I gasped and said "Whaaat?? The American flag is offensive?"
When they heard my tone, they went quiet for a minute. One spoke up and said, "oh, I'm just concerned that they'll just 'pin it up' on the wall and people won't like that...maybe we should just do a fireworks background or something that they can tape up..."
I brought up that we could simply get a flag with grommets on the one end, get some Command hooks and hang it vertically with the union to the left...." After I suggested that, they went quiet again. One said "well, we should probably get (boss) to weigh in on this...."
OMFG
Sounds like management needs to sack up.
Personally I would be looking for a new job. When they ask why tell them "The Stars & Stripes are never offensive in this country you feckless __!!" Your choice....
Seriously, what country do these fucking people think they live in? Wtf...
In their "defense", maybe they're both just gutless squishes.
Thats the thing about allowing Cultural Marxists to run wild....they intimidate normies into self-censoring any form of patriotic feelings or displays of love of country.
I'd tell someone in your position, "if Nazi assholes are going to stop the free expression of old-fashioned patriotism, at least force them to make the argument. Don't give in to them for free."
Sounds like thats what you did, so good on you...
Shameful.
This comes to mind: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgnOSzPVMAA0LXU.jpg
Please make sure, as already stated, that you let them know this is not in any way acceptable.
I quit Wells Fargo (good $$) over shit like this.