Gay Pride Flag vs. Confederate Flag

[SassyIrishLass]

That's why it all should have been left alone, it was a matter of respect for different beliefs and opinions about symbols.

The left has gone full retard and the... rude side of the right is unleashed to turn their own arguments upon them. Frankly some of us are so sick of it we're not even going to hold them back.

No more respect, no more politely ignoring, no more tolerance from either side and the whole fucking shebang will be whitewashed and boring lest anyone be offended. Like darkness saps the color from a beautiful painting, these idiots place binders on the vibrant melting pot culture of America.

Some beliefs are not worthy of respect.

Spoken by a true advocate of inclusion and diversity.

You make a good point, the LBGT crowd preaches diversity and inclusion and are some of the most closeminded bigots out there. It's our way or the highway

 

[Political Junky]

Inclusive?

I see a bar each for:
Indians
Trump
Orientals
Martians
Smurfs
and

Nope, don't know anyone purple

no lines for Black or White.

Colors of the rainbow, idiot.

 

[Compost]

That's why it all should have been left alone, it was a matter of respect for different beliefs and opinions about symbols.

The left has gone full retard and the... rude side of the right is unleashed to turn their own arguments upon them. Frankly some of us are so sick of it we're not even going to hold them back.

No more respect, no more politely ignoring, no more tolerance from either side and the whole fucking shebang will be whitewashed and boring lest anyone be offended. Like darkness saps the color from a beautiful painting, these idiots place binders on the vibrant melting pot culture of America.

Some beliefs are not worthy of respect.

Spoken by a true advocate of inclusion and diversity.

You make a good point, the LBGT crowd preaches diversity and inclusion and are some of the most closeminded bigots out there. It's our way or the highway

Exactly.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

There is no comparison. One flag celebrates diversity and inclusion. The other is representative of slave states.
The flag is also promoting a school club that promotes diversity. This is a good thing. If I had Gay kids I would be really pleased that the school is looking out for their welfare.

Your wrong.
You disagree because you are unable to get beyond the fact you agree with the flag being there, and flat out do not care about people who are offended by it.

The flag is there for a reason - to promote a school club that promotes diversity.

 

[Auld Phart]

Inclusive?

I see a bar each for:
Indians
Trump
Orientals
Martians
Smurfs
and

Nope, don't know anyone purple

no lines for Black or White.

Colors of the rainbow, idiot.

duh

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Confederate flag represents a cause of oppression, the rainbow flag represents unity of all....Yeah, no difference in meaning..All you poor saps getting pissed over a flag should put more focus on weed extraction and bug fumigation in yer life..

I don't think anyone is saying the flags are the same, what they are saying is the situation is the same.
You have a flag that offends a large number of people, you have another flag that offends a large number of people.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

This is the petition. It is clear that the author did not spend much time in the classroom. What a clusterfuck.

"Unideal" - lol

Petition from the Students and Parents of Auburn High Regarding the Flying of the Pride Flag on School Grounds
Dear Dr. Pignato,
The following signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag flown in Mrs. Yeager’s classroom be removed as we strongly feel that it creates a hostile and provocative learning environment for students not comfortable to openly supporting the LGBTQ+ community in a public school where students come from diverse political and religious backgrounds. Furthermore, we believe it is unprofessional and distracting for a teacher to be so openly displaying their political views in an unbiased and socially neutral public setting. While the signers of this petition do not feel it is an issue for Mrs. Yeager to support the LGBTQ+ community, we do feel it creates a less than ideal learning environment when a teacher subjects their students to their personal political views in a public school system.
The signers of this petition feel that the flying of the Pride Flag can create a hostile and uncomfortable learning environment for students who come from families that do not support the LGBTQ+ community. Auburn City Schools clearly promotes quality of education and empowerment of the individual to reach his or her full potential. However, subjecting or explicitly exposing students from diverse political backgrounds to political views differing from theirs can make students uncomfortable and distract them from learning the material assigned to them, preventing them from reaching their full potential.
In addition, we would argue that it is unprofessional for a teacher to so openly express and subject students to his or her personal political views. Seeing as how it is Auburn City Schools mission to educate students to their furthest potential, we feel like an expression of such polarizing views is a detriment to the overall learning environment of that class as it alienates students with differing political viewpoints. We also feel it is inappropriate for a public school system to allow teachers to explicitly express clearly biased political viewpoints in a supposedly unbiased and politically neutral school system. We feel that an expression of these views only drives a wedge between students with differing view points and can alienate students with unpopular political and/or religious views from the popular majority in the class, further deteriorating the classroom and learning environment.
In closing, the signers of this petition would like for you to consider the uproar and chaos that would ensue were a teacher to hang for example a Confederate, Christian, or Heterosexual Flag in their classroom. There would likely be protests, emails from teachers, and threatening of lawsuits from parents with differing viewpoints. As such, one does not see teachers hanging these flags in classrooms due to the same argument that it is unprofessional and can create a hostile and unideal learning environment. Taking this and our before mentioned reasons into consideration, the signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag be removed from Auburn High School in order to preserve a welcoming, beneficial, and unbiased learning environment for students from all political backgrounds attending Auburn High School.

 

[Auld Phart]

There is no comparison. One flag celebrates diversity and inclusion. The other is representative of slave states.
The flag is also promoting a school club that promotes diversity. This is a good thing. If I had Gay kids I would be really pleased that the school is looking out for their welfare.

Your wrong.
You disagree because you are unable to get beyond the fact you agree with the flag being there, and flat out do not care about people who are offended by it.

The flag is there for a reason - to promote a school club that promotes diversity.

Then it belongs in whatever room the club holds it's meetings.

Would you be ok with the stars and bars in a room set aside for sons of the confederacy?

 

[EverCurious]

Yes, diversity... Like the flag that came to represent southern pride and culture to so many people. The left shuts it down because they /CHOSE/ to see it as bad, not because it was bad. The decision was based entirely on /personal/ opinion and belief. That throws open the door to personal opinion and belief that the LGBT flag is offensive as well.

This is what happens.

 

[Auld Phart]

This is the petition. It is clear that the author did not spend much time in the classroom. What a clusterfuck.

"Unideal" - lol

Petition from the Students and Parents of Auburn High Regarding the Flying of the Pride Flag on School Grounds
Dear Dr. Pignato,
The following signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag flown in Mrs. Yeager’s classroom be removed as we strongly feel that it creates a hostile and provocative learning environment for students not comfortable to openly supporting the LGBTQ+ community in a public school where students come from diverse political and religious backgrounds. Furthermore, we believe it is unprofessional and distracting for a teacher to be so openly displaying their political views in an unbiased and socially neutral public setting. While the signers of this petition do not feel it is an issue for Mrs. Yeager to support the LGBTQ+ community, we do feel it creates a less than ideal learning environment when a teacher subjects their students to their personal political views in a public school system.
The signers of this petition feel that the flying of the Pride Flag can create a hostile and uncomfortable learning environment for students who come from families that do not support the LGBTQ+ community. Auburn City Schools clearly promotes quality of education and empowerment of the individual to reach his or her full potential. However, subjecting or explicitly exposing students from diverse political backgrounds to political views differing from theirs can make students uncomfortable and distract them from learning the material assigned to them, preventing them from reaching their full potential.
In addition, we would argue that it is unprofessional for a teacher to so openly express and subject students to his or her personal political views. Seeing as how it is Auburn City Schools mission to educate students to their furthest potential, we feel like an expression of such polarizing views is a detriment to the overall learning environment of that class as it alienates students with differing political viewpoints. We also feel it is inappropriate for a public school system to allow teachers to explicitly express clearly biased political viewpoints in a supposedly unbiased and politically neutral school system. We feel that an expression of these views only drives a wedge between students with differing view points and can alienate students with unpopular political and/or religious views from the popular majority in the class, further deteriorating the classroom and learning environment.
In closing, the signers of this petition would like for you to consider the uproar and chaos that would ensue were a teacher to hang for example a Confederate, Christian, or Heterosexual Flag in their classroom. There would likely be protests, emails from teachers, and threatening of lawsuits from parents with differing viewpoints. As such, one does not see teachers hanging these flags in classrooms due to the same argument that it is unprofessional and can create a hostile and unideal learning environment. Taking this and our before mentioned reasons into consideration, the signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag be removed from Auburn High School in order to preserve a welcoming, beneficial, and unbiased learning environment for students from all political backgrounds attending Auburn High School.

Sounds good to me

 

[Moonglow]

Confederate flag represents a cause of oppression, the rainbow flag represents unity of all....Yeah, no difference in meaning..All you poor saps getting pissed over a flag should put more focus on weed extraction and bug fumigation in yer life..

I don't think anyone is saying the flags are the same, what they are saying is the situation is the same.
You have a flag that offends a large number of people, you have another flag that offends a large number of people.

Frankly I couldn't give a damn about a flag or what people think of it..

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Confederate flag represents a cause of oppression, the rainbow flag represents unity of all....Yeah, no difference in meaning..All you poor saps getting pissed over a flag should put more focus on weed extraction and bug fumigation in yer life..

I don't think anyone is saying the flags are the same, what they are saying is the situation is the same.
You have a flag that offends a large number of people, you have another flag that offends a large number of people.

Frankly I couldn't give a damn about a flag or what people think of it..

Neither do I. But if the left can faux outrage, so can the right.

 

[Moonglow]

Yes, diversity... Like the flag that came to represent southern pride and culture to so many people. The left shuts it down because they /CHOSE/ to see it as bad, not because it was bad. The decision was based entirely on /personal/ opinion and belief. That throws open the door to personal opinion and belief that the LGBT flag is offensive as well.

This is what happens.

The blacks and other minorities sure didn't get that Southern pride shit, it wa for white folks only...."And you better not be no Yankee", as I heard it for many years..

 

[Moonglow]

Confederate flag represents a cause of oppression, the rainbow flag represents unity of all....Yeah, no difference in meaning..All you poor saps getting pissed over a flag should put more focus on weed extraction and bug fumigation in yer life..

I don't think anyone is saying the flags are the same, what they are saying is the situation is the same.
You have a flag that offends a large number of people, you have another flag that offends a large number of people.

Frankly I couldn't give a damn about a flag or what people think of it..

Neither do I. But if the left can faux outrage, so can the right.

They can also stick a tube of butter up their ass and call it a casserole for all I care with their knees bent, running around advancing behavior...Silly English kn-ighits..

 

[Auld Phart]

Yes, diversity... Like the flag that came to represent southern pride and culture to so many people. The left shuts it down because they /CHOSE/ to see it as bad, not because it was bad. The decision was based entirely on /personal/ opinion and belief. That throws open the door to personal opinion and belief that the LGBT flag is offensive as well.

This is what happens.

The blacks and other minorities sure didn't get that Southern pride shit, it wa for white folks only...."And you better not be no Yankee", as I heard it for many years..

it wa for white folks only

it was?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

There is no comparison. One flag celebrates diversity and inclusion. The other is representative of slave states.
The flag is also promoting a school club that promotes diversity. This is a good thing. If I had Gay kids I would be really pleased that the school is looking out for their welfare.

Your wrong.
You disagree because you are unable to get beyond the fact you agree with the flag being there, and flat out do not care about people who are offended by it.

The flag is there for a reason - to promote a school club that promotes diversity.

Then they can put the flag up when they meet.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

This is the petition. It is clear that the author did not spend much time in the classroom. What a clusterfuck.

"Unideal" - lol

Petition from the Students and Parents of Auburn High Regarding the Flying of the Pride Flag on School Grounds
Dear Dr. Pignato,
The following signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag flown in Mrs. Yeager’s classroom be removed as we strongly feel that it creates a hostile and provocative learning environment for students not comfortable to openly supporting the LGBTQ+ community in a public school where students come from diverse political and religious backgrounds. Furthermore, we believe it is unprofessional and distracting for a teacher to be so openly displaying their political views in an unbiased and socially neutral public setting. While the signers of this petition do not feel it is an issue for Mrs. Yeager to support the LGBTQ+ community, we do feel it creates a less than ideal learning environment when a teacher subjects their students to their personal political views in a public school system.
The signers of this petition feel that the flying of the Pride Flag can create a hostile and uncomfortable learning environment for students who come from families that do not support the LGBTQ+ community. Auburn City Schools clearly promotes quality of education and empowerment of the individual to reach his or her full potential. However, subjecting or explicitly exposing students from diverse political backgrounds to political views differing from theirs can make students uncomfortable and distract them from learning the material assigned to them, preventing them from reaching their full potential.
In addition, we would argue that it is unprofessional for a teacher to so openly express and subject students to his or her personal political views. Seeing as how it is Auburn City Schools mission to educate students to their furthest potential, we feel like an expression of such polarizing views is a detriment to the overall learning environment of that class as it alienates students with differing political viewpoints. We also feel it is inappropriate for a public school system to allow teachers to explicitly express clearly biased political viewpoints in a supposedly unbiased and politically neutral school system. We feel that an expression of these views only drives a wedge between students with differing view points and can alienate students with unpopular political and/or religious views from the popular majority in the class, further deteriorating the classroom and learning environment.
In closing, the signers of this petition would like for you to consider the uproar and chaos that would ensue were a teacher to hang for example a Confederate, Christian, or Heterosexual Flag in their classroom. There would likely be protests, emails from teachers, and threatening of lawsuits from parents with differing viewpoints. As such, one does not see teachers hanging these flags in classrooms due to the same argument that it is unprofessional and can create a hostile and unideal learning environment. Taking this and our before mentioned reasons into consideration, the signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag be removed from Auburn High School in order to preserve a welcoming, beneficial, and unbiased learning environment for students from all political backgrounds attending Auburn High School.

Sounds good to me

So you dont see it as "unideal" in any way ?

 

[Auld Phart]

This is the petition. It is clear that the author did not spend much time in the classroom. What a clusterfuck.

"Unideal" - lol

Petition from the Students and Parents of Auburn High Regarding the Flying of the Pride Flag on School Grounds
Dear Dr. Pignato,
The following signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag flown in Mrs. Yeager’s classroom be removed as we strongly feel that it creates a hostile and provocative learning environment for students not comfortable to openly supporting the LGBTQ+ community in a public school where students come from diverse political and religious backgrounds. Furthermore, we believe it is unprofessional and distracting for a teacher to be so openly displaying their political views in an unbiased and socially neutral public setting. While the signers of this petition do not feel it is an issue for Mrs. Yeager to support the LGBTQ+ community, we do feel it creates a less than ideal learning environment when a teacher subjects their students to their personal political views in a public school system.
The signers of this petition feel that the flying of the Pride Flag can create a hostile and uncomfortable learning environment for students who come from families that do not support the LGBTQ+ community. Auburn City Schools clearly promotes quality of education and empowerment of the individual to reach his or her full potential. However, subjecting or explicitly exposing students from diverse political backgrounds to political views differing from theirs can make students uncomfortable and distract them from learning the material assigned to them, preventing them from reaching their full potential.
In addition, we would argue that it is unprofessional for a teacher to so openly express and subject students to his or her personal political views. Seeing as how it is Auburn City Schools mission to educate students to their furthest potential, we feel like an expression of such polarizing views is a detriment to the overall learning environment of that class as it alienates students with differing political viewpoints. We also feel it is inappropriate for a public school system to allow teachers to explicitly express clearly biased political viewpoints in a supposedly unbiased and politically neutral school system. We feel that an expression of these views only drives a wedge between students with differing view points and can alienate students with unpopular political and/or religious views from the popular majority in the class, further deteriorating the classroom and learning environment.
In closing, the signers of this petition would like for you to consider the uproar and chaos that would ensue were a teacher to hang for example a Confederate, Christian, or Heterosexual Flag in their classroom. There would likely be protests, emails from teachers, and threatening of lawsuits from parents with differing viewpoints. As such, one does not see teachers hanging these flags in classrooms due to the same argument that it is unprofessional and can create a hostile and unideal learning environment. Taking this and our before mentioned reasons into consideration, the signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag be removed from Auburn High School in order to preserve a welcoming, beneficial, and unbiased learning environment for students from all political backgrounds attending Auburn High School.

Sounds good to me

So you dont see it as "unideal" in any way ?

NO

It's one group pushing their agenda on another.

 

[EverCurious]

Yes, diversity... Like the flag that came to represent southern pride and culture to so many people. The left shuts it down because they /CHOSE/ to see it as bad, not because it was bad. The decision was based entirely on /personal/ opinion and belief. That throws open the door to personal opinion and belief that the LGBT flag is offensive as well.

This is what happens.

The blacks and other minorities sure didn't get that Southern pride shit, it wa for white folks only...."And you better not be no Yankee", as I heard it for many years..

And religious folks didn't get that gay pride shit, it was for gay folks only... Surely you see how this works, right?

Again, that is why it should have been left alone, it was about mutual respect for different opinions and beliefs. This is a case of play stupid games, win stupid prizes...

 

[Political Junky]

Yes, diversity... Like the flag that came to represent southern pride and culture to so many people. The left shuts it down because they /CHOSE/ to see it as bad, not because it was bad. The decision was based entirely on /personal/ opinion and belief. That throws open the door to personal opinion and belief that the LGBT flag is offensive as well.

This is what happens.

That it's used by the KKK and Neo-Nazis is reason enough to not use the confederate flag.