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.
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.
Clint Eastwood is right.
“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.
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.
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