I'm bringing it up because the rules are inconsistent. A wedding ring is a cultural adornment. It's allowed except in scenarios that involves using machinery that it would be a health hazard.
So we have many cultural adornments allowed, except this one particular one. So it's not "the rules are the rules" kind of scenario. There is a specific reason why the BLM masks are being singled out.
Masks are allowed. Similar to a hair scrunchy or hair clip it's something the company should prefer the employees to wear because it improves safety.
Does having BLM on the mask make it a safety concern? Nope, it doesn't. The mask improves safety having a mask that the employee likes wearing makes it more likely they'll wear it, so allowing BLM masks is encouraging better safety.
And what's the reason? The far right has deemed a cultural item to be undesirable. Why would a political movement deem a cultural adornment often worn by a certain ethnicity to be undesirable?
Sorry but logic just isn't on your side with this one. It's discouraging a commonly accepted cultural adornment that's being done solely out of political motivations of the employer. Other cultural adornments are allowed (some are even encouraged when they improve safety) but this particular adornment is being singled out despite the fact that it improves safety. The BLM masks are only considered political speech by a subset of the population who are of a certain political persuasion.
It's a politically motivated attack against cultural expression, ie. culture war bullshit. Am I meant to not notice that there's one political party is promoting this "culture war" crap and pretend the actions of Amazon aren't politcal while some underpaid worker wearing a BLM mask isn't cultural?