Police sergeant fired for having a Confederate flag in front of her house

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That's not a good reason to fire someone. I don't agree with the flag but still. I understand it may hint to racial bias its just not a strong enough case though.
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Its not like she's being fined or sent to jail, she's losing her job.
You can lose your job for anything in America. Just making the company/occupatoin you are apart of look even slightly bad is enough to lose your job.

Which is actually exactly what happened in this case.


If a German police officer got fired for flying a Nazi flag in her yard, I bet nobody would have a problem with it :jbhmm:
 

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Yes it is. These racists are right about that much.
And the Nazi flag is part of German history. But the Germans would never tolerate a cop flaunting the Nazi flag.

Nein, brehette.

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US has laws that allow freedom of speech and expression, German's dont.
As a black man, this hate for the confederate flag is absurd to me, the US flag is a far worse flag for us historically and in the present.
 

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Yes it is. These racists are right about that much.
And the Nazi flag is part of German history. But the Germans would never tolerate a cop flaunting the Nazi flag.

Nein, brehette.

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Lol parallel thought. Was typing the same thing
 
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I feel like the confederate flag has nothing to do with anything racist. just southern pride, but I know I'm saying this as an outsider. Both the south and the north were fukked up when it came to race
 

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That's not a good reason to fire someone. I don't agree with the flag but still. I understand it may hint to racial bias its just not a strong enough case though.
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I feel like the confederate flag has nothing to do with anything racist. just southern pride, but I know I'm saying this as an outsider. Both the south and the north were fukked up when it came to race


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I feel like the confederate flag has nothing to do with anything racist. just southern pride, but I know I'm saying this as an outsider. Both the south and the north were fukked up when it came to race

What you feel like has nothing to do with the reality of the fact that the flag represents a secession of America that was based largely on the designation of new terrorties being either slave states or free states.

With all due respect, fukk how you feel breh :yeshrug:
 
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Most police departments have a stipulation that their officers cannot engage in actions which dishonor the badge. Hoisting white supremacist icons is one such fire-able offense. Using the N word at a colleague is another. There's no breach of rights here.

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US has laws that allow freedom of speech and expression, German's dont.
As a black man, this hate for the confederate flag is absurd to me, the US flag is a far worse flag for us historically and in the present.
I don't think you grasp that if the south had won, black people could potentially still be literal slaves. And so that flag would be much, much worse.

But the reason I bring up the traitorous confederate flag is for the white people who love America but might not have a strong emotional attachment (disgust) to the horrors of slavery.
 

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It's a volation of our free speech. :manny: It's like some black person getting fired for having a pan African flag. ( I understand the pan African flag doesn't have the same history or bloodshed). You gotta let folks speak even if it's a shytty opinion. That's the way our country is set up.
 

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Good.
So much gets made about that flag being racist. AND IT IS.

But more needs to be made about it being a TRAITOR'S FLAG.
It's literally anti-American

It's like the Warriors waving their Western Conference Championship banner from this year. You can be proud of it and claim whatever sentimental value you want to it. But it's still a reminder YOU LAWCE
 

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It's a volation of our free speech. :manny: It's like some black person getting fired for having a pan African flag. ( I understand the pan African flag doesn't have the same history or bloodshed). You gotta let folks speak even if it's a shytty opinion.



No, Its not a violation of her free speech. People always say this without knowing what it means

A violation of her free speech would have been going onto her property and forcibly removing it. That would be a violation of her rights.

Losing your job this is not a violation of your rights.



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