Colorado governor defends 'Don't Tread on Me' flag after student told to remove patch - eviltoast

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4249593

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis called the Gadsden flag ‘a proud symbol of the American revolution’ after a a Colorado student was told to remove a patch of the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag from his backpack.

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    1 year ago

    First thing, you need to understand that I don’t support banning the usage of the glasden flag. I’ve already said that in my initial comment, so your comment was meaningless from the beginning. I quoted a piece from the article that could explain why some people view the glasden flag in a negative light today.

    Second, the US flag is the flag of the country. If your logic is “well dipshits flew it during their failed attempt at a coup thus you’re saying it should be banned?”, your argument is childish. The US flag doesn’t stand for what they did, they’re just adopting it and using it despite it’s underlying meaning. Banning the Nazi flag makes sense, because it’s a literal enemy flag that represented Nazi ideology. Banning the confederate flag makes sense, because it’s a literal traitorous flag flown by slavers and supporters of racism. The glasden flag doesn’t have the same innate meaning because it was the flag of revolution, it’s just that inbred wannabe revolutionaries today fly it when they’re larping freedom fighter 80 action heroes when in reality they want authoritarian rule.

    Again, I was quoting the article on why the glasden flag has a bad rap today, namely because idiotic authoritarians think they’re all mcs from an 80s action flick.

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        1 year ago

        I was pointing out why people asked him to take the patch off… because it has a bad rep and why it has a bad rep.

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          1 year ago

          That’s like asking a Hindu to remove a swastika just because the Nazis gave it a bad rep while ignoring all its lore and significance to dharmic religions

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            The straw grabbing is getting desperate here.

            I’m not for banning the glasden flag, I’ve said that multiple times. They asked him to take off the patch because of the unfortunate adoption by an authoritarian, violent movement. They didn’t throw him in the gulag, they didn’t expel him, etc. They told him to take it off, that’s all.

            Istfg you people are making a bigger deal out of this than needed.

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              1 year ago

              Yes, and my example is about the exact same thing. I never said they’d “send him to a gulag” just that they’d ban it by “asking him to remove it”

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                I didn’t realize the glasden flag was a religious symbol used by many different countries and cultures. Oh wait, it’s not…

                Also if your definition of ban is that loosy goosy then wow.

                Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me that you didn’t read the article, because it ends with the school allowing the student to display the patch after a meeting because they knew of the historical significance… They just made sure he couldn’t wear the other patches, which had semi-automatic firearms on them…

                So why tf are you here arguing about a ban that didn’t fucking happen?

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                  1 year ago

                  If someone “kindly asks you to not do something” or “beats you up until you stop doing something” both are banning that something

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                    1 year ago

                    Did you not read my entire comment? JFC give it a rest already. They didn’t ban it.