American flag case: U.S. Supreme Court ends Morgan Hill flap over shirts

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  1. After Hours

    After Hours Well-Known Member

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    Well, we could play all types of what if's, yeah? The fact that they don't wear them on Saint Patricks day kind of shows the true agenda of it all, eh?

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    Please. The majority I see celebrating cinco de mayo are drunken Americans looking for an excuse to party and get drunk. If it's all about "Mexico", then you wouldn't see that.
     
  2. RiseAgainst

    RiseAgainst Banned

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    Saint Patrick's Day celebrates Irish heritage. Cinco De Mayo is used by Mexicans in America to promote Mexican Nationalism.

    Two completely different things.
     
  3. After Hours

    After Hours Well-Known Member

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    Well, around where I live I see white American dudes and black American dudes getting drunk AF, and celebrating it more than anyone else. Who knew they were Mexican Nationalists? Guess you learn something new every day.
     
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    Where i am from it is used by mexicans to, in general, promote the country of Mexico over America.

    My grandfather was 100% Irish. He was a proud American until the day he died and if anything the American flag served as only a reminder to him how he fought to defend it in WWII.
     
  5. northwinds

    northwinds Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He was clearly being 'disruptive'...........
     
  6. After Hours

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    Speaking of Saint Patricks day, the same drunken clowns who get drunk on Cinco De Mayo also get drunk on Saint Patricks day. Which means both "holidays" are nothing more than excuses for drunk party goers to get...drunk. Funny how that works out, eh?
     
  7. Brewskier

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    Provoke what? Don't these Mexican kids support the American flag? Why is it an insult to them?

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    Let's say that's true. There would be nothing to provoke if these Mexican students loved the country they were living in as much as the country their parents fled from and care here illegally because of.
     
  8. After Hours

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    Well actually, the burden of proof would be on you to prove their parents fled Mexico, and came here illegally.
     
  9. Brewskier

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    I can't prove that. But ~20 million+ illegals having an average of about 4 children per couple would put the likelihood in my favor.
     
  10. Steve N

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    Yeah, Mexican Americans.
     
  11. btthegreat

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    I love it. We have some folks standing up for a bunch of students who refused to do what the school principal told them to do with respect to appropriate attire. I really don't care why the principal made the call, my kids do NOT get to decide they know better. They don't and neither do I, sitting at home every day. If the principal tells my kid to turn the friggin shirt inside out or cover it, then he better get his ass into the restroom, turn his shirt inside out or cover it and save his 'patriotism' speeches for later.

    Geez, this is ridiculous.
     
  12. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I agree that kids should do what the principal tells them to do, but what makes the principal right? This is political correctness run amok and the kids got caught up in it and proud Americans lost and proud Mexicans won. What's next, forcing kids to habla?
     
  13. btthegreat

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    I'll tell you what makes him right. He's in the middle of this potential powder keg, he's the one who's going to end up with the kids brawling on the football field, with possible liability and the district bureaucrats drilling him a new one whatever goes down, the cops, the suspensions/ expulsions, and the pissed off parents on all sides. None of us are principals of a high school near that border and I'll bet a LOT of money none of us ever, EVER want to be a principal of a high school in Peoria, let alone down there.

    I'll let him make the call because he's the one trapped on all sides with rocks and hard places. I am passing no judgements. I am grateful he wakes up each day and tries. My kid better march to his drumbeat.
     
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    The purpose to disrupt is the fact that anyone gets offended over the American flag. What is even more embarrassing is the fact that those kids don't even truly know what the hell Cinco de Mayo truly was or is for that matter and pretend like it is some national holiday in mexico when it is not. Only 1 state in mexico truly celebrates it, the rest of the country goes on as usual.

    Americans just exploited the date to gain alcohol sales, and most Americans think May 5th is the Mexican Independence day lmao.

    But the fact of the matter is, if those kids who get offended over seeing the American flag on the 5th of may....Then they are the morons who truly need to get educated. They need to understand that the 5th of May was just one day, the American flag symbol of something that is the reason for Mexico still being here.

    but hey, who cares about facts right? (*)(*)(*)(*) the USA and just keep pretending that May 5th is something more important than the country that saved Mexico's ass. And if it wasn't for the country that "ZOMG OFFENSIVE" flag represents, then their little ignorant asses wouldn't even be celebrating 1 victory out of a (*)(*)(*)(*) load of ass kickings.
     
  15. fifthofnovember

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    You said "the event" was a cultural exchange. By "the event", I assumed you meant Cinco de Mayo. Was there some other "event" going on? Because now the "exchange" of the "event" has turned into "a day to learn about Hispanic culture" (one sided, no exchange allowed). And how does wearing a US flag disrupt anything except a demonstration against the flag? A person who has no problem with the flag should not be disrupted at all.
     
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    What if the principal required all female students at the school, including your daughters, to wear a hajib everyday so as to not offend the Muslim males who are threatening violence if this is not required of all female students?........based upon your post I would have to assume you would tell your daughters to get their ass into the restroom and put on a hajib......
     
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    The student body should get started in political activism and wear American flag shirts every day.
     
  18. jcarlilesiu

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    Does it matter?

    When wearing a picture of the American flag, ON ANY DAY, in this country is disruptive or proactive, those prior who feel disrupted or provoked should pack their (*)(*)(*)(*) and get out.
     
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    I think celebrating Cinco De Mayo in this country is disruptive.

    I suppose if I was an administrator, I could forbid a group of people from wearing anything red on St. Patty's day too?

    It sounds so ridiculous when applied to a non politically charged race. Doesnt it?
     
  20. Steve N

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    So flipping this around, if American students were upset that Mexicans were celebrating a Mexican holiday in their American school the principal would stop the Mexican kids from celebrating it in order to prevent a powder keg from exploding? I think not. The American kids would be called into the auditorium and told to be tolerant, something not expected from Mexicans.
     
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    We can put an American flag on the Moon but not on an American student.

    Nah, the American flag means nothing if it offends a foreigner.

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  22. btthegreat

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    You can't imagine how little I care if he would be 'consistent' or not on an issue like this, I do care that he make an effort stop major episodes of violence and trouble. This is not a flag burning, he is endorsing here. Its some shirts that he wants covered up or turned inside out. The American flag outside the school building, went up on schedule on Cinco de Mayo. He's not making some anti-American statement. He's trying to run his school without major trouble
     
  23. After Hours

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    LOL, you don't get out much do you?

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    The students don't seem to be wearing T-shirts with American flags on it on Saint Patricks day. Why is that?
     
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    There's no green in the American flag.......pretty simple
     
  25. Steve N

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    Lol, from a guy from the party of protests. I'm sure you disapprove of other protests at schools and colleges nationwide. How did you feel about the Occupy Wall Street movement? The NY protests to kill cops? And so on? Your form of protest is free speech which must be tolerated, and anything you disagree with is a potential powder keg which must be shut down.
     

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