Posted on 08/04/2016 11:40:24 AM PDT by amorphous
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is considering whether wearing clothing in the workplace with the Gadsden flag printed on it constitutes legally actionable racial harassment.
According to Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor who runs the “Volokh Conspiracy” blog at The Washington Post, the EEOC ruled two months ago that it will need to collect more evidence in a case filed in Jan. 2014 by an African American federal employee who complained about his coworker wearing a hat with the Gadsden flag printed on it.
The complainant said that the Gadsden flag, which was designed during the Revolutionary War in 1775 and has become popular with the Tea Party movement, is racist because its designer, Christopher Gadsden, was “a slave trader & owner of slaves.”
And though the complainant made no claim that his coworker made any racist remarks while wearing the hat, he said that the Gadsden flag — the iconic yellow banner, which shows a coiled rattlesnake above the words “Don’t Tread on Me” — is a “historical indicator of white resentment against blacks stemming largely from the Tea Party.”
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How about BLM or Malcolm X hats?
Filed under “Utter Crap”.
You beat me to it.
We need some black conservative group to start filing complaints demanding that the Democrat Party and all of its literature, symbols, campaign materials, etc. be outlawed because of its exclusive history as the agent and facilitator of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, etc.
When one’s only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
What would these racist bastards know about “workplace” harassment. They’ve never had real jobs.
Let me guess, BLM pins are OK.
Time to get rid of all the “civil rights” laws. They are only used to favor one group over another. Actual institutional racism is no longer socially acceptable. We no longer need these laws.
That’s how it’s done. you don’t MAKE a law that limits free speech. You just make practicing it illegal.
This reminds me of a 1970s movie called “Spririt of 76.” I think it starred David Cassidy. In a futuristic world everyone is stuck wearing drab grey clothes and the national anthem is nothing more than a single tone blared out over loud speakers.
Methinks Matt’s updated EFAD version needs much wider distribution on many more forms (pins, licence plates, etc).
Bingo. They are just one more weapon to give the federal government unconstitutional power over the states and individual citizens.
It’s probably in the harridan’s video collection.
Such censorship relies on coercively-imposed restrictions on speech which, in America, was intended to be that speech which was unrestrained by political fiat or that which might "offend" another.
As a matter of fact, that great champion of the rights of conscience and free speech, Thomas Jefferson, stated:
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."Contrast that idea of freedom with the group think imposed on college and university students who are subject to haughty and arrogant "professors," bureaucrats and politicians of the "progressive" mindset!
These assorted mind controllers have concluded the view expressed by Thomas Jefferson here is dangerous and must be opposed. Their bias in favor of "progressivism" blinds them to the real intent and purpose of the First Amendment's protections.
In a truly racist, harassing environment the complainant would be found dead in a ditch.
I guess the stickers on the back of my vehicles and plates on the front now constitute harassment, whereas I intend them merely as a warning...
Who cares? What’s worse is, we’ve ALL been tread on, OVER & OVER. And here we sit, thumbs up our noses. As the crooked one suggests, what does it matter?
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