The principal of Soumakian and Camarillo High School in California got a group of cheering students at a basketball game in trouble for chanting "USA!" and wearing American-flag bandanas. The students were suspended, but that's been rescinded. Still, he says the administration wants to look further into the incident to make sure it wasn't "racially motivated."
Government schools are now indoctrination centers for post-America.
This is the same mentality we see behind "hate crimes." It's not enough for a school, municipality, state or nation to specify behaviors deemed unacceptable. The thoughts and motives of the person must be parsed. The inside of one's head is no longer private space.
And what kind of contortions are necessary to view displays of patriotism as possibly "racially motivated" in any circumstance?
Camarillo High principal Glenn Lipman disputed the students’ claim that they were suspended, but said they were asked to leave the campus. He told the Star that asking them to remove their bandanas was a precaution because of the diverse student bodies of both high schools. The schools each have large Hispanic populations.
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Do those Hispanic students have some kind of problem with patriotism? If so, what are they doing here?
ReplyDeleteCome on man, when have you known HS punks to spontaneously wax patriotic at a roundball game?
ReplyDeleteAh, parsing their motives, I see. Going with the meme that "It's obvious that this was an ethnic taunt."
ReplyDeleteI dunno, fights have broken out over much less at hs games. I am not going to blow this up into some grand indictment of public education. Ask the Principal, he was there. And you know his job is to keep the punks in line. Do you think they might have been cheering a man or woman in uniform? Dont you wish.
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