EEOC Declares Gadsden Flag Racist

[Clementine]

A guy wearing a hat with "Don't tread on me" found himself responding to a complaint by a complete moron he works with. Despite the guy never saying anything remotely racist, a black coworker complained because of a hat with the Gadsden flag on it. It is now deemed racist by the EEOC. Not because it's actually racist since there is absolutely no history of such. This is the administration that caters to feelings, no matter how illogical those emotions may be. Virtually anything can be seen as racist by those who want to see racism everywhere. And now freedom of speech, no matter how innocent, will be treated like a hate crime because some ignorant asses think everything white people do is racist.

"The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has determined in a preliminary ruling that wearing clothing featuring the Gadsden Flag constitutes legally actionable racial harassment in the workplace. In short, wearing the Gadsden flag while at work can earn you the title of "racist", earn you harassment charges, and cost you your job. The ideological witch hunt started back in 2014 when a black employee at a privately owned company filed a complaint with the EEOC when he saw a co-worker wearing a hat featuring the Gadsden flag and the words "Don’t tread on me." The EEOC has decided to side with the over-sensitive employee, despite already admitting that the flag originated in a non-racial context and has been adopted by multiple non-racial political groups, countless companies and more, since it was created.

The ruling is a preliminary ruling and has not yet been made "official" but the preliminary ruling says that you can be charged with "racial harassment." They have not indicated when an "official" ruling will be made and it is ongoing.

The black employee first complained about the anti-tyranny image in back in 2014. His immediate supervisor allegedly asked the "offending" employee to stifle his patriotism and remove the hat. After several failed attempts to shame the proud American the easily offended employee escalated his complaints to the EEOC. Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor who runs the "Volokh Conspiracy" blog at The Washington Post, reported that the EEOC stated they would need to "gather more evidence on the case" approximately two months ago. Since that time the EEOC has decided that the Gadsden flag is "racially insensitive."

The investigation has revealed that the "racist" employee in question never uttered a word of even remotely racist speech to the offended employee. The EEOC has also admitted that there is no racist history of the flag. They conceded in a statement made to the Washington Post:

"It is clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context, Moreover, it is clear that the flag and its slogan have been used to express various non-racial sentiments, such as when it is used in the modern Tea Party political movement, guns rights activism, patriotic displays and by the military."

The employee that issued the complaint claims that the flag is racist because the person that designed the flag Christopher Gadsden was a "a slave trader & owner of slaves." According to this logic the Gadsden flag is inherently as racist as swivel chairs, bifocals, and many other items designed by slave owning inventors."


http://americanmilitarynews.com/2016/08/government-ruling-wearing-gadsden-flag-is-racist-racial-harassment/

 

[Clementine]

"The Gadsden Flag – the famous Revolutionary War Flag depicting a coiled snake, ready to strike and the words "DONT TREAD ON ME" below, is now considered racist by the Obama Administration.

And what is much worse…the government is acting to ban you from displaying it.

All because a single, exceedingly paranoid black employee of one company claimed a co-worker wearing a baseball cap with the flag on it amounted to racial harassment.

The flag was first used during the Revolutionary War aboard ships assembled by the Continental Congress to counter British blockades. It’s historical use had nothing whatsoever to do with race, racism, the Civil War or slavery.

But the complaint says it is indeed racist because the creator of the flag – Christopher Gadsden – "owned slaves". Oh, and of course because leftists note that anti-tax conservatives sometimes fly the flag, and they are all racists too, or something.

That’s it? Yep. That’s all it took for the 4,000 bureaucrat strong, $500 million EEOC to declare war against the symbol in private sector corporate America.

So here’s an excerpt of the complaint heard by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, courtesy The Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy:

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, among its other functions, decides "hostile work environment" harassment claims brought against federal agencies. In doing so, it applies the same legal rules that courts apply to private employers, and that the EEOC follows in deciding whether to sue private employers. The EEOC has already ruled that coworkers’ wearing Confederate flag T-shirts can be punishable harassment (a decision that I think is incorrect); and, unsurprisingly, this is extending to other political speech as well. Here’s an excerpt from Shelton D. [pseudonym] v. Brennan, 2016 WL 3361228, decided by the EEOC two months ago:

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) 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."

A cap? Not even a flag itself? Seriously?

Complainant stated that he found the cap to be racially offensive to African Americans because the flag was designed by Christopher Gadsden, an "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 . . . .

Complainant maintains that the Gadsden Flag is a "historical indicator of white resentment against blacks stemming largely from the Tea Party."

After a thorough review of the record, it is clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context. Moreover, it is clear that the flag and its slogan have been used to express various non-racial sentiments, such as when it is used in the modern Tea Party political movement, guns rights activism, patriotic displays, and by the military.

However, whatever the historic origins and meaning of the symbol, it also has since been sometimes interpreted to convey racially-tinged messages in some contexts. For example, in 2014, African-American New Haven firefighters complained about the presence of the Gadsden flag in the workplace on the basis that the symbol was racially insensitive. Certainly, Complainant ascribes racial connotations to the symbol based on observations that it is sometimes displayed in racially-tinged situations.

In light of the ambiguity in the current meaning of this symbol, we find that Complainant’s claim must be investigated to determine the specific context in which C1 displayed the symbol in the workplace. In so finding, we are not prejudging the merits of Complainant’s complaint. Instead, we are precluding a procedural dismissal that would deprive us of evidence that would illuminate the meaning conveyed by C1’s display of the symbol.

So even Obama’s EEOC investigators found absolutely no basis in claims that the flag was racist.

And there’s was no evidence that the cap wearer ever said or did anything racist to his complaining Black co-worker, "Sheldon."All he did was wear the baseball cap. So the only association between racism and that symbol is in Sheldon’s mind. He thinks it’s racist. It doesn’t matter whether it is or not.

So now the EEOC will put pressure on all companies to consider the racist intent of the symbol. You know what most companies will simply do: BAN IT. No one wants to burn hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees taking on the Marxist lawyers in Obama’s employ."

http://toprightnews.com/breaking-if-you-own-dont-tread-on-me-flags-or-apparel-you-need-to-read-this-now/






The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has determined in a preliminary ruling that wearing clothing featuring the Gadsden Flag constitutes legally actionable racial harassment in the workplace. In short, wearing the Gadsden flag while at work can earn you the title of "racist", earn you harassment charges, and cost you your job. The ideological witch hunt started back in 2014 when a black employee at a privately owned company filed a complaint with the EEOC when he saw a co-worker wearing a hat featuring the Gadsden flag and the words "Don’t tread on me." The EEOC has decided to side with the over-sensitive employee, despite already admitting that the flag originated in a non-racial context and has been adopted by multiple non-racial political groups, countless companies and more, since it was created.

The ruling is a preliminary ruling and has not yet been made "official" but the preliminary ruling says that you can be charged with "racial harassment." They have not indicated when an "official" ruling will be made and it is ongoing.

The black employee first complained about the anti-tyranny image in back in 2014. His immediate supervisor allegedly asked the "offending" employee to stifle his patriotism and remove the hat. After several failed attempts to shame the proud American the easily offended employee escalated his complaints to the EEOC. Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor who runs the "Volokh Conspiracy" blog at The Washington Post, reported that the EEOC stated they would need to "gather more evidence on the case" approximately two months ago. Since that time the EEOC has decided that the Gadsden flag is "racially insensitive."

The investigation has revealed that the "racist" employee in question never uttered a word of even remotely racist speech to the offended employee. The EEOC has also admitted that there is no racist history of the flag. They conceded in a statement made to the Washington Post:

"It is clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context, Moreover, it is clear that the flag and its slogan have been used to express various non-racial sentiments, such as when it is used in the modern Tea Party political movement, guns rights activism, patriotic displays and by the military."

The employee that issued the complaint claims that the flag is racist because the person that designed the flag Christoper Gadsden was a "a slave trader & owner of slaves." According to this logic the Gadsden flag is inherently as racist as swivel chairs, bifocals, and many other items designed by slave owning inventors.


http://americanmilitarynews.com/2016/08/government-ruling-wearing-gadsden-flag-is-racist-racial-harassment/

 

[TheOldSchool]

I wouldn't call it racist, but it's a Goddam shame that the mostly racist idiots in the Tea Party co-opted that flag as their own... it ruined one of the great symbols of American History.

 

[Clementine]

Some libs were saying it was a hoax that some leftist nuts were wanting to ban the flag. As often happens, they come out and claim something is a lie and then it happens. While some here acted like it was just some rumor thought up by people in tinfoil hats, now it's reality so that means they will line up to defend this.

This is just sick. I can't believe that they are now willing to stop people from expressing themselves as soon as someone claims they are offended.

 

[Clementine]

Libs who previously claimed that the administration wanting to declare the flag racist was a hoax don't have anything to say now.