[user104658]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I'm not suggesting anything about the cause, to some people black lives matter just means acknowledging they matter, to others like me, it's a civil rights issue. Both are valid.

But on a contextless piece of clothing, how do you tell the difference? I don't even think it's necessarily a problem for it to be ambiguous but again that goes back to the "employer" issue - with a large employer, or somewhere like a school, they can't always offer a nuanced case-by-case basis and so it has to be a blanket policy or you end up tied up forever in discussions of "Well if she's allowed [X], why am I not allowed [Y]?" and it's not a University... they're there to run a basic education programme... they simply don't have time.

And that just circles back round to the second point; if you don't like your employers policy you have to accept it anyway, leave, or try to get it changed and THEN do the thing you wanted to do. You can't just say "stuff the policy, I don't like it and I think it's wrong!" and go ahead with what you want to do and then cry unfair at being fired.