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strategically WH made an amateur error by starting from a most innocent/popular symbol. As we know one should start from the edges - ban symbols "offensive to
by trhway 6y ago
strategically WH made an amateur error by starting from a most innocent/popular symbol. As we know one should start from the edges - ban symbols "offensive to others" and list as examples and start enforcing from the ones which most people would agree about - swastikas, Mohammed cartoons, ..., and with time work your way toward other more popular symbols until you reach the goal state of totally politically sterile workplace.
- noneeeed 6y agoI think it's the other way round. I think their standard policy is that basically everything is banned that could be seen as a political statement, so no maga hats or pride rainbows. So this was less a case of banning the poppy, as saying that they wouldn't make an exception. I don't know if the poppy is a thing in the US so this might have been a case of US head office not understanding that to the vast majority of people the poppy is not a political statement.
- trhway 6y ago>no maga hats or pride rainbows i think that is our common loss. I mean after probable initial period of discomfort for some, it would be of great benefit to everybody to naturally get used to our differences and to see that say a maga wearer can be a great guy and coworker what you can talk with and not some stupid redneck from backwoods, and pride wearer is also a normal person like you, not just some perverted servant of Satan. It is kind of socialization in puppy training, and it looks like our polarized society is in great need of such socialization.
- bigbubba 6y agoThere is some limited use of poppies in America, but I expect most Americans are unfamiliar with it. It's primarily a Commonwealth thing.