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Wearing ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ insignia could be punishable racial harassment
washingtonpost.com ^ | 8/3/2016 | Eugene Volokh

Posted on 08/04/2016 11:46:59 AM PDT by rktman

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. Additionally, Complainant alleged that on September 2, 2013, a coworker took a picture of him on the work room floor without his consent. In a decision dated January 29, 2014, the Agency dismissed Complainant’s complaint on the basis it failed to state a claim . . .

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; donttreadonme; eeoc; firstamendment; gadsdenflag; liberalagenda; obama; pcbs; pccrap; racecard
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To: rktman

What about coonskin hats?


41 posted on 08/04/2016 12:32:59 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Nifster
I am sure Guam has tipped over by now

Guam tipping is okay but cow tipping is racist. The things I've learned from the pussy generation. *sigh*

42 posted on 08/04/2016 12:35:35 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: ZULU

I wonder if this clown ever had a one dollar bill in his pocket—the one with a picture of George Washington.


43 posted on 08/04/2016 12:39:38 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: windsorknot

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.

Why is this and why can’t we all just get along? The truth of the matter is that we (the human race) just aren’t as civilized as we would like to think we are. Our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the veneer of civilization is very thin, to non-existent, upon us all. We’re all carrying the genes that got us here and some of those genes carry a very basic survival instinct that has allowed us to survive thus far.

This most basic of all survival instincts is self preservation and it’s the one that warns us to be very wary of those who are different than us, our family, and our tribe. Those who possessed this survival instinct survived and reproduced, and those who had no fear/distrust of strangers didn’t survive. Over the years, this survival instinct has been referred to as tribalism, nationalism, nativism, ethnocentrism, racism, and various other isms, but it’s an inborn instinct carried in our genes whether we like it or not.

A “celebration” of diversity and multiculturalism in the American population was introduced in the 1960s and 70s as a deliberate, divisive revolutionary tool wielded by Marxists like Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers and other radicals. It became dogma taught by Marxists in our universities, then spread by our leftist controlled news media and leftist controlled Hollywood. The intent was, and is, to split American culture along race and class lines and set off a “proletarian” revolution to destroy capitalism.

The Left has now managed to elect a half-Black radical as President and their revolution is proceeding along very predictable lines, with him using every opportunity to stir up more division and discontent. A reading of the Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA at this link should make clear their goals and methods: http://revcom.us/Constitution/constitution.html


44 posted on 08/04/2016 12:40:56 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: rktman

As long as BLM regalia will suffer the same response and accusations, otherwise tell these microaggressed morons to stop staring at peoples shirts.


45 posted on 08/04/2016 12:41:01 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: showme_the_Glory

Please, don’t get my imagination racing.

The PC/BLM crowd keeps this up and they will create a lot of whites with rebellion locked up inside their skulls, who will let that all out when inside the voting booth.


46 posted on 08/04/2016 12:42:45 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: rktman
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.”

Muslims, hide your Korans. This guy will soon be coming after you. /s

47 posted on 08/04/2016 12:43:36 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: Trod Upon

Millennials don’t know how to tie knots.


48 posted on 08/04/2016 12:55:06 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: rktman

I’m trying to develop a business model where I can sell safe places to these snowflakes.

5.56mm


49 posted on 08/04/2016 12:57:56 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Enchante

The party of slavery is, was, and will always be the Democrat Party.


50 posted on 08/04/2016 12:58:18 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: rktman

I’m double bad. I was walking my coon hound last night while wearing my Gadsden t-shirt.....


51 posted on 08/04/2016 1:06:16 PM PDT by CSM (White wine sipping, caviar munching, Georgetown cocktail circuit circulating, Perrier conservative.)
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To: Karliner
Who knew.... I thought cow tipping was ruralist. 😆
52 posted on 08/04/2016 1:18:35 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: GregoTX

Not stupidity. There is an agenda at work.

Redefining American History as RACIST is the first step to allowing Marxists to wipe the slate clean and write their own.


53 posted on 08/04/2016 1:21:16 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ConservativeDude
Why isn’t talking about July 4 a hate crime?

Give it time.

54 posted on 08/04/2016 1:24:13 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: showme_the_Glory

Better yet, a coonskin hat with a Gadsden flag patch on it. That would make ‘em apoplectic.


55 posted on 08/04/2016 1:26:11 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: libertarian27
Yale and Harvard were built and founded by slave owners and slave traders.

For that very reason, no one that attended those schools should be elected to high office. Now who would that be in the current presidential race?

56 posted on 08/04/2016 1:53:59 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: rktman

How awful. Did some redcoats feel triggered?


57 posted on 08/04/2016 2:04:36 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: rktman

I would think the Greens would jump on it as anti-snake, or “specie-ist.” It really doesn’t matter—if something carries the whiff of freedom, they think it stinks.


58 posted on 08/04/2016 2:07:09 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rktman

It is just a matter of time before all things ‘American’ are deemed racial. Certainly anything before 1965 is suspect and even many things today. As long as whites refuse to embrace their racial identity and heritage they will grind us into the ground. They will destroy out history, heritage and nation.


59 posted on 08/04/2016 3:37:02 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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