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Wearing ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ insignia could be punishable racial harassment
washingtonpost.com ^
| 8/3/2016
| Eugene Volokh
Posted on 08/04/2016 11:46:59 AM PDT by rktman
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Oh, I see. The phrase was made up by slave owners as a warning to those that wanted to abolish slavery. Or something. So, if the cap was offensive, why didn't the management folks punish the hat? What if, perhaps, someone were to wear a cap or shirt with a US Navy jack with the same words on it? Even more troubling, when did we cancel the old "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"? Guess today's precious little snowflakes never heard that one.
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:47:00 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
I am amazed at how stupidity is promoted and celebrated
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:49:08 AM PDT
by
GregoTX
To: rktman
C’mon, let’s just get it over with and welcome our totalitarian masters.
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:49:16 AM PDT
by
TTFlyer
To: rktman
What a dumb African!
Gadsden didn’t design the motto; he designed the cap.
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:49:18 AM PDT
by
HomerBohn
(Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
To: rktman
The Gadsden flag is “rasis”? ROTFLMAO! Those people up in the District of Corruption are doing way too many recreational drugs.
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:49:43 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
To: rktman
We will tread on your 1st amend for wearing “don’t tread on me!”
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:49:43 AM PDT
by
proust
(Trump / Pence 2016!)
To: rktman
Tread on the Complainant.
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:50:17 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: rktman
Why isn’t talking about July 4 a hate crime?
To: rktman
The idiocy generated by PC crap regarding the Confederate Flag is spreading. Yet a NAZI Flag or hammer and sickle flag is just fine.
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:51:11 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
To: rktman
I find idiocy offensive yet I don’t sue idiots. It is rather impressive that this individual knows the origin of the flag and the gentleman who designed it. One may ponder whether freedom and its inevitable spread would have occurred had it not been for alleged racists like Gadsden. What did Clint Eastwood say recently about us all being a bunch of PC wussies?
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:52:23 AM PDT
by
rey
To: rktman
Shall we burn down the White House because slaves helped build it?
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:52:51 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(It is very simple, Trump/Pence or Clinton/Kaine. Good riddance Lyn' Ted, we regret ever knowing you)
To: ZULU
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:53:31 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
To: rktman
So, now Don’t Tread On Me is racist? Really?
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:53:47 AM PDT
by
Chgogal
(A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
To: rktman
How about the Bernie and Hitlery stickers? I;m offended by those losers, especially those still with their stupid Bernie car stickers. He lost and started barking to his true master Hitlery.
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:53:50 AM PDT
by
max americana
(fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
To: ZULU
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:54:00 AM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Political Correctness is fascism disguised as manners. -- George Carlin)
To: rktman
I am sure Guam has tipped over by now
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:55:43 AM PDT
by
Nifster
(Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
To: rktman
“Racial harassment” is the new, boundless frontier to be boldly explored and exploited.
To: rktman
Complainant stated that he found the cap to be racially offensive to African Americans because the flag was designed by Christopher Gadsden, a slave trader & owner of slaves. Yale and Harvard were built and founded by slave owners and slave traders.
Let's call them colleges of harassment.
(I'd be OK with that - lol)
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:57:23 AM PDT
by
libertarian27
(FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
To: Reno89519
“If” a certain individual was so highly offended by that fact (which I’m sure she never knew before moving there) she could have easily afforded a room over at the Watergate for the past nearly 8 years. And the kids could still have gone to Sidwell school. No, seriously, if you’re gonna live to what you say/”beleive”, take a stand, commit to your principals. What kind of example is that for the girls anyway? LOL!
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:57:27 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: libertarian27
If you truly believe, wouldn’t you send back your sheep skin?
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posted on
08/04/2016 11:58:40 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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