RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
October 26, 2017 at 12:53 am
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2017 at 1:12 am by Wyrd of Gawd.)
That's why school bullies get killed. The bully is cruising to be the next victim.
As usual everything started with one asshole. In the case of the Pledge of Allegiance it was started by a defrocked Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy, who wanted to indoctrinate school kids into socialism with a military tint. This is also the asshole who got Columbus Day as as national holiday. So here we are well over a century later doing what some nut inflicted upon the population to satisfy his own ego.
(October 25, 2017 at 5:09 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I've always felt the pledge was stupid. I mean, think about it:
We're making (whether through actual rules or social coercion) children stand up and recite a pledge of allegiance, on a daily basis.
Why are children making pledges to a form of government?
Why must it be done daily (does it somehow wear off)?
Why are they doing it if it's not actually binding in anyway?
It's okay to actually think about traditions. How they're performed, what their social function actually is, what they actually mean beyond "Well, it's just what we do." Tradition for tradition's sake is vapid.
As usual everything started with one asshole. In the case of the Pledge of Allegiance it was started by a defrocked Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy, who wanted to indoctrinate school kids into socialism with a military tint. This is also the asshole who got Columbus Day as as national holiday. So here we are well over a century later doing what some nut inflicted upon the population to satisfy his own ego.
