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struggle4progress

(118,288 posts) Thu Sep 24, 2015, 03:49 AM Sep 2015

Teen Upset With High School After Being Forced To Cover Confederate Flag Patch (PA)

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Confederate flag has been a source of controversy and debate across the country lately, and now it’s become an issue in a local school district where a teen says he’s been told he’s no longer allowed to display the symbol on his clothing.

Zachary Klaus, 16, a junior at North Allegheny High School, says he was called into an assistant principal’s office this week.
Klaus says he was told there that he could no longer have a Confederate flag patch displayed on his vest, because the symbol “offended someone.”

So, Klaus pinned a small white cloth over the flag, with the words “Censored by N.A. <North Allegheny>.”

Klaus told KDKA-TV’S Ralph Iannotti Wednesday night, “They said I couldn’t have the rebel flag cause it offended someone, and I think that’s not fair, because people wear other offensive symbols, like the upside down cross and weed symbols” ...

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/09/23/north-allegheny-high-school-student-confederate-flag/

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Teen Upset With High School After Being Forced To Cover Confederate Flag Patch (PA) (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP

Too effing bad. SheilaT Sep 2015 #1

What are the chances the kid knows what the flag stands for? Zero. Vinca Sep 2015 #2

?? Of course he knows what it stands for. GreatGazoo Sep 2015 #3

There was a poll taken recently of people who supported it and the vast majority didn't have a clue. Vinca Sep 2015 #5

In the kid's answer he seems to admit it is offensive: "people wear other offensive symbols" GreatGazoo Sep 2015 #7

It shoud be removed as would be the ISIL black standard Bad Thoughts Sep 2015 #4

An upside-down cross is ridiculously rare and found mostly among metal culture. HughBeaumont Sep 2015 #6

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

1. Too effing bad.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 05:37 AM

Sep 2015

The kid needs to understand exactly what the flag stands for, and exactly why it's inappropriate.

Vinca

(50,273 posts)

2. What are the chances the kid knows what the flag stands for? Zero.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:42 AM

Sep 2015

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)

3. ?? Of course he knows what it stands for.

Reply to Vinca (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:43 AM

Sep 2015

Vinca

(50,273 posts)

5. There was a poll taken recently of people who supported it and the vast majority didn't have a clue.

Reply to GreatGazoo (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:31 AM

Sep 2015

They associate it with things such as NASCAR drivers and the Dukes of Hazzard.

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)

7. In the kid's answer he seems to admit it is offensive: "people wear other offensive symbols"

Reply to Vinca (Reply #5)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 01:27 PM

Sep 2015

also a poll found that only 33% saw the confed flag as "a symbol of southern pride". That leaves 67% to who saw it as something else. Polls found big support for the removal from government buildings:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/confederate-flag-poll_n_7665472.html

Bad Thoughts

(2,524 posts)

4. It shoud be removed as would be the ISIL black standard

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 07:56 AM

Sep 2015

Both are flags of terrorism.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)

6. An upside-down cross is ridiculously rare and found mostly among metal culture.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 10:04 AM

Sep 2015

A pot leaf represents a plant, about as annoying as a stubbed toe.

The Dixie Swastika means white supremacy. No, really, that's what the Confederacy was based on. These fuckers were traitors who fought to own people. Ohio and Pennsylvania lost thousands upon thousands of soldiers fighting traitors.

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