Confederate flag in cube
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Anonymous
There could be people in Sweden who disagree with how their ancestors were treated by nobility, etc. |
Anonymous
Slavery allowed there until around 1850. |
Anonymous
Counterterrorism folks are a twisted lot.... |
Anonymous
+1. As in most other countries. Let's ban all national flags. |
Anonymous
This site seems to agree with you: http://www.employerlawreport.com/2015/07/articles/eeo/employment-law-and-recent-events-confederate-flag-unrest/ Apparently, the employer cannot make him take it down, but they could fire him for cause. Personally, I think the correct thing to do is to come in at midnight one night, take his Confederate flag and superglue a Rainbow flag to his wall in its place. [/sarcasm] |
Anonymous
You sound highly paranoid. |
Anonymous
It was about white supremacy. In any case, OP, you can post this picture up on your cube: 
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Anonymous
PP, I think he/she/it was trying to be funny... |
Anonymous
Actually, there are such flags. But, these are secure facilities... |
Anonymous
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I don't work in HR, so I'm not sure about this, but here's my guess about what will happen if you go to HR.
First, just like workplaces can institute a dress code, they can also make rules about what you can and can't put on your desk or walls. The key is that they have to apply those rules consistently and fairly. What will likely happen is that they will ask him to take it down, but that will be accompanied by a new set of rules limiting what everyone is allowed to display in their cubes. That way, they don't look like they are singling him out. But it also helps them avoid potential complaints about a hostile work environment. OP, if you noticed the flag, it's highly likely other people notice it, too. My guess is that someone will complain. And that's probably why he put it up -- he's trying to provoke someone, so he can then claim that he's being discriminated against. That's exactly why HR's response will be to make a rule limiting what everyone can put on their desks. Again, that's just my guess. |
Anonymous
Because 99 percent of the time people are not displaying this flag because of historic reasons they are waving it to send a message of hate and racism since the KKK co-opted it as a symbol of white pride umpteen years go. Now, if they don't want to be perceived as hateful and racist then they can find another way to honor whatever history they think is associated with the battle flag of the confederacy. |
Anonymous
You are so dead wrong. Get off your high horse. I just saw stickers on a car with the pre-revolutionary Iranian flag, that is offensive to some but the new flag is offensive to others. Absent a ban on any flag that isn't the US flag, I don't see how you can signal it out. Hell, the North Carolina flag probably is offensive to some now.... |
Anonymous
Not only is it the flag of treason in defense of slavery, but it's resurgence in the 50's was specifically in protest of school desegregation. If you look at what actual Confederates said about their flag, there is no question that it is a symbol of racism. People disliked the original confederal flag because it was too similar to the American flag: "In addition, William T. Thompson, the editor of the Savannah-based Daily Morning News also objected to the flag, due to its aesthetic similarity to the U.S. flag, which some Confederates negatively associated with emancipation and abolitionism. Thompson stated in April 1863 that he disliked the adopted flag "on account of its resemblance to that of the abolition despotism against which we are fighting." "It embodied "the destiny of the Southern master and his African slave." "As a national emblem, it is significant of our higher cause, the cause of a superior race, and a higher civilization contending against ignorance, infidelity, and barbarism." "As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored races. A White Flag would be thus emblematical of our cause." From the Declaration of Causes of Seceding States: Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently prove. In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party, now strong enough in numbers to control the affairs of each of those States, based upon an unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color-- a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of Divine Law. From the Confederate Constitution: Article I Section 9(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed. We have dissolved the late Union chiefly because of the negro quarrel. Now, is there any man who wished to reproduce that strife among ourselves? And yet does not he, who wished the slave trade left for the action of Congress, see that he proposed to open a Pandora's box among us and to cause our political arena again to resound with this discussion. Had we left the question unsettled, we should, in my opinion, have sown broadcast the seeds of discord and death in our Constitution. I congratulate the country that the strife has been put to rest forever, and that American slavery is to stand before the world as it is, and on its own merits. We have now placed our domestic institution, and secured its rights unmistakably, in the Constitution. We have sought by no euphony to hide its name. We have called our negroes 'slaves', and we have recognized and protected them as persons and our rights to them as property. —?Robert Hardy Smith, An Address to the Citizens of Alabama on the Constitution and Laws of the Confederate States of America, 1861 Georgian Democrat Alexander H. Stephens, who would become the Confederacy's vice president, also stated that the Confederate constitution was "decidedly better than" the American one, as it "put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution. African slavery as it exists amongst us; the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the 'rock upon which the old Union would split.' He was right." |
Anonymous
You know that guy wanted to deport all former slaves to Santo Domingo, correct? I suspect OP's workmate would approve. |
Anonymous
| Let me explain something: Secession was about slavery and maintaining white supremacy, but the United State's response was not about ending white supremacy or slavery. It was about ending rebellion. |