Actually, we don’t know that anyone was offended by the 5 student’s t-shirts. What we know is that the school admins felt there was sufficient cause to expect disruptions that they told the boys to change their shirts or leave the property.
Still, your bigoted little rant was certainly an injection into the discourse of this thread! Perhaps next time you can raise the prospect of sending all the really dark-skinned people back to Africa, or you could showcase your verve and wit by posting “USA! USA! Love it or leave it, you hippies!”
Bullshit. It’s about kids wanting to see just how fucked up their school and country was. They found out. They found out that some liberals (not all, and I’m gratified to see many here stick up for the kids—kudos) really don’t give a shit about culture unless it’s a non-American one.
It was also in the fucking United States of America. You want to fall all over yourself for a Mexican holiday, go to, let’s see—MEXICO.
I’m sure they’d like to say the same thing to you. And have plenty of support around here if they did.
There wearing American flag shirts in an American school in America. If there is ANY potential disruption, you quash it by addressing those people who have a problem with it. Those kids were 100% within their rights. Good for them for exposing the douchebag in the school. And for giving you yet another opportunity to demonstrate your own impressive douchbaggery. You’re a Master, you are.
I don’t know where your getting this bit about the students being told that (it’s not in the OP’s link), but so what? What business is it of the school to be telling students what they should be celebrating? We’re talking about High School students here, not kindergarteners.
A school that has fear of violence erupting because some students where American Flag symbols has some MAJOR problems. I know enough about Live Oak HS to know it’s not that kind of a school.
You must forgive him. He has a small mind. Just look at the asinine comparisons he’s offered. And while I’m accustomed to my stance on illegal immigration resulting in idiots like him calling me a racist for that, how we moved to Blacks and Africa is a mystery. Yes, his mind works in mysterious ways.
First off, this wasn’t even in response to your ignorant interpretation of my previous post. In fact, it wasn’t to you at all.
It was in response to a bigot wanting to send all the Mexicans back to Mexico, even tho most of not all of the students he’s referring to are American citizens. The point I was making, lost on you again, was that magellon doesn’t care about their citizenship, only their ancestry. That’s a bigotry you won’t ever find coming from me.
magellon had no argument to ignore; he never does.
I wrote my Congressman a letter of appreciation for opposing the illegalization of flagburning several years ago (different Congressman than I have now, who supported it) in which I remarked the wisdom of the builders of the U.S. Capitol that the statue of Freedom on the dome flies higher than the U.S. flag, and how I believe this is one of the most powerful statements made in architecture.
At the time I didn’t realize the dome was designed, building begun and the statue chosen by Jefferson Davis (D- MS), but I still like the general analogy. (Davis never saw it completed or the statue erected due to his career change.)
So you support the banning of Homecoming, Valentine’s Day, Memorial Day, President’s Day, etc? Or is all of that somehow not a case of the school telling students what they should be celebrating?
And even if the school didn’t officially sponsor the day, they knew enough about their student body to know that the students would be participating in the days events, and thus determined that activities contrary would be potentially disruptive, and sought to curtail them.
I doesn’t have to be a bench clearing brawl. One fight between 2 students would have been more than enough, and as it was the school had zero brawls.
Were you raising these same objections to the pink hair, the Islam t-shirt, or any of the other cases I linked to?
Or are you only now concerned because you’ve bought into the line I posted (semi-sarcastically) earlier (White Kids Can’t Bring U.S.A. Flags To School Because of Mexicans)?
Eh, around here schools and many government offices are closed on Casimir Pulaski Day. How many people who aren’t a) Polish, or b) living in Cook County, IL even know who the hell he was?
Uh, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that mlees probably knew that he didn’t write the words that you quoted when you responded with your cry of racism. He was just taken aback by the depths you so easily sink to.
I can see why this would get under your skin. It’s not because I was backhanding them because they were Mexican (which I wasn’t), it’s because they are assholes. Just like you. So that at least makes sense.
The sending them to Mexico part just seems like the sensible thing to do for people who are so enamored with Mexican holidays. But you really didn’t get that, did you?
Celebrating your heritage has become a very important part of the American mythos. Land of Immigrants and all that. In fact, I would say it’s a very American thing to do, an especially American thing to do, this celebrating your immigrant history. It’s something we do here that, AIUI, other nations don’t do. For many people, it’s part of what makes you culturally an American, that your people came from somewhere else and made a better life for themselves.
There are, of course, the obvious similarities to St. Patrick’s Day (when no one tells me to go back to Ireland), but just looking at a list of ethnic festivals in Nebraska, there’s Swedish Festivals, Danish Festivals, Germanfests, Italian Fests, Greek Fests. I assume this is standard everywhere.
It’s part of the American experience, to be from somewhere else and to be proud of where you came from. I think we should take care to not imply that it’s ok for me to be proud of my Irish/English/Swedish/German immigrant history and identity, but it’s not ok for Mexicans to be proud of their Mexican history and immigrant identity. I hope I make myself clear when I say that only in America is celebrating where you came from an important part of assimilating.
I think it is fine for someone to celebrate their roots. Perfectly fine. What’s NOT fine is finding the American flag offensive and expecting Americans to give a shit that you think that it might be. Or expecting it to not fly because your home country flag is more important in some way. If that is the case, that just go the back to your home country.
Actually, nitwit, it’s not a holiday in Mexico, it’s a holiday about Mexico. It’s primarily celebrated in the US and in the Mexican state of Puebla (where it has been recognized as a regional holiday).
Do you want to stop all those holidays that are celebrated by people of European descent?
How about religious holidays that our government observes? Have you been leading the charge to stop them?
I didn’t say that. I said the school shouldn’t be engaged in telling students whether or not they should celebrate something or in what manner they should do so. If they do, students should feel free to completely ignore that advice w/o adverse consequence. As for federal and state holidays… it’s hard to have school in session when the people who work there have the day off. So please don’t make more of ass of yourself than you already are by twisting what I said into suggesting I think students shouldn’t have to take off school holidays.
