Court rules US schools can ban US flag shirts on cinco de mayo

[RoadVirus]

If stupid white racists don't like other cultures then they should move out of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, the Carolinas, Montana, or anywhere else that has a "foreign" name.

Blah blah blah white racists blah blah blah

Here we go! It's now racist to be patriotic!

 

[RoadVirus]

As for the whole "go back to where you came from" bullshit racist argument, you can jump ship back to England or wherever the **** you came from. It works both ways.

Fine. We "White Racists" will go back to Europe....and take our engineering, farming and scientific knowhow with us. Then we'll see how long Blacks, Hispanics, Indians and Asians will last without us.

 

[RoadVirus]

This is HORRIBLE
Schools banning patriotic students from showing the flag

In reality, the students wore their flag shirts just to provoke Mexican students and say....**** you and your holiday. Not exactly patriotic

The school banned the shirts not because they supported the Mexican holiday over the US Flag but because the shirts were causing fights between students

The school was seeking to defuse a potentially violent situation

Burning one would be a-ok in your book too, as long as it avoids violence.......

If Mexican students are offended by our flag on ANY day, maybe they should go somewhere else?.........

The school thought it was the kids wearing the flag shirts that were creating the problem. The court agreed with them

Left-wing Judges agreed with Left-Wing School admins...what a shocker!

 

[HenryBHough]

Surely they'd have no trouble at all if the flag were the new American Obamaflag?

Click on the flag to appreciate more fully.

 

[rightwinger]

The court sided with a group that were making threats. Incorrect ruling and will be overturned.

Evidently not

The school proved in court that it was an appropriate response to the situation

OTOH, you may be right since govt schools are little indoctrination camps that do not promote free speech anymore.

OTOH many schools are just trying to stop kids from killing eachother

 

[thereisnospoon]

This is HORRIBLE
Schools banning patriotic students from showing the flag

In reality, the students wore their flag shirts just to provoke Mexican students and say....**** you and your holiday. Not exactly patriotic

The school banned the shirts not because they supported the Mexican holiday over the US Flag but because the shirts were causing fights between students

The school was seeking to defuse a potentially violent situation

Burning one would be a-ok in your book too, as long as it avoids violence.......

If Mexican students are offended by our flag on ANY day, maybe they should go somewhere else?.........

The school thought it was the kids wearing the flag shirts that were creating the problem. The court agreed with them

Yeah...Displaying the American flag is now a "problem"..
Get your straw out of the sewer water.
Be warned. This is exactly the kind of radical liberalism that creates backlash against your ideology.
You are cooking your own goose here. Don't believe me? Not heeding the warning? Keep it up and you will find yourself powerless.
We're only going to take so much of your lefty bullshit.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Ummmm...actually, I would

When my kids went to school there were strict rules on what you could wear on a t-shirt. If you wore anything that was controversial you were told to take it off or turn it inside out

Schools have an obligation to keep the peace

Representations of the American flag are "controversial" - in AMERICA?


Just how far down the ******* rabbit hole do you far-left nuts intend to go?

You are correct. It shouldn't be that way

But in this school it was. Kids were not wearing flag shirts out of patriotism but to provoke an incident with other students. In this case (not ALL schools) the principal thought that it was necessary to ban them in the interests of safety......the court agreed

The ruling is wrong on so many levels.
The parents of those students should be finding a law firm that tests these cases and try to run this through the federal courts.
If anything, they can bury the school district for their foolish attempt to silence American kids in deference to those celebrating an unfriendly to the USA holiday.

 

[thereisnospoon]

and here's the typical liberal, making it clear that if you are proud to be an American, you're a racist.

go **** yourself in traffic

Like the white assholes deliberately wearing American flag paraphernalia on Cinco de Mayo aren't trying to be assholes, and the Mexicans are letting them know it. It would be the same if a KKK member showed up at an NAACP rally in full sheets. The black people would let them know that they're assholes.

Conservatives are assholes who shit all over everything. Look at all of your failed wars.

This is America asshole, you should be allowed to wear an American flag t shirt everyday with no problem. If these Mexicans are so offended by the American flag maybe they need to get the **** out.

, KNB is about to get a time out.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Like the white assholes deliberately wearing American flag paraphernalia on Cinco de Mayo aren't trying to be assholes, and the Mexicans are letting them know it. It would be the same if a KKK member showed up at an NAACP rally in full sheets. The black people would let them know that they're assholes.

Conservatives are assholes who shit all over everything. Look at all of your failed wars.

Sad little bigot aren't you?

The Hispanics can jump the fence back home if they don't like it....**** them.

Yeah, I'm a bigot for telling racist assholes to **** themselves. As for the whole "go back to where you came from" bullshit racist argument, you can jump ship back to England or wherever the **** you came from. It works both ways.

Since when is displaying the US flag a racist act?
While we're at it, those fence jumpers are here in violation of US immigration law.
It is YOU who are the racist.
Keep it up. You'll find yourself getting kicked out of here.
Your blatant racism is not tolerated.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Like the white assholes deliberately wearing American flag paraphernalia on Cinco de Mayo aren't trying to be assholes, and the Mexicans are letting them know it. It would be the same if a KKK member showed up at an NAACP rally in full sheets. The black people would let them know that they're assholes.

Conservatives are assholes who shit all over everything. Look at all of your failed wars.

Wearing an American flag shirt on Cinco de Mayo is free speech, whether it was intended to offend or not. So is showing up to an NAACP rally in white sheets. You are welcome to call people assholes for doing it. That's protected under free speech as well. But banning it outright is where the line should be drawn. This ruling is bullshit.

I'm not defending the ruling. I'm saying that Conservative assholes want to keep pushing people and pushing people and pushing people and then scream like little whiny bitches when anyone pushes back.

Since when is displaying the US Flag a conservative act?

 

[thereisnospoon]

Like the white assholes deliberately wearing American flag paraphernalia on Cinco de Mayo aren't trying to be assholes, and the Mexicans are letting them know it. It would be the same if a KKK member showed up at an NAACP rally in full sheets. The black people would let them know that they're assholes.

Conservatives are assholes who shit all over everything. Look at all of your failed wars.

Go **** step on a land mine beaner lover.

Ah, the good "Christian" values raise their ugly head.

Christian with a pointy white head.

Go chase parked cars. You circus animal.

 

[thereisnospoon]

where was it banned?

It wasn't....tho my father got mad at me when I bought one....it was just considered disrespectful. Interesting how times change.

Actually......
U.S. Code › Title 4 › Chapter 1 › § 8
4 U.S. Code § 8 - Respect for flag

(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker’s desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.


Some good info

There are paragraphs of US Flag protocol.
For example, the Flag is never to be flown after sundown unless illuminated.
It is never to touch the ground. If so, it should be cleaned if soiled.
It is never to be displayed in an inferior position to State or other symbolic flags. In other words other than beside international flags, it should always be the highest Flag when other flags are present.
I believe the US Flag when displayed to an audience with other flags, the US FLag should be farthest to the right. That is the Flag's right or viewers Left.
Found this .Scroll to bottom..
Flag Rules and Regulations

 

[rightwinger]

Representations of the American flag are "controversial" - in AMERICA?


Just how far down the ******* rabbit hole do you far-left nuts intend to go?

You are correct. It shouldn't be that way

But in this school it was. Kids were not wearing flag shirts out of patriotism but to provoke an incident with other students. In this case (not ALL schools) the principal thought that it was necessary to ban them in the interests of safety......the court agreed

The ruling is wrong on so many levels.
The parents of those students should be finding a law firm that tests these cases and try to run this through the federal courts.
If anything, they can bury the school district for their foolish attempt to silence American kids in deference to those celebrating an unfriendly to the USA holiday.

They can try but they will lose

The courts sided on the side of safety over free speech

 

[thereisnospoon]

So does this mean I get to threaten Puerto Ricans that display their flag on July 4th?

yes, yes it does.

Shit for brains.

Puerto Rico is the United States.

PR is a Territory with Commonwealth Status.
PR has no US House members or US Senators.
Puerto Rico is so United States that it fields an independent Olympic team.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

There are so many problems with this I almost don't know where to begin.

You could begin by reading and comprehending the actual ruling:

We analyze the students’ claims 4 under the well- recognized framework of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969). 5 Under Tinker, students may "express [their] opinions, even on controversial subjects . . . if [they] do[] so without materially and substantially interfering] with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school and without colliding with the rights of others." Id. at 513 (final alteration in original) (internal quotation marks omitted). To "justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion," school officials "must be able to show that [their] action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint." Id. at 509.

9 That said, "conduct by the student, in class or out of it, which for any reason— whether it stems from time, place, or type of behavior—materially disrupts classwork or involves substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others is, of course, not immunized by the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech." Id. at 513. Under Tinker, schools may prohibit speech that "might reasonably [lead] school authorities to forecast substantial disruption of or material interference with school activities," or that constitutes an "actual or nascent [interference] with the schools’ work or . . . collision with the rights of other students to be secure and to be let alone."

https://casetext.com/case/dariano-v-morgan-hill-unified-school-district

The school’s policy is consequently appropriate, Constitutional, and in no way ‘violates’ the free speech rights of students; the school’s action “was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint." The focus of the policy was to safeguard the safety of students, not disadvantage those who sought free expression by displaying the American flag.

"The 9th Circuit upheld the rights of Mexican students celebrating a holiday of another country over U.S. student proudly supporting this country," Becker said.

Nonsense and demagoguery, the court did no such thing.

Again, per Tinker, schools are at liberty to preempt speech if the primary focus of the act seeks to safeguard the welfare of students and promote a positive learning environment, where any inadvertent burden that might be placed on free expression does not constitute a First Amendment violation.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Well… you only don't know that if YOU'RE TOTALLY ******* STUPID!!

Oh, did you take a mind-reading course during your time in the reeducation camps?

Not necessary to spot a racist little pissant who thinks he's being cute with a famous black person for an avatar. Just like the sweethearts who wear American Flag shirts to provoke trouble on Cinco De Mayo.

Your shit stinks to high heaven.

Take care in your tone.

 

[Rozman]

Do we have a trend here?
Michele Obama's comment over a flag folding ceremony.
Now a soldier saying **** that shit when it's time to salute the flag at the end of the day.
Schools flying the flag of Mexico but when a student shows up with an American flag they get suspended.

And this is acceptable?

 

[thereisnospoon]

just hilarious; the most intolerant people in America are left-wing nutjobs; and of course they are the biggest hypocritical losers whining about others

You turds take getting ***** slapped in an online forum much to hard.

You regress to "am not, you are…" childishness.

Grow up. Act like a big girl and stop crying.

You cannot be more incorrect.
It is YOU who are the troublemaker.
You have stepped out for the Mexican kids out of hatred for this country.
Why do you live here?
Move to Mexico if you love it so much.

 

[thereisnospoon]

OH; ANOTHER LWNJ making petty insults about pointy hats and sheets. but those guys were all Democrats

oh by the way leftard; Cinco de Mayo was first celebrated as a Mexican version of celecrating freedom during the American Civil War. in other parts of Mexico it commemorates the Mexican Army's victory over FRENCH FORCES in the Battle of Puebla
there is NO REASON ANY MEXICAN-AMERICAN or Mexican here needs to feel insulted over an American wearing the flag of NOT ONLY THE AMERICANS' COUNTRY BUT THE MEXICANS WHO ARE NOW LIVING HERE AND GOING TO SCHOOL HERE AS WELL.

YOU LEFT-WING NUTJOBS ARE MENTAL CASES

that is why your whole world is falling apart

Most of those Mexican kids do not know clue one of the meaning of May 5th.
They probably think it is some kind of celebration of the day Mexico gets back California.
Hey, they can have it RIGHT ******* NOW..