chron.com
NEW LAW PENDING claiming that showing the Gadsden flag in the workplace is racial harassment. Why are they treading on us Sup Forums?
THE GADSDEN FLAG IS RACIST
Jeremiah Hall
Other urls found in this thread:
google.fi
twitter.com
William Flores
>The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is gathering information to determine whether the iconic Gadsden flag is racist and punishable under federal workplace harassment regulations.
>The impetus was a Jan. 8, 2014, complaint brought by a black federal employee who was upset by his coworker’s hat, which bore the flag.
>The individual who filed the complaint did so because the flag is allegedly an “indicator of white resentment against blacks,” specifically tied to the tea party movement, and that its creator, South Carolina statesmen Christopher Gadsden, owned slaves.
Kevin Harris
>everything right wing is racist.
Gabriel Hernandez
Libertarians just voted for Trump, nice, that's all Johnson's voters onside.
Hunter Sanchez
>the navy is racis
Adrian Carter
the American flag is next white boi
Brandon Fisher
no fucking way!
Gavin Morales
So it's one of these threads now
Elijah Wood
...
Charles Mitchell
>being right-wing is considered racist in america
Kayden Brown
No way my wifu is racist
Isaac Bell
...
Elijah Roberts
>I think the commission got this one right. When it comes to the meaning of symbols, social context is everything. Even symbols that have no direct historical connection to racism can change meaning over time. And if we’re going to have laws against workplace harassment, we have to prohibit all harassing behavior -- including harassment that’s overtly political.
>The Gadsden flag features a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow field over the famous motto. It is said to have been designed or at least promulgated by Christopher Gadsden, a politician and patriot from Charleston, South Carolina. He was a member of the Marine committee of the Continental Congress; the newly formed Marines were reported to have used some version of the image and logo on their drums in 1775. And Gadsden gave a version of the flag to the commander-in-chief of the continental navy to use as his personal standard on his flagship. In 1776, Gadsden gave a version of the same flag to the South Carolina legislature. Gadsden made his money as a merchant in South Carolina, and both owned and sold slaves.
>Further investigation is reasonable because the meaning of symbols does indeed evolve. The Confederate battle flag meant one thing to troops in the Civil War, another to postwar members of the Ku Klux Klan, and something different still -- or, really, a range of things -- to those who display it today.
holy shit they're actually going to ban it jesus christ
Jacob Morris
So will they tread on the people who wave this flag or not?
Nathaniel Howard
>today
Pretty much everyone today thinks it's a libertarian flag for government and other people to fuck off
It's not racist at all
Caleb Jenkins
This one is my favorite.
Jacob Morgan
Well hello there
Austin Butler
>don't tread on me
>gets tread on
Jaxon Sullivan
It says right there on the flag to not tread on you and yet they do it. Rude!
Nicholas Green
didn't the Harlem hell fighters use this?
Evan Powell
underrated kek
Hunter Adams
...
Jace Jenkins
>fishpussy
shit taste. Even for a leaf
Christopher Mitchell
...
Bentley Lopez
...
Levi Martinez
>may be declared racist
another day in a parallel universe
nuke yourself already.
Carter Lopez
At least they haven't gone after the "come and take it" flag yet
Owen Price
Need higher res version
Joseph Wright
/r/ing someone make a
"Dont tread on me or my wife's son ever again"
Nolan Hernandez
...
Noah Lee
Yet being the key word.
Flag used against mexicans. yeah its going to come down in the next 50 years. Especially with the gun owner/NRA side of it.
Joseph Adams
...
Hunter Barnes
Reminder that racism is a meme created by Leon Trotsky in the 1920s to turn Bolshevism into a race and call people who didn't believe in it (mostly rich landowners) racists. Racism is literally a nonexistant term used to take something away from you.
Joshua Jenkins
>flags are racist
Andrew Johnson
...
Jack Murphy
...
Ian Ward
...
Noah Ortiz
>The "Come and Take It" flag is a clear symbol of the white male refusing to appropriate resources to less fortunate minority groups.
>Much like refusing to give up the cannon, the white male refuses to pay taxes and give to charities targeting underprivileged black children.
Juan Hernandez
I have a similar one
Wyatt Murphy
...
James Morales
...
Hunter James
oy vey goyim shut it down
Jaxson James
Not shit edition.
Wyatt Fisher
helo this is snek
Jonathan Wood
...
Bentley Allen
Libtard status: tread on.
Tyler Gonzalez
...
Hunter Roberts
Hivemind.
Gabriel Evans
...
Angel Moore
...
Carson Clark
...
Henry Lewis
literally the worst modern flag in existence.
Daniel Wilson
...
Lincoln Baker
>Missing the best one
Chase Walker
>That's right goyim, any symbol of rebellion is racist!
Tyler Miller
...
Levi Powell
kek
Jace Russell
Best one
Robert Stewart
Is the left just going to call every other ideology besides marxism racist?
Hunter Murphy
...
John Campbell
BLM version
David Perry
...
Daniel Harris
Can you blame them? Its worked so far.
Jaxson Barnes
...
Luke Ramirez
...
Zachary Green
Makes more sense with English flag
Christian Cox
I got one saved but it's got a shitty white strip underneath. Too lazy to fix.
Isaac Anderson
>besides
Modern anarchists already condemn their forebears as being privileged white men who could not see the full picture.
James Campbell
Thankssssssss-ssss-sis-sss.
Ayden Garcia
...
Adrian Butler
...
Caleb Thompson
>sips tea
Joseph White
>Too lazy
Lincoln Jackson
...
Josiah Rodriguez
Ssssssss ssssss skt sssssssk ssssss ssssk.
Hudson Murphy
...
Owen Brown
>Modern
>First used by the Continental Navy during the War of Independence
Ahmed please.
Grayson Hernandez
Here m8, thank you
Bentley Long
Stop treading on me, like really?
#ugh #Groanzone #BigGovernment
Noah Hall
I presume you haven't seen these Liberian regional flags...
Carter Garcia
Isn't the Tea Party just against higher taxes & regulations? how is that racist?
Cameron Rivera
Juan, war of independence was not long ago.
Mason Hernandez
Post the Australian gadsden
Gavin Hughes
>it's racist
I thought it was used by libertarians who strike me as the least racist political group.
Jeremiah Long
...
Parker Edwards
How long until they go after the Mississippi flag?
Aaron Mitchell
Shitty regional flags.
US has regional flags just as bad. I wouldn't even mention them.
Bentley Bell
>the U.S. flag is racist
How long do you give it?
Dylan Diaz
Reported for racism
Kevin Moore
You can't be serious
Carson Morales
Still got the bloody arm flag
Parker Collins
I guess I'm proud to be a racist then
kill niggers! etc.
Adam Johnson
i know right. Time to spread this shit.
Jaxon Green
take this for example
Jose Green
...
Matthew Adams
They did in philly during the DNC, they had it taken down
Ethan Clark
>"Uh oh, cops haven't killed any niggers in a while. We need something to scream racist about, and quick!"
Fucking faggot liberals give me the diarrhea.
Juan Bell
What a load of bulshit
Bentley Powell
>its creator, South Carolina statesmen Christopher Gadsden, owned slaves.
Uh oh, guess we can't have a constitution anymore.
Then again the people supporting this shit probably want that.