I use America Online as my browser. That's because I'm stuck with dial up (pity me). So every time I log on, the AOL welcome screen comes up with rotating headlines on general News, Sports and Entertainment.
I saw this picture on the news.
That's horrible! The school banned the American flag! So I clicked on the link. This picture came up.
In case you can't read the first paragraph:
Dozens of high school students protested a temporary school policy forbidding students from displaying the U.S. flag — as well as flags from other countries — amid racial tensions following immigration rallies.
Wait, I thought, the story says that the policy banned all flags, not just the American flag like the misleading headline implies.
The USA Today has a better picture alongside the story.
The school did not just ban American flags. The school banned all flags. But I'm sure that O'Reilly, Limbaugh and other Right Wing pundits will not see this distinction. Instead they will focus - like the AOL headline and accompanying polls - on the banning of the American flag.
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That's so messed uo. How can you ban the American Flag from a school in the United States of America??
Congratulations on missing the point.
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There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
I cracked up when I read your reply.
I try.
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There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Banning the American Flag? Doesn't that take away from your freedom of expression?
A public school is a public school. I would be aghast if they did ban all flags, except for the Stars and Stripes. However the point is not whose flags were banned, the point is that in a school, a place of learning and wisdom, flags had to be taken down. When did academic interest and equal representation become something to be feared and rioted over? It is great to have opinions and passion, but there has to be logic and rational thought that can appreciate other cultures, weather we are at war with them or not.
I say ban all flags except for the American one, this is our country anyways. There are, however, exceptions. St. Patricks Day? Show the Irish flag. Mexican Independence Day? Show the Mexican flag. (Notice I said "show" not "fly")
In a prime example of overusing the whole "I have a flag" concept, on St. Patty's Day this year some cadets held an Irish flag, and then you see Mexicans holding a Mexico flag! How completely absurd is that? I'm talking about giving one day to show your colours, not whenever the hell you want to. St. Patty's Day is not "I'm Mexican, not Irish, and I'll show you that Day". Totally absurd.
In addition, no one flies anything above the American flag.
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity"
-Albert Einstein
Wow. That is the exact opposite of free speech. Congratulations on proposing to do away with the First Amendment.
Putting a foreign flag above the American flag on American soil is against the law, but it isn't treason, and it isn't a horrible felony like many are acting like it is.
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There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
I think that the media portrays issue how they think would make the story better.