Posted on 09/24/2004 8:15:21 AM PDT by Michael Goldsberry
My office is unsafe for anyone. Particularly when I'm not in it. Sometimes when I am.
That's only 'cause they got a lot of practice in.
Curious - my cube is safe enough for everybody except perhaps the occasional cockroach or mosquito or a user who forgets his or her password. Posting a sign saying that specific people are exempt from assault seems a bit superfluous. This is just one of those "feel-good" programs that somebody in management thought was a good idea, mostly because he or she didn't really think about it at all.
Displays of any card or symbol displaying allegiance, support or tolerance for a particular cause is fine with me if it is a matter of personal choice. Happens all the time - flags, ribbons, etc. - and is supported by companies all the time (e.g., selling daffodils for cancer, etc.)
Safe space is explicitly voluntarily and a matter of individual choice. Your boss cannot force you to display the card - nor can your boss force you not to. If you can't agree in principle with what the card says, don't display it.
If someone asks you why either way, you're free to give whatever explanation you wish - they're free to question your beliefs as you are free to hold them. If you find that you can't defend your beliefs, perhaps it's time to consider why you believe what you believe.
If you get blacklisted or fired for not agreeing with any display of allegiance, you have good cause to fight back. This applies to all displays of allegiance, though - from a rainbow triangle to the American flag. Forced displays of false allegiance is fascist, regardless of the symbol.
The email was notification that company policy that ALL political signs, flyers, or endorsements of candidates and issues are strictly prohibited.
Barf.
Homosexual Agenda Ping. Notice the possible two year prison sentence. The article is not clear whether the "hate crimes" including sexual orientation means actual crimes or speech. I know that Canada has a law or laws on the books right now making the criticizing of homosexuality a hate crime.
Anybody still foolish enough to say "It can't happen here"?
Let me and Scripter know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
Another reason to chase all of our lunatic libs, homosexuals, lesbians, transexuals, communists, bisexuals, transgendered, necrophiliacs, druggies and other maggots to Canada and prevent them from returning to America.
The conservative Canadians have lost their un civil war with the maggots of the Lunatic Left.
Doesn't seem that they've put up much fight.
With the left wing media the Canadians have, we would never hear the side of the conservatives.
Look at what is happening here. If you only read the left wing fish wraps and watchED ABCNNBC BS, you would conclude that the Gay lifestyle is natural, wonderful and a great thing. While the conservative life style is a terrible thing.
i would quit on the spot...
Wouldnt it feel great to have a coupla billion dollars with that bank and call the ceo personally to let him know youve transfered the money out...one can dream.
that would be awesome.. I always wish I had more clout than I actually do...hehe.. hey, let's ship all the alternative lifestyles folks to canada...it can be their official hassle free home... be a great marketing tool (heheh I said "tool") for them....
"Come to Canada...where queer is right here!"
Agreed - there must be some conservatives in Canada. But the fact that the extreme leftists (are there any other kind?) have taken what looks like total control must indicate that either there aren't enough conservatives, or they're wimps.
Object lesson for us - if conservatives are wimps and Mr. Milquetoasts, we're toast. Gotta get hard, tough and righteously angry. Note I said "righteous" - a different brand than the anger leftists don with their clothes in the morning. Their anger is a generalized, petulant hatred against all that is good; ultimately, a rebellion against God and His natural order. Righteous anger, however, is rational and directed at that which wants to destroy and hurt. It is necessary to have righteous anger to fight against evil, and when the fight is not necessary, is dropped.
Liberals, OTOH, are angry all the time; it is like background noise to them. They are very miserable people.
Agreed. I was using the "Reductio ad Absurdam" approach to nullifying the meaning of the triangle. It begs the question: Was the environment of RBC hostile to Gays etc before the signs went up?
While bank management claims displaying Rainbow Triangle stickers is voluntary, the inference taken from the request is that not showing the sticker could lead to hostility, demotion or job loss. In the wake of Canada's Bill C-250, which includes sexual orientation in anti-hate legislation, there's also the threat of a two-year prison term.
This is reminiscent of a situation that arose at the San Francisco Giants' "Until There's a Cure" AIDS awareness benefit game in 1996, which featured a pre-game ceremony in which volunteers in red formed a red ribbon on the field, and all the ballplayers were given red ribbon decals to wear on their uniforms over their hearts.
Long-relief pitcher Mark Dewey, a "born-again" Christian (and not one of the stars of the team), didn't join the other players for the pre-game ceremony, citing his Bible-based beliefs that wouldn't allow him to stand in support of homosexuality or "safe sex." He did place the ribbon sticker on his uniform, but with his own twist -- he turned the ribbon 90 degrees, so that it resembled the "Jesus fish."
Dewey was called into the game, and the change was noticed. Organizers of the event whined about how "hurt" they were that Dewey didn't just go along. The founder of one of the charities involved demanded that Dewey be traded or released. Glenn Dickey, a particularly noxious sports scribe (Joe Montana refused to talk to Dickey after he suggested Joe should have timed his wife's pregnancy so it wouldn't have distracted him during the season), suggested Dewey "demonized" homosexuals. GLAAD wrote a terse condemnation of Dewey, calling him "Giant Pitcher [with a] Tiny Brain."
Fortunately, the Giants respected Dewey's right to refuse to take the field, and issued no condemnation. Star reliever Rod Beck, who co-organized the event, said that he respected Dewey's stance, and was annoyed with the controversy about it.
I once worked at a place that everyone has heard of (which will remain unnamed) that offered "sensitivity training." To my knowledge, the company never forced anyone to take the courses, but if they had forced me, and it was the sort of insidious program that put you on a de facto watch list if you didn't parrot the kum-ba-ya agenda of the instructors, I would have had to seriously consider quitting. If I am doing the job that I was paid to do, they have no right to sit me down, try to indoctrinate me regarding things having nothing to do with my performance, and penalize me for not acceding to their beliefs.
Since when does what goes on in Canada matter to US?
Unless it involves beer...............
Well said!
I've been looking for a word that will not allow THEM to chategorize US. THEY'VE been able to define the terms of the debate (so far), and they're calling US "homophobic."
BANG! We've been labelled.
Well, I'm not afraid, so it's not "-phobic." I detest the practice, so it's dislike or aversion (as you've said). Best I've been able to come up with (in Greek) is "-miseo" or somesuch; such as "misogynist" (hater of women).
Perhaps we should redefine ourselves as "homomiseo" or something like it?
Someone with a knowledge of Greek help a guy out.
"Fortunately, the Giants respected Dewey's right to refuse to take the field, and issued no condemnation. Star reliever Rod Beck, who co-organized the event, said that he respected Dewey's stance, and was annoyed with the controversy about it."
Precisely the right attitude. There's nothing wrong with issue awareness or advocacy campaigns in general, but forcing allegiance to any particular position is not acceptable, nor is squelching civil protest.
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