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[Update. It appears the original submission was skewing the facts. From the What You Should Know about EEOC and Shelton D. v. U.S. Postal Service (Gadsden Flag case) on the EEOC (US Equal Employment Opportunity Commision) web site:
What You Should Know about EEOC and Shelton D. v. U.S. Postal Service (Gadsden Flag case)
- This decision addressed only the procedural issue of whether the Complainant's allegations of discrimination should be dismissed or investigated. This decision was not on the merits, did not determine that the Gadsden Flag was racist or discriminatory, and did not ban it.
- Given the procedural nature of this appeal and the fact that no investigative record or evidence had been developed yet, it would have been premature and inappropriate for EEOC to determine, one way or the other, the merits of the U.S. Postal Service's argument that the Gadsden Flag and its slogan do not have any racial connotations whatsoever.
- EEOC's decision simply ordered the agency - the U.S. Postal Service - to investigate the allegations. EEOC's decision made no factual or legal determination on whether discrimination actually occurred.
The original story follows. --martyb]
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has determined in a preliminary ruling that wearing clothing featuring the Gadsden Flag constitutes legally actionable racial harassment in the workplace. In short, wearing the Gadsden flag while at work can earn you the title of "racist", earn you harassment charges, and cost you your job. The ideological witch hunt started back in 2014 when a black employee at a privately owned company filed a complaint with the EEOC when he saw a co-worker wearing a hat featuring the Gadsden flag and the words "Don't tread on me." The EEOC has decided to side with the over-sensitive employee, despite already admitting that the flag originated in a non-racial context and has been adopted by multiple non-racial political groups, countless companies and more, since it was created.
The ruling is a preliminary ruling and has not yet been made "official" but the preliminary ruling says that you can be charged with "racial harassment." They have not indicated when an "official" ruling will be made and it is ongoing.
Source: American Military News
Better Source: Washington Post
Facts: EEOC
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:17PM
That helped the South survive in the East. However, they began losing in the west almost immediately, in Missouri, Kentucky, and the Gulf Coast. Lee, for all his skill, could only command one army at a time.
In addition, Lee had numerous flaws as a commander that in the long run spelled doom for the Confederacy. Those flaws were exposed once Stonewall Jackson was killed, because one of Jackson's roles in the Army of Northern Virginia was saving Lee's butt on many occasions. For example, Lee was reluctant to fight defensively even though everything he should have learned early on in the war suggested that defenders had a huge advantage over attackers.
They weren't likely to get it. For example, France had renounced slavery, which would have made supporting the Confederacy really difficult politically. The Brits in particular had internal reasons to oppose the Confederacy, and it didn't help that the Confederates never had the diplomatic infrastructure the Union had throughout the war.
1. Even if that were true, that didn't matter much when the Union could field many more troops.
2. The Union troops were consistently better fed and better equipped than the Confederates, because they had approximately twice the civilian resources to work with and almost all the industrial capacity at the start of the war. For example, USA fairly early on issued repeating rifles to their cavalry and mounted infantry that could fire 20 rounds per minute to the Confederate's 3, giving their units a distinct advantage.
Another major advantage the Union had, which did not go completely unnoticed by the Confederacy, was that throughout much of the south the Union Army had a ready-made spy network in the form of the slaves. Sherman in particular routinely received detailed information on where he could find supplies and Confederate forces from the slaves who of course knew their own plantations perfectly well and had also managed to establish networks of information transfer between plantations right under their masters' noses.
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The Confederates had a chance of winning battles in the Eastern Theater, mainly due to Union general's incompetence, but not much chance of winning the war.
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