I work at a 3rd-6th public school in MA. I wore this hat to celebrate Pride month and last week of school. I am known for my 25 days of holiday hats I wear around the winter holidays. I do mostly Santa hats but also make sure to include secular hats/Hanuikka hats. No one has a problem with it and the kids LOVE it because the hats get progressively more outrageous the closer it gets to break.
So yesterday I get in the door and My Lead says “Do you have to wear that hat?” I replied “What? Its a rainbow hat for pride month?” And shrugged. Then my most vocal and conservative coworker came in and told me that “my hat is inappropriate”. I replied that d"iversity, tolerance, and inclusion is ALWAYS appropriate". She came back with " if it was just a rainbow hat but with the Pride sticker on there its not ok. You want tolerance and repect but you aren’t respected the other side. You know I dont believe in that and in front of the kids, its bad enough in front of us knowing we don’t believe in that." So I asked her if she wanted to bring it to HR. She said no and i offered to turn my hat around. Then My called HR who told her that my hat is fine. Lol.
The kicker is the coworker was wearing a Black Flag hat!
edit Black American Flag hat worn by conservatives in the US
I would say it’s impressive how you were able to meet enough of the over 350 million Americans to make such confident generalizations about them.
your argunent is what?
if you meet a new dane or a german once a week and they all like beer or schnitzel…then you kinda get the impression it might be their thing. sure, not all germans drink beer, but it is safe to say that indicator is sth
and if that happens for decades it is fair to generalize. sure we can look up some stats ( https://uni.de/redaktion/amerikanische-spezialisten-versus-deutsche-generalisten ) that’ll say the same…but do americans read? not really. neither did you pull up anything convincing.