i believe in freedom of association. i believe employers are free to hire who they want. i don’t believe he has a right to work anywhere he wants because employers are free to not hire him.
Agreed, but the issue of workplace acceptability was not what I was addressing. I needed to get deeper into the implications of body art as a compensation for people who feel as though they are not taken seriously enough and as a ritual of defiance that warrior clans go through before battle.
The men and women who brought you the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution, were essentially defiant humans. They were not cowed by the awe and splendor of royalty and its manifold pageantries. They had a knowledge of perfection that transcended birthright or tradition; a knowledge brought about by a Biblical sense of right and wrong and justice as a matter of principle.
This country was built by outcasts and misfits and their attendant geniuses regardless of their economic station in life. The last political demonstration by conservatives we saw were thousands of Harleys roaring through DC to counter the Million Muslim March. This is not the Republican Party USA upper crust. It’s anyone’s guess what the tattoo count was, but I’ll guarantee you it wasn’t zero.