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While I think this government is loaded with pedophile scum and they should all be shot out of a canon into the sun, I don't think this is a first amendment rights violation.
If the person in question had been fired for hanging a pride flag in his apartment window, that would be a violation of his first amendment rights. However putting it on his desk in a federal office building is different.
The federal government shouldn't be seen as endorsing any particular view. Unfortunately, if some homophobic dickhead needs to talk to an agent, they shouldn't be concerned about whether the agent will treat them differently.
The scum running the FBI likely wouldn't care if someone was displaying a Nazi flag on their desk, but they'd probably be forced to respond.
Or maybe not.
Acknowledging people exist isn't political. Regressives act like it is, but it isn't.
A pride flag on a desk is like having pictures of your kids on your desk.
A pride flag on your desk, during the Biden administration, ages ago, apparently is, for Mr. Patel.
It would be much a nicer world to live in if that was true.
EVERYTHING is political, and we live in a world where fascists make existence a political issue.
The comparison to a Nazi flag is absurd. A better comparison would be if an agent had a straight price flag on their desk. And no, the agent would not have lost their job under this regime for such a display.
I wasn't really intending to suggest it was equivalent. I was just thinking of something we could almost universally agree shouldn't be permitted... but probably would be by the current administration.
In effect, I was reaching for the absurd. If it was a free speech issue, then a Nazi flag would be just as protected.