Posted on 08/10/2016 10:57:46 AM PDT by reaganaut1
When I was young, a phrase I heard rather frequently was “Don’t make a federal case out of it.” These days, however, you don’t hear that so often, probably because it’s now ridiculously common and absurdly easy for people to “make a federal case” out of nothing more than a gripe – provided it’s a politically correct gripe.
As an example, consider the recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) case involving a post office worker who complained of illegal “workplace harassment” because another worker persisted in wearing a cap with the Gadsden Flag and its “Don’t Tread on Me” motto.
That’s the kind of petty complaint that we must now pay federal bureaucrats to investigate and resolve.
Back in 2014, a maintenance mechanic working for the U.S. Postal Service in Denver filed a complaint stating that he found the cap “racially offensive to African Americans” because the flag on it was designed by Christopher Gadsden, who, back in the 18th century, was a slave owner and trader. USPS management tried to mollify the complainant (called “Shelton D.” in case documents) and said that the other worker would be told to stop wearing the offending cap. But that worker kept on wearing it and, making matters much worse, the USPS then dismissed the complaint on the grounds that it failed to state a “cognizable claim of discrimination.”
So, not getting satisfaction from the Postal Service, Shelton D. did just what more and more Americans now do when annoyed – complain to a federal agency. The agency tasked with making all our places of work free from any actual or imagined discrimination of any sort is the EEOC.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I used to hear “it’s a free country” a lot when I was growing up too. Don’t hear that so often these days. I do hear a lot of “there ought to be a law” though. We were better off before.
We need to turn this on liberals. When someone wears a Che shirt or a Black Lives Matter hat or something with some other left-wing icon, file a complaint. This is the only way to get this to stop, unfortunately.
Wow. I have not heard ‘don’t make a federal case out of it’ in ages. I had totally forgotten that one.
Even on FR there are people who call for things that would be constitutionally unthinkable by traditional standards — if it’s in the interest in giving a malefactor “just desserts.” So this kind of bias against settled law is not just a liberal thang.
They whole thing can be summed up as a whiny liberal snowflake was “offended”. Which goes against his constitutional right to not be offended.
Sounds to me like they are treading on that fellow
As someone pointed out on a related thread, they’d better get those slave-owners off the money...
Not a Southerner myself, but this mindset will go back to the time when all states had legalized slavery...
There have been schools that have attempted to prohibit the wearing of the American flag on shirts, or displaying it on a backpack.
IIRC, there was a case some years ago of a fire department that forbad the display of American flags on fire trucks.
My recollection is that these attempts were dropped after the public became aware of them. It’s only a matter of time before that public outcry no longer happens.
I bet most of the public would be unaware that Gadsen was a slave owner, let alone who he was and that he designed the flag.
This stretches to the point of absurdity, even by today’s standards.
It appears that this “snowflake” is offended by a flag designed by a man who once owned slaves.
Has anyone pointed out to him that he lives in a country whose very capital city, WASHINGTON, is owned by a man who long ago also owned SLAVES.
Also, his taxes go to that city and his paycheck originates in the city of a “slave owner”. That’s OK.
Hmmm
Yes, there are far too many “Freepers” who somehow feel entitled to a pound of flesh, when they aren’t.
Clint Eastwood is right.
I intentionally wore my bright yellow Gadsden baseball cap to a bar I frequent (too much..) just to see what would happen.
I know the staff very well and know they are 90% libtard, seeing as they are mostly millennials that makes sense..
Well, within 3 minutes of sitting down with my buddy, the server looks at my cap and says “That’s a racist cap!”
.....I went off on her pretty hard lol.. dumb 18yr old..
“That’s a racist cap!”
= = =
And if I take it off, you will see an old, bald, white-man’s head.
Which is MUCH more racist.
You could have just tipped it to her :-)
“These days, however, you don’t hear that so often, probably because it’s now ridiculously common and absurdly easy for people to “make a federal case”...” Unless, that is, it involves a member of the Clinton Crime Family. In that case, nothing, no amount of evidence is sufficient to warrant prosecution.
“We ARE the Federal case.”
The article on Forbes incorrectly states that the EEOC page doesn’t show the agency’s decision on the matter. It actually does show the decision. It decided the Gadsen flag does NOT represent a historically racist symbol and returned the case to the USPS for further investigation to determine if it could have been used for racial discrimination purposes in the particular instance, as it has in a couple of cases in modern usage. That was the EEOC’s decision.
Mild oppression now.
Brutal oppression later.
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