Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: July 23, 2025, 2:41 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
#43
RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
(October 25, 2017 at 2:57 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
(October 25, 2017 at 2:34 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Let's face it. It's not disrespectful even if you're not protesting.

I think it is disrespectful if you are not protesting for a particular cause. Not standing up for no other reason than just because you "can't be bothered" is disrespectful. So many people have died for this country and risked their lives for it. Meanwhile someone else can't even be bothered to stand up for 2 minutes? I see that as disrespectdul to those people and especially to those people's families who have to deal with the fear for, and absense/loss of, their loved ones.

As long as there are two particular words in the pledge (which were added in the McCarthy era), I'll never, and I've told my kids not to if that's their choice, stand for a pledge that requires me to acknowledge any gawd. Separation of church and state means exactly that.

Besides, the pledge was intended to be voluntary.

(October 25, 2017 at 4:47 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: It's really just the can't be bothered attitude. If it's a form of protest/disagreement or even a religious thing, I wouldn't take issue with it.

I can't imagine someone being too lazy to stand for the pledge but then wanting to join the military, but if someone did I'd find it disrespectful just the same. Even if they had their veteran family's support or w/e. Which would also be strange bc I can't imagine anyone supporting their kid being lazy about something.
(emphasis is mine))

I knew guys in the Army who would run (yes, run) to get inside before reveille or retreat so they wouldn't have to stand and salute. In all cases I knew of, it was pure "can't be bothered" that drove them.
Thief and assassin for hire. Member in good standing of the Rogues Guild.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him - by Ravenshire - October 25, 2017 at 8:56 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  45 gets 34... Ravenshire 56 6275 June 6, 2024 at 8:41 am
Last Post: Angrboda
  Palestinian Man’s Lawyers Say Israeli Police Marked Him With Star of David WinterHold 8 1472 August 23, 2023 at 6:12 pm
Last Post: LinuxGal
  SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups HappySkeptic 10 1485 June 15, 2022 at 2:07 pm
Last Post: Thumpalumpacus
  All the god-ding in the world couldn't fix him arewethereyet 17 2249 May 12, 2021 at 8:52 pm
Last Post: Rev. Rye
  Misinformation drops dramatically after Trump gets banned from Twitter TaraJo 22 3427 January 20, 2021 at 9:59 am
Last Post: Gawdzilla Sama
  I didn’t do it out of hate. ... I did it out of love. brewer 2 753 January 10, 2021 at 10:30 am
Last Post: Divinity
  UK Police officer gets stuck in handcuffs in training zebo-the-fat 10 1921 August 19, 2020 at 4:57 pm
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  Border Control Gets Bipartisan Support onlinebiker 20 2661 August 6, 2020 at 11:05 pm
Last Post: The Architect Of Fate
  West Virginia, WH dumbass, send him home. Brian37 42 5716 March 18, 2020 at 3:43 pm
Last Post: LastPoet
  MAGA "Tough Guy " Gets His Clock Cleaned By Immigrant In The UFC The Architect Of Fate 28 4536 December 19, 2019 at 5:28 pm
Last Post: The Architect Of Fate



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)