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Students Wearing American Flag Shirts Sent Home

buck said:
I would be willing to bet this is probably not true. The members of the military tend to be more conservative. Consequently, it seems logical that more conservatives.
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Not only that but Liberals tend to cut and run to Canada if there is a draft......
 
Considering that the kids who did this admitted that they were doing this to create a conflict they should be punished for that and ONLY that, just as anyone should who tries to provoke. It has nothing to do with the fact that they were wearing an American flag. I don't think it's necessarily meant to disparage the US flag or anything about this country. That being said, it's stupid that such a conflict could arise from simply wearing a US flag, considering that Cinco De Mayo is a Mexican holiday and that this is the US. People seem to love getting outraged over non-issues.
 
Navy Pride said:
Not only that but Liberals tend to cut and run to Canada if there is a draft......
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Perhaps you could stay on topic instead of coming up with idiotic stereotypes about liberals. Yeah, we get it Navy. We got it a long time ago. You don't like liberals. If you want to have a liberal bashing thread, create one of your own and you can stereotype to your heart's content.
 
buck said:
I would be willing to bet this is probably not true. The members of the military tend to be more conservative. Consequently, it seems logical that more conservatives.
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Ironic, since it is a soldier's job to obey the president (thus the government) and they receive their money from the government (socialism) and conservatives are supposed to hate the government.

Why is that?
 
Catz Part Deux said:
That's why i stated that disruption would need to be proven and documented by the school.
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If the American flag causes disruption at this school then it has no business staying open and being funded through the stolen property of American citizens.
 
Catz Part Deux said:
So, in your world, it's okay for a student to remove school property from the campus for ideological reasons? Why can't the school display a Mexican flag, again, on Cinco de Mayo? For all you know, the Spanish language classes were having a fiesta as part of the cultural studies they do.\
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Perhaps students found it offensive and were causing a disturbance.

Students are not allowed to just walk around the school removing banners and flags at their personal whim. Yeah, he should receive a suspension, though preferably in-school.
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American flag = fair game.

Mexican flag = off limits.

Gotcha.
 
Agent Ferris said:
Hispanic who are offended by the American flag certainly do.
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Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the offense had nothing to do with the American flag and had everything to do with the attitudes and actions of a select few that wanted to cause a disturbance?
 
Agent Ferris said:
Hispanic who are offended by the American flag certainly do.
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I don't know why people try to turn the argument into this bs about hating America. The kids who wore these flags admitted that they were doing so to provoke. How does that translate into hispanic people hating America? Obviously they weren't offended by the American flag based on what it represents. That's absurd.
 
disneydude said:
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the offense had nothing to do with the American flag and had everything to do with the attitudes and actions of a select few that wanted to cause a disturbance?
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You mean the attitude that they have the right to wear the American flag on American soil? **** these kids, they're anti-American little ****s, they need to be expelled and the principle needs to be fired.
 
Dr_Patrick said:
I don't know why people try to turn the argument into this bs about hating America. The kids who wore these flags admitted that they were doing so to provoke.
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And if someone wearing the American flag provokes someone then that someone obviously has a problem with America.

How does that translate into hispanic people hating America? Obviously they weren't offended by the American flag based on what it represents. That's absurd.
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Give me a ****ing break, what's absurd is the idiotic assertion that someone who is provoked by the American flag isn't anti-American.
 
Agent Ferris said:
And if someone wearing the American flag provokes someone then that someone obviously has a problem with America.Give me a ****ing break, what's absurd is the idiotic assertion that someone who is provoked by the American flag isn't anti-American.
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Perhaps if you rely on hyperbole and absurd talking points. :roll:
 
Navy Pride said:
Because they burn them all the time at their stupid rallys...........
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Try to wrap your head around this big concept...

The flag is a symbol of the freedom to burn it...in a safe manner with a permit.
 
Agent Ferris said:
If the American flag causes disruption at this school then it has no business staying open and being funded through the stolen property of American citizens.
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Wow. This is a thoughtful response that takes case law such as Tinker into account.
 
Agent Ferris said:
Yes I know, a person who is provoked by the site of an American flag doesn't hate America. Good show. :roll:
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First, it's SIGHT, not site. Secondly, I've seen kids wearing all kinds of things to reflect gang affiliation and/or to stir up conflicts with rival groups at school.
 
Agent Ferris said:
If the American flag causes disruption at this school then it has no business staying open and being funded through the stolen property of American citizens.
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I don't think it was the flag that was causing the problem... tensions between whites and Mexicans... white kids baiting (like what goes on around here) Mexicans into a fight...
 
Agent Ferris said:
And if someone wearing the American flag provokes someone then that someone obviously has a problem with America.

Give me a ****ing break, what's absurd is the idiotic assertion that someone who is provoked by the American flag isn't anti-American.
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So what if they're anti-government?
 
Agent Ferris said:
You mean the attitude that they have the right to wear the American flag on American soil? **** these kids, they're anti-American little ****s, they need to be expelled and the principle needs to be fired.
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No...the attitude that people can't show ethnic heritage pride and USE the American flag as a symbol to justify their hatred.
THAT isn't showing respect and honor for the American flag or its ideals.
 
disneydude said:
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the offense had nothing to do with the American flag and had everything to do with the attitudes and actions of a select few that wanted to cause a disturbance?
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Again though, if they made comments to the other kids then that should be what is used as the disturbance. However, saying that just wearing the American flag on a shirt is a disturbance is absurd IMHO.

They should have never been sent home because of the shirts they were wearing, but because of theircomments if that is what happened.
 
Agent Ferris said:
Yes I know, a person who is provoked by the site of an American flag doesn't hate America. Good show. :roll:
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We both know it goes beyond that and has nothing to do with being anti-American. However, you seem to thrive on overreacting about things, so I don't expect reasoned or logical commentary on the issue from you.
 
TheNextEra said:
Again though, if they made comments to the other kids then that should be what is used as the disturbance. However, saying that just wearing the American flag on a shirt is a disturbance is absurd IMHO.

They should have never been sent home because of the shirts they were wearing, but because of theircomments if that is what happened.
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It doesn't really matter what was on their shirts. The fact is that they wore them to provoke and cause conflict. They even admitted this. That alone makes their punishment somewhat justified.
 
TheNextEra said:
Again though, if they made comments to the other kids then that should be what is used as the disturbance. However, saying that just wearing the American flag on a shirt is a disturbance is absurd IMHO.

They should have never been sent home because of the shirts they were wearing, but because of theircomments if that is what happened.
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I'm not disagreeing with you. I don't think they should have been sent home.

But those who are trying to make it look like they were sent home because they were being patriotic and that sending them home was a sign of hating this country....are just hyper-partisans being intellectually dishonest.
 
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