RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
October 25, 2017 at 5:21 pm
(October 25, 2017 at 3:45 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(October 25, 2017 at 3:30 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote: I assume you have no problem with Jehovah's Witnesses who don't participate in such exercises. Right?
Like i said, people have the right to stay seated, but that doesn't mean I won't find it disrespectful if their reason for doing so is simply because they can't be bothered, and isn't out of genuine protest for a particular cause. I have no idea what a JW's reason would be, since I don't know anything about them.
My dad served too.
Humans unfortunately live in a world where humans group and fight and compete, yes we DO need a military. But you don't seem to want to face the lessons of patriot shaming and outing people who protest. It is a very dangerous road to vilify protest. The Nazis did that. Kim Jong Un FORCES his population to partake in nationalistic ritual.
Forced ritual an patriot shaming are what the Nazis demanded.
You do not have to like someone sitting down, but it is still a dangerous tactic for sitting politicians at any level to vilify protest.
What 45 is doing is DANGEROUS rhetoric. What he is doing is counter to the First Amendment and as a SITTING POLITICIAN dangerous to the values of a free society.
When you have school students acting out violently to other students over a VOLUNTARY ritual, you are spreading the BAD message of blind loyalty. Blind loyalty are the demands of despots and dictators. The very types of people your husband joined to fight against.
Nobody said you had to like it, but if you want our country to remain free long term, it is rhetoric that our politicians should refrain from using. Political vilification by politicians destroy our concepts of an open society.
