not all would agree, but the Southerner should have as much right to honor his heritage, as say, the NAACP. Should we demand that everyone remove a sticker or a license plate if it has an NAACP symbol on it because it offends someone? I don't think so, and I do think it's time for common sense to prevail in the court room and the job place! Perhaps the man who fired him should have his job taken for being intolerant of another person's belief, and for denying him his First Amendment Right.
Would you feel the same way if the man was fired for displaying a Christian flag that may have offended someone? I could be offended regularly by loud rap music, piercings on customer service representatives, pants that are 10 sizes too big and, of course, anyone Liberal bumper stickers. I shrug it off.
Someone was upset about his car.. not his work performance, or his language, or anything relating to his job.
Someone was offended by something displayed on his mode of transportation.
The politically correct police have determined that that the Confederate Flag is offensive to some people though it's been around since the 1800's.
I have a suggestion for the offended masses... hit your head against a wall repeatedly so you have something more important to complain about.
I fully support this guy's right to display this flag, and anyone who would support firing him for it is completely insane. I don't know all the details, do you? Maybe he's already found another job and doesn't want his job back. Mabye he's got money elsewhere. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that if he had a Malcolm X license plate he wouldn't have been fired.
I guess you would support this even if it was the American flag or a Christian flag, which predates the 1800's. The term you use (worship) is poorly chosen IMHO.. Pride maybe, Worship is going out on a far limb.
I have seen better arguments from you Extreme, this one just begs to be chopped down. The tree's core is rotten thru and thru..
No kidding - this guy LOST, Big time!
Yep, let's just remember that we worship a relic from the 1700's the next time we discuss the Constitution.
Such relics should be outlawed, or at best banned on city property.
Don't you agree?
Oh, let's get rid of that racist American Flag. The flag of the nation that was founded with Slavery firmly in place.
If the blacks can have their heritage why can't Southerners? There were BlACK free men who fought on the SIDE of the CONFEDERACY! I am sick, sick, sick of the Confederate Flag being bashed!!
And its people like yourself who will lay down for the crap and let Big Brother walk all over your civil liberties. I say that the man was right in taking a stand. It isn't a relic from the 1800's as it still has meaning to non-PC Southerners.
While we're at it, here's the First Amendment -
But perhaps you'd like to see an amendment thrown in there about "unless its some white Southern dude who displays a Confederate Battle Flag that some people view as offensive."
And I quote "Today, many scholars tend to view First Amendment rights as fundamentally minority rights - the rights of unpopular individuals or groups to speak out against a hostile and repressive majority." - The Bill of Rights Primer, Amar and Adams, copyright 2002.
Sounds to me like we should be thanking the guy for standing up against "the PC establishment" for his right to free speech.