The yellow Gadsden "rattlesnake" Flag was used by the Continental Marines. It is possible I have an ancestral reason for flying that one as well.
Aside from the fact that I have a First Amendment Right to fly whatever I damn well please!!!
Posted on 08/07/2016 8:25:43 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
This item popped up the other day at The Volokh Conspiracy and it’s a rather sad sign of the times. .....
On January 8, 2014, Complainant filed a formal complaint in which he alleged that the Agency subjected him to discrimination on the basis of race (African American) and in reprisal for prior EEO activity when, starting in the fall of 2013, a coworker (C1) repeatedly wore a cap to work with an insignia of the Gadsden Flag, which depicts a coiled rattlesnake and the phrase “Don’t Tread on Me.”
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.” Complainant also alleged that he complained about the cap to management; however, although management assured him C1 would be told not to wear the cap, C1 continued to come to work wearing the offensive cap......
...As Volokh points out, there is no indication that the accused worker ever did or said anything to the complainant which could be construed as racially insensitive. He simply wore a cap with the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag on it. For the EEOC to even take up the case provides a signal that we have entered an era where nothing actually has to be racist to get you in trouble. All it takes is for someone else to decide that it looks racist to them. This is apparently sufficient to complete the offense in the eyes of the government. Because Gadsden (the flag’s originator) lived in a time when slave ownership was still legal and broadly practiced, that makes the flag a racist symbol centuries later. Ian Tuttle at National Review notes the flaw in this logic.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Soon you won’t be able to use your own toilet without a toilet pass. America is turning in a real crap pile of stupidity.
Crazy Libs will never run out of things that offend them. I am wondering how long it will take them to target the UK’s Union Jack.
I have a Culpeper Flag on the wall right behind me as I type this. Gadsden & Culpeper is a great company.
hmm
I’d have to think about that!
Morph an ISIS flag to read NAACP in swirly text in the middle.
Fascism.
limiting speech because someone is offended is like saying a politician can only be elected if he receives 100% of the vote.
The yellow Gadsden "rattlesnake" Flag was used by the Continental Marines. It is possible I have an ancestral reason for flying that one as well.
Aside from the fact that I have a First Amendment Right to fly whatever I damn well please!!!
If challenged, that's all that needs to be said. You're honoring and commemorating the USMC. Period.
Anyone who didn’t see this one coming just wasn’t looking. In our country’s recent history we’ve celebrated diversity in our population as if it were a good thing. However, one look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religion has long survived.
Countries don’t naturally form with a diverse population, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations were forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grew among them and the more violently they broke apart, but break apart they did, or genocide has settled the issue once and for all.
can only be elected if he receives 100% of the vote.
= = =
Make that ‘she’ and ‘will receive 110%”
Either one is OK by me.
Ask yourself: Why would that be? Can you think of a good reason? Answer carefully: There will be a test later.
Hey, why not go for the Gold and just declare the American Flag 'racist'? We once allowed slavery, you know... Or you should know, since we're getting reminded of it every day, although it's been over for a century and a half now.
No matter -- ban it! Ban it NOW! Let's cut to the chase. And if the picture below pisses you off, it should.
There have already been students punished for wearing the American flag on Cinco de Mayo, seen as inciting the Hispanics, thus allowed to be banned like gang clothing.
Bttt.
5.56mm
FUBO!
we will mark you as well
Well, if you ask Obama...
Virginia issues a don’t tread plate. Of course MacAlliff may have future plans for that....
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