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Foreigner here. Why is this automatically offensive?
Isn't there a historical angle to this, and not a racist one?
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Some make that argument. I don't buy it. While it might be that some do not intend to use it as a racist/hostile symbol, just imagine how you would feel if you were a descendant of slaves and had to see, in your workplace, the symbol of the secessionists who went to war to maintain slavery. Heck, I am not a descendant of slaves and the Confederate flag makes me uncomfortable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War[/quote]

Wasn't the confederate flag not offensive in the 80s?  I remember it on the car in Dukes of Hazard and it wasn't an issue.  When did it become a symbol of slavery?  (I'm just curious, I'm also a foreigner,moved here as a child)[/quote]
There are two groups who use the confederate flag: those who use it as a symbol of southern pride, and those who use it as a symbol of white supremacy. Back in the '80s, it was a symbol of southern pride. The meanings have blurred considerably since then. This came to a head last year when Dylann Roof posted pictures of himself draped in a confederate flag and then walked into a church and shot nine African Americans during a prayer service. Now, it is very difficult to display that flag and declare that it's only southern pride. Now, it's racist. [/quote]

Can confirm, from the south. There was always some racism associated with the confederate flag in the 80s and before, but not everyone who displayed it was racist and it wasn't such as big a deal. (For instance, incorporating the confederate flag into the state flag of Georgia in the 50s in reaction to desegregation, definitely racist.) Slowly, the "preservation" and display of the flag has been appropriated completely by racists and become a completely racist symbol to most. A lot of older southern people don't really understand or want to.

Not sure what HR can do about it, unless there are already rules on the books. Also depends on what everyone else in his are also has displayed in their cubicals. [/quote]

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