Golden-Ratio

Amazing how the media is more focused on what happened 150 years ago than they are on what's happening now.

kujda

I do find this amazing. This guy represents his personal believes and opinions. I doubt it has any influence on his work. So why fire him?

Weebo

Honestly, do you want someone with these kind of bad judgement skills to be legally allowed to kill? It's a knee jerk reaction, but might be beneficial in getting a moron off the force.

madmalloy

Yep, you're a Northerner.

Weebo

Nope! Atlanta, GA born and raised. My F250 is lifted so high I can't go into parking decks.

whynotanon1

The govnerments interest in my underwear should definitely be in the "not do something" column

JAWheat411

Exactly... A reprimand or something similar stating whatever he puts online makes them look bad. A written warning or suspension, but not firing.

Buttcannon

Reinforcement of Feels > reals

JAWheat411

Talk about taking political correctness too far.

Tarhun

Just imagine the outrage of the PC police if he was fired for wearing a pride flag boxers.

sng-ign

@tarhun // What if the boxers had a Confederate States of America design, but used a bright pink and rainbow (pro-pride) theme?

Imagine the confusion. LOL

madmalloy

This type of behavior?

There goes Civil War reenactments and history books of that era.

Sarus

As a Canadian, What the fuck is this even about? How is the civil war relevant to modern day race tension? at all? weren't you guys fighting for America not slaves? Whats the civil war have to do with black people at all? Am i just ignorant?

pm_me_firearms

You aren't. Basically, the Civil War lead into the Jim Crow laws, and the strengthening of the federal government, which lead into the whole racism thing today.

BiscuitFever

The extremest are trying to kill free speech because of a shooting that recently happened.

Decius

The people who think we should ban a FLAG are the ignorant ones. But even more ignorant are the ones that let gay marriage and flag banning overshadow the real issues going on in this country... TPP, Nuclear weapons bill, NATO Forces outside of Russia...

ACCOUNT_DELETED

The Confederate battle flag (as opposed to the actual flag of the Confederate States of America ) was co-opted by the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1900s. It has evolved into a universal symbol of intolerance for African-Americans for many people as a result.

Decius

Whatever. Very few people who have confederate flags are legitimately racist... most of them are just hillbillies and rednecks. That being said why the fuck would banning the flag make any sense?

voltapizzle

The civil war was very much about racism and slavery, and the confederate flag is used, in 90% of cases, to be racist while hiding behind "southern tradition".

CACKENBOOLS

They had normal state flags up until the height of the civil rights movement in the mid 60's. It was basically a "fuck you" to the federal government. So, ironically, it is about states' rights about as much as the civil war was in the exact same way.

fleas

Well we can't let him keep his job, that would be racist. Now shooting black people, that's just doing our job. We're here to protect you.

WindyDay

As if police officers just went around lynching black people... The real question here is when will mick perma-ban you, now that's what we're all forgetting here.