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I have never understood the fetishization of Flags, Anthems and Pledges of allegiance.
If your country wants to you respect it then it needs to do things that are worthy of respect rather than demanding it as default.
@Radical_EgoCom I remember being HARASSED even in my SENIOR YEAR about not wanting to stand for the pledge. The pledge is such garbage. Outdated brainwashing bullshit. Totally useless.
It's not only disgusting, it's also showing that the U.S.A. are going down a very dangerous path — the one we Germans were going 100 years ago. The writing says nothing else than "Free speech is for the ones who think of their own, and that's not tolerated here. You have to think as same as the teacher does, otherwise you'll fail all of us." That's how Hitler's path was smoothened, and it happens again...
@TheAuthorVivian Fun fact the original salute was a bit more hitlerly. And the pledge didn't always talk about God.
Part of America is free speech which includes being able to refuse to say something. People can have a few reasons for it. Most are probably religious rather than teens having a political opinion. And if they are abstaining due to a political opinion I highly doubt those scribbles on the board are going to convince anyone. They probably have good reason to feel weird about it and as far as protests go not doing a thing shouldn't get anyone's panties in a wad.
Saying the pledge everyday for a decade or so doesn't inspire anyone. It makes the pledge a boring routine that glosses over any meaning it might have had. (This is actually the legal argument for why it's ok to talk about God by the way.) The kids certainly didn't get much meaning saying that shit in kindergarten.
@Radical_EgoCom@aprilfollies “Mr. G.” seems to like telling people what to do. Lots of useless stuff up on those walls. (Former teacher here - I wonder if he actually helps them learn good study habits, as opposed to telling them to really study)
@Radical_EgoCom I remember the first day of my US History class years ago(it was my first class of the day) at a school in a deeply red state. Before anything else, the instructors made it clear that refusing to stand for the pledge was entirely okay. Had(and still have) a religious obligation against the pledge, so it was nice to not have to do it.
The rest of said class also involved digging deep into the fucked up parts of the history and also providing the skills to see that yes, some of this is still ingrained into our society today, so make of that what you will.
@Radical_EgoCom Duval Schools… yup, that checks out. I have a couple guesses of which school that is too.
Also, we bad a black woman superintendent. She got ousted over a scandal about a teacher sleeping with students, but I’m not even sure she was aware of the reports.
@JeffAnthony@Radical_EgoCom I have no idea! I can’t believe how bold people have become. At my kid’s middle school, a teacher was being sued for calling a kid the n-word in class. I believe she was still working there too (not sure, grain of salt).
I checked. None of the articles says she was fired, so she’s probably still there.
"And he asked her, 'How would you feel if people kept using racial slurs against you and called you a cracker.' And she said to him, 'n word, you don't have the privilege to discriminate against white people because Black people are inferior to white people," Rand said.
@Radical_EgoCom Definitely time to complain. #OOF, blatantly unconstitutional and creates a hostile classroom environment.
I like how the first paragraph is in no way logically linked to their "point ".
If anything, the first paragraph provides evidence for the opposite conclusion.
@Radical_EgoCom To presume that because somehwhere has achieved slightly less awful results then literally the worst places on earth, that it should not be criticized on where it still fails, so it can be even better is to sabotage progress and be unpatriotic and thus unamerican.
@Radical_EgoCom Someone needs to tell the teacher that opinions are like as****es. Everyone has one, and the teachers isn't any more valid than anyone elses.
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