Man gets in trouble for exercising rights afforded to him as a citizen.
I sure hope the people in the thread shitting on the constitution hate the 2nd amendment as much as they hate the 1st.
Man gets in trouble for exercising rights afforded to him as a citizen.
I sure hope the people in the thread shitting on the constitution hate the 2nd amendment as much as they hate the 1st.
To those specific people the flag isn't a piece of cloth, akin to a napkin or a blanket - but a touchable item that symbolizes those values.
To said people disrespecting the flag isn't merely desecrating a piece of cloth, but showing that they do not care about what the flag symbolizes.
I doubt that there would be the same backlash if he had actually burned\stomped\whatever an actual piece of cloth.
It is a fucking flag... this part about America never ceases to astound me: ''OMG THEY'RE STOMPING ON A DYED PIECE OF FABRIC! BURN IN HELL TRAITOR COMMIE!''... Animals being treated like shit: ''eh idgaf *eats hamburgers*''
and this is where I cant really argue with you, because we have radically different view points on this.
but maybe its cause I saw a racist cop arrest Ricky Williams for not giving his given name (but lets other people with similar 'I go by this name but its not my legal name" go free. He got hsi ass fired once it was revealed he was running a racist website against blacks. SO in that vein, I can sympathise with the protest because there are shit cops who shit all over minorities.
Because some people haven't yet gotten over it and attach undue worth to it. It highlights, as proven here, that everyone still goes nuts for cloth.
No one's trying to 'win supporters', it's not a black and white issue, or 'us vs them'. Trying to turn it into one just makes things worse.
The fact you think it's a 'material representation' just reinforces my point about how weird the American view is. If I draw a flag in paint, is that a representation of the ideals too? Where'd you draw the line?
That is your opinion which you are entitled to. I can have the opposite opinion.
One side feels they are important, the other side does not. That goes with many views.
Burning the symbol of the entire country is such an anti American cop out that anyone who uses it is the true un-American IMO. (See, cuts both ways.)
I suppose your list of "good people" is limited only to people who get a raging boner when they hear the word America? I mean hell you've got quite a range of people here, from people expressing their, however distasteful opinion via the flag to people who literally kill other Americans who don't agree with them.
Protip: you don't get to decide who are bad people. You'll find your life runs a lot easier when you realize that the reason all the people you don't like aren't being punished, arrested, or deported is because they're not actually breaking the law.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
I mean, if he was trying to show how the first amendment is the crowing doctrine of our society and how even the most taboo speech and demonstration not only can but must be allowed to be a truly free society then I don't think he should be punished. If he was doing it because he's trying to instill white guilt in them early, then yea that kind of idealotry is well out of scope of his lessons. So I see no reason for it to be part of the lesson and he's just using his status as a teacher to push his beliefs.
Either way if he's going after the student who took the picture he's a nutcase. Also an idiot who doesn't understand defamation.