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A 16-year-old's MAGA hat was blurred out of his high school yearbook

SouthernDemocrat said:
Everyone on earth, other than 35% of Americans or so that constitute Trump's core supporters, see him as an utterly despicable human being. I assure you, that is exactly how history will judge him.
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Astonishing nonsense.
 
Amelia said:
Tinker v. Des Moines has been cited multiple times in this thread, including by myself.

My initial point in this thread was that the students weren't guaranteed to have that picture in the yearbook. Their rights would not have been violated by having that photo left out. This uproar could have been avoided by simply leaving the photo in the discard pile with the thousands of other photos which were available but ultimately not included in the book.
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Translation:

It's okay to do the wrong thing if you do it cleverly.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
Have you guys even seen the picture? Its just the 2 kids with maga hats on and noone else in the picture. And they just purposely blurred out the 2 kids hats. The school just handed these 2 kids a 100,00$ lawsuit.
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Not at all.

Situation properly resolved.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
The picture was just of the 2 kids, not a whole group spirit like you guys claimed at first. These 2 kids are about to be rich for 16 year olds. (100,000$ is alot of money to a 16 year old)
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Never happen.
 
trixare4kids said:
What is a "needless political statement"? One the editor decided was "needless"?
If it is found that the editor blurred it out for the quoted reason above, the boy's first amendment rights were violated.

Tinker vs. Des Moines
(linked above)
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They weren't, but blurring was the wrong thing to do.

Situation now resolved.
 
Think of the hats!

The poor innocent hats!

Oh the hatmanity!
 
dirtpoorchris said:
From the school: "The mistake was not noticed during the editorial preview process prior to print. We apologize on behalf of the yearbook club. It is not the plicy or practice of the district to improperly censor speech."

You're guys' leftist hate on republicans just enabled a lawsuit and your hate is about to get this kid 100,000$ off of the taxpayers backs. Unless maybe the person who did this speaks up so the student can sue him for 5,000$.
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You really think one kid likely pulling a minor prank on another kid is going to net someone 100k eh?

You really thought it over, used all your very brain power, and that's your very best argument eh?
 
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Logician Man said:
If/when you are able to present any credible evidence for your positive claim...please present it. If not it, it will be summarily dismissed as mere speculation concocted out of very thin air.
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Utter nonsense.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
No it wasnt if you look at the picture it was just a picture with only the Maga hat wearers in it. There were no innocent bystanders standing next to the hats. The whole picture was just focused on the 2 kids, who had their hats edited.
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Yes - a group of two. Irrelevant. Correct.

Apologized for; end of story.
 
Amelia said:
And you continue to dodge. Do you think the confederate flag would be on the swastika side of the line or on the MAGA side of the line?

Is this a difficult question for you?

We know it's a difficult one for the person who brought us the MAGA hat.
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The only dodge is your trying to bring elements into MAGA that have no relevance to it. It is not hate to want America to be great, well, for most Americans. Do you think it is hateful to express that you want America to be great?
 
trixare4kids said:
What is a "needless political statement"? One the editor decided was "needless"?
If it is found that the editor blurred it out for the quoted reason above, the boy's first amendment rights were violated.

Tinker vs. Des Moines
(linked above)
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So if a student's comment in a year book is changed, or the school refuses to put it in the yearbook, that student should sue?

Trix, you really think that makes sense do you?
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
I am not the biggest fan of Hillary, but no, no she wasn't. Every bad quality that Hillary had is amplified in Trump. Trump is as though some mad scientist took ever horrible human quality and somehow assembled them in one person. The guy is a walking personality disorder.
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Not even close. Democrats are the worst human beings on the planet.
 
Crystal said:
Not even close. Democrats are the worst human beings on the planet.
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Ridiculous overgeneralizations and hyperbole are the worst kind of arguments.
 
Chillfolks said:
A 16-year-old'''s MAGA hat was blurred out of his high school yearbook - CNN



The mom says:

The school says:


So who do you beleive the mom that this was a deliberate act? Or the school who says it was an honest mistake?

Unless other hats were also blurred I have a hard time believing this was an accident especially with reports of people wearing MAGA clothing harassed receiving almost weekly news coverage.

If the school has a policy of not wearing political messages fine, the kids shouldn't of been allowed to wear their hats to begin with. If the picture didn't make the cut fine the boys weren't yearbook material. But putting it in and blurring it out just doesn't seem like an accident. At some point someone had to of used a photo editing software program to have the rest of the picture be so clear except for the hat. To me it seems the school district is blowing smoke and trying to cover up its poor choice.

What's your opinions?
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Reading through the first page of comments, one thought come to mind.

Somebody deliberately blurred the specific MAGA logo on those hats since there was no similar blurring on any other photos that was a political act. It is possible the editor honestly didn't catch it. Unlikely. But possible. Apparently there was nothing in the policy that stated nobody could make a non combative patriotic statement with their clothing. In this case, there was reasonable cause to point out unwarranted censorship and object to it. It does not warrant becoming front page national news.

But one thing is for sure. If those boys had been wearing "I'm with her" or "Obama" tee shirts or hats

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and somebody erased the images from those photos, the same folks shrugging off erasing MAGA from the hates would be screaming FOUL to the rooftops.
 
3leftsdoo said:
Censorship is good and something people should be thankful for.
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Adult supervision is usually something a teenager rebels against but with time, that teenager comes to the realization that adults were usually right. This kid may think this is very unfair now but will one day be very thankful some adult helped him out.
 
AlbqOwl said:
Reading through the first page of comments, one thought come to mind.

Somebody deliberately blurred the specific MAGA logo on those hats since there was no similar blurring on any other photos that was a political act. It is possible the editor honestly didn't catch it. Unlikely. But possible. Apparently there was nothing in the policy that stated nobody could make a non combative patriotic statement with their clothing. In this case, there was reasonable cause to point out unwarranted censorship and object to it. It does not warrant becoming front page national news.

But one thing is for sure. If those boys had been wearing "I'm with her" or "Obama" tee shirts or hats

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and somebody erased the images from those photos, the same folks shrugging off erasing MAGA from the hates would be screaming FOUL to the rooftops.
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The reason MAGA is controversial is because it represents Trump. Trump is an abomination. Comparing his message with any other President in the last 100 years is giving him far too much respect. It is better to call MAGA for what it is, a joke and an insult to our very identity as a nation.
 
Its a HS yearboook. And no place for politics, get the stick out of your arse.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
So you dont care about freedom of speech if its a Republican getting thrown under the bus?
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How exactly did they get thrown under the bus? HS is no place for politics unless its in civics class. But if those MAGA hat wearers had gone to civics class they would know there idol wipes his arse with the Constitution just to spite Liberals. Now that is petty, as is this thread. Over and out !!
 
Vadinho said:
The reason MAGA is controversial is because it represents Trump. Trump is an abomination. Comparing his message with any other President in the last 100 years is giving him far too much respect. It is better to call MAGA for what it is, a joke and an insult to our very identity as a nation.
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The more than sixty million of us who do not see the President as an abomination do not intend to easily give the most malicious, hateful, judgmental, intolerant, and dishonest of the TDS crowd authority over who we will choose to support or how we will choose to do that so long as we do not violate your ability to do the same. Thanks for understanding.
 
Vadinho said:
Adult supervision is usually something a teenager rebels against but with time, that teenager comes to the realization that adults were usually right. This kid may think this is very unfair now but will one day be very thankful some adult helped him out.
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It's unknown if this involved adults; bizarre assertion. Complete nonsense.
 
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