From a Facebook friend’s feed:

Just went to the hotel lobby to get a bite to eat for breakfast. I’m wearing my dive bandana with the diver down flag symbol on it. This guy starts getting in my face about it being a racist symbol… SERIOUSLY? Are people really this stupid and dense?

Short answer is Yes! This is the flag that offended the alleged asshole.

This is nothing new. The Diver Down flag was created in 1956 so it is over six decades old and has been probably in any modern movie and any National Geographic or other Nature show where diving is being shown.

I can only assume that Mr. Offended thought he was seeing a version of the Confederate Flag and that gave him the right to be offended and attack whomever was sporting it. I guess the best I can come up with an equivalent is that they are a Liberal Sharia Police. who is roaming the streets looking for “offensive” people and things to exact immediate justice in the name of.. something or other that only makes sense to them.

But this is telling:

What I have seen in YouTube videos was not promising and comments from old heads are also not “nice.” I was hoping to rejoining the sport after I got my crap fixed and then comment, but it seems by the time that happens there won’t be a sport left.