05-29-2009, 09:47 AM
[/quote]Disagree. I don't know where you got the information for your side of the story, but I'm much more inclined to believe the guys'. Remember that story about the art students laying flags on the floor and people would just walk on them and no one cared? That type of behavior seems to be much more common than someone making a fuss about how the flag was used. Plus if this supervisor really cared about how the flag was displayed, she would not have placed it on the floor.[/quote]
I got my information from googling. I believe it was <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.newsvine.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">www.newsvine.com</a><!-- w -->. It was a local news station. I should have put the link in my post, but I cut and paste the article in it's entirety in my first post.
Just because some people in an earlier story walked across a flag doesn't mean that this one particular supervisor would do the same. You can't just assume that people are all going to act the same because you want to think they are going to. It stated in the article that the supervisor that complained about the flag had family members actively serving in the military as well. Why would this person be offended by the American Flag if they have family members serving our country?
And think about it. A 3 foot X 5 foot flag in what could have been a cubicle? That's a fairly big flag! The article I read said that patients of the hospital had complained as well. I can see someone like my grandpa walking in, seeing a big flag like that in someone's cubicle, and bitching that it is being treated in a disrespectful way (my grandpa was a career Navy man). So the supervisor tried to talk to her about it, and the woman aSSumed that because the supervisor was NOT WHITE, he/she was UN-American.
Whatever happened, I just think that there was much more to this story than what we are being given by the media, and I get so tired of people just assuming the worst and jumping on this 'Let's Kick Ass' bandwagon. And I was upset when I tuned into the show, because I usually laugh all the way to work, but when the caller said 'we should eradicate the illegal immigrants' it was suddenly not funny.
I got my information from googling. I believe it was <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.newsvine.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">www.newsvine.com</a><!-- w -->. It was a local news station. I should have put the link in my post, but I cut and paste the article in it's entirety in my first post.
Just because some people in an earlier story walked across a flag doesn't mean that this one particular supervisor would do the same. You can't just assume that people are all going to act the same because you want to think they are going to. It stated in the article that the supervisor that complained about the flag had family members actively serving in the military as well. Why would this person be offended by the American Flag if they have family members serving our country?
And think about it. A 3 foot X 5 foot flag in what could have been a cubicle? That's a fairly big flag! The article I read said that patients of the hospital had complained as well. I can see someone like my grandpa walking in, seeing a big flag like that in someone's cubicle, and bitching that it is being treated in a disrespectful way (my grandpa was a career Navy man). So the supervisor tried to talk to her about it, and the woman aSSumed that because the supervisor was NOT WHITE, he/she was UN-American.
Whatever happened, I just think that there was much more to this story than what we are being given by the media, and I get so tired of people just assuming the worst and jumping on this 'Let's Kick Ass' bandwagon. And I was upset when I tuned into the show, because I usually laugh all the way to work, but when the caller said 'we should eradicate the illegal immigrants' it was suddenly not funny.