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   -=> Gregory Deyss wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-   
      
    GD> On 21 Aug 2020, Dennis Katsonis said the following...   
      
    DK> -=> Gregory Deyss wrote to All <=-   
    DK>   
    DK>  GD> Get Woke? Go Broke!   
    DK>   
    DK>  GD> Goodyear put out a Zero Tolerance policy against attire   
    DK>   
    DK>  GD> Unacceptable   
    DK>  GD> Blue Lives Matter   
    DK>  GD> All Lives Matter   
    DK>  GD> Maga Attire   
    DK>  GD> Political Affiliated Slogans or Materials   
    DK>   
    DK>  GD> Acceptable   
    DK>  GD> Black Lives Matter   
    DK>  GD> LGBT   
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    DK>  GD> Within 60 Seconds the Goodyear stock plummeted.   
      
    DK> Now, I can understand a "leave your politics at home" policy.  I'm OK   
    DK> with that, because you should make sure people can work together, and   
    DK> you don't go to work to make political statement to a trapped audience.   
    DK> But that is not what this is in this case.   
      
    GD> Even though I am a Trump Supporter I too can understand a corporate   
    GD> policy that does not allow for MAGA attire.   
      
    GD> Might not sit well with other people who's views or beliefs are the   
    GD> same as yours, even though liberals around the water-cooler do not show   
    GD> the same restraint.   
      
    GD> Where I draw the line is not allowing Blue Lives Matter, or having   
    GD> a issue with the term All Lives Matter why is that considered   
    GD> offensive?   
      
    GD> The types people would take issue with the Phrase "All Lives Matter"   
    GD> They consider this to be equal to be an personal attack upon them and   
    GD> as it would seem to generate the false outrage as if to suggest that   
    GD> you're downplaying or proving a second seat for Black Lives. I would   
    GD> call that taking it to extremes. The Black Lives movement has stopped   
    GD> being about the downtrodden black folk a long time ago,  as it has   
    GD> morphed into an excuse commit angry carnage that results in nothing but   
    GD> destruction and and even death. These people are psychotic and full of   
    GD> fake rage. We need a purge!   
      
    GD> As a matter of fact an Indiana women Doty Whitaker was shot and killed   
    GD> for saying the phrase All lives Matter.   
      
    GD> or take the case of 5 year old white child Cannon Hinnant who was just   
    GD> riding his bike as he was shot and killed at close range by a black man   
    GD> who was his family's next door neighbor.   
      
    GD> For those blacks who have done these things or for those who will do   
    GD> these acts of evil in the future their Black Lives shouldn't matter any   
    GD> more, for their lives are very much in forfeit.   
      
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   All Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter I agree is not political, and should not   
   be considered contentious.   
      
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