re: High school student suspended for wearing Confederate flag attire

All schools, public and private, should require school uniforms. Schools are for education, not political statements.

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All schools, public and private, should require school uniforms. Schools are for education, not political statements.

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They pretty much all do here. I can't think of any that don't actually. We didn't wear them when I was in school though.

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Maybe it's prime for snowflakes to deal with dissenting opinions and not freak out because of a symbol. High school is a good place to start.

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I love this statement. This website is the beacon of people getting bent out shape about shite they don't agree with, but if you don't like their opinion you're a snowflake

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If they had worn Rainbow Flags people would be slobbering and calling them brave.

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Or a Mexican or Honduran flag. Libs love so-called immigrants displaying their loyalty to 3rd world shitholes.

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I'm triggered because I disagree with you? 

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You justified the banning of the Confederate Flag at high schools because it may offend someone. If that's the standard to be used, any item of expression can be censored, since being offended is a wholly subjective matter.

I'm offended by Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger's labor practices, ban their clothes! The Cowboys signed Greg Hardy the abuser! Ban their jerseys! College football is slavery! No team logos! Next thing you know American high schools resemble Raymond Cocteau's dystopia in Demolition Man.

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You justified the banning of the Confederate Flag at high schools because it may offend someone. If that's the standard to be used, any item of expression can be censored, since being offended is a wholly subjective matter.

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So where is the line drawn?

Should kids be able to tell their teacher to "frick off" in class because he is expressing himself?

ETA: It goes both ways, you say if we ban the confederate flag, then what else can be banned? Well my question is if we allow the confederate flag, then what else can be allowed? There is a happy medium somewhere.

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A shirt, in and of itself, is an inanimate object and not disruptive. The image or symbol on a shirt didn't tell a teacher to frick off, the student did.

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So can a kid say "frick" in class as long as he's not being disruptive?

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I think you either ban it all or allow it all.

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That's hella narrow-minded. There has to be degrees involved.

I don't get how people still don't get it about the flag. If I wore it, I'd expect black people to be pissed and want to fight me. They take it as a sign of aggression. So why would you try to incite people like this? They are never going to see it as anything other than a flag of hate. It just seems unnecessary..

I don't see how you can consistently apply these policies though. I used the FCA example earlier because I was in the 8th grade when Columbine happened. Marilyn Manson caught a lot of shite for that and my high school wanted to ban the goth kids (there weren't many) from wearing his shirts. There was a lot of tension between them and the rednecks who thought they and anybody like them were freaks.

My point is, were the rednecks offended by Marilyn Manson clothing? Yes. Was there a justification? One could argue that the goth lifestyle and Manson's lyrics celebrated perverse sadism and masochism, which could negatively impact an impressionable teenager.

Using the same standard that you used for banning the Confederate Flag, the Marilyn Manson shirts would be banned. I don't think the reaction from liberals would be quite the same as it would for banning an item they dislike. That's the problem though, almost no one is objective enough to enforce these kinds of policies.