Even my "It was about states' rights" History teacher didn't have a Confederate flag. So, get bent Utah.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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The pride movement should adopt the Swastika and Nazi flag.
Symbols are given meaning and power by those who use them.
I think I speak for the entire community when I say we are not going to do that.
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Well it is Utah… it’s basically handmaids tale there
The only reason to have a nazi flag in a school curriculum, is to learn how to tear it down and rip it in two.
Headline is kind of clickbait
The bill also allows for the flying of a “historic version of a flag ... that is temporarily displayed for educational purposes,”
“There are instances where in classrooms, you have curriculum that is needed to use flags such as World War II, Civil War,” he said. “You may have a Nazi flag. You may have a Confederate flag, and so you are allowed to display those flags… as part of the curriculum, and that is okay.”
The law is still dumb for wanting to ban the pride flag.
I had a teacher put a Confederate flag in our classroom 'for history'. She also spent the entire weeks-long Civil War module drilling into our young minds that the war was about States' rights, not slavery.
This was a popular thing when I was young, and yes there was a debate over what state laws/federal laws wanted, but Kansas has a very interesting history - were runaway slaves left Missouri and headed into Lawrence and people of Missouri took the law into their own hands to hunt down fugitive- runaway slaves, sometimes because they just wanted the bounty or the reward.
In one incident, the sheriff from a city in Missouri was shot at and as a response people from Missouri Road into Lawrence and burnt down most of the big buildings and killed a couple of people and stole several horses. This was known as the border war and it occurred far before 1861. It was all about racism, hatred, and money, and it had absolutely nothing to do with state rights 
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I would just show the kids a picture of the flag in the book and if they don’t understand why some Americans are objecting to the flying of a Nazi flag. Maybe they should read the damn book. 
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“There are instances where in classrooms, you have curriculum that is needed to use flags such as World War II, Civil War,” he said. “You may have a Nazi flag. You may have a Confederate flag, and so you are allowed to display those flags… as part of the curriculum, and that is okay.”
There are no such instances. Students are fully capable of learning about the Confederacy and the Nazis without those actual flags being present in the classroom. They know this, so there must be some other reason they're pushing this bill.
They're also admitting that they don't teach anything about LGBTQ+ at all in any realm. Not health class, civics, history, art, nothing.
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I'm not disagreeing with you, just wanted to share that my mom's high school year book from the early 90s has a picture of one of her teachers dressed like a nazi performing a sieg heil, all for display as a part of the curriculum. She said no one batted an eye or voiced concern for it back then. I truly hope we don't see things like that return to classrooms today, but it wasn't that long ago that it was normal either. I would assume a lot of the people pushing this bill might have experienced something similar.
"You may have a Nazi flag. You may have a confederate flag... "
I mean, hey, who doesn't for just such an occasion?
It's so funny when they call themselves out. Are you saying those two flags have something in common, Trever?
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I dunno, man, I didn't understand the Holocaust at all until my teacher starved some students to death and tossed them in an oven.
if this were to actually happen, I'm positive some people still wouldn't get it
They'd just do what they've been trained to do since 2016. "Fake news! Fake news!"
how do we combat ignorance in our personal lives? I am looking for suggestions
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That's because love and compassion for others is obviously evil.
While hatred and oppression of minorities is good and righteous.
But of course you have to be an idiot to understand that, so you probably don't.
Yeah, ok. So not even pretending to hide it anymore. I fucking hate this country.
Why would they hide it? The more they flaunt, the more their base is emboldened. Turns out people fucking love evil.
Do they also salute the flag with a musk salute?
I think calling it a Musk Salute might actually be a great idea if the media is so unwilling to call it a Nazi Seig Heil.
Call it a Musk Salute to the Nazi flag.
It also makes a lot of sense because in German the salute is called “Hitlergruß” (which literally translates to Hitler salute), because the accompanying words were mostly “Heil Hitler” and not “Sieg Heil” (which also was used, but less common), so you were saluting Hitler. So when Musk does it is in fact a “Sieg Heil”, but when somebody else salutes the American flag it is a Musk salute because you are saluting Musk, the Führer of the USA
It's Utah, WTF do expect.
Racism, bigotry, and polygamy.
Huh.