By what justification does the state deprive students of various rights while at school?
Does that reasoning stand outside of school and outside of an educational setting? If not, the state has no authority to invoke "school rules" to deprive young people of their rights.
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Originally Posted by pocon1
To me, and to millions of other people, the confederate battle flag is a symbol that marks racism and white supremacy. Make all the arguments you want, But I went to school in the South, and you had the occasional dipshit ask "are you a nigger lover?". So I can recognize a racist symbol and what it entails.
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The majority doesn't get to supress alternative interpretations and uses of a symbol just because they choose to interpret the symbol in a certain way. Others are free to ascribe different meanings to the same symbols, and use the symbols for those meanings.
Though I'm willing to bet to you, and to millions of other people, if someone says they interpret the confederate flag in the context of historical southern heritage, you take "southern heritage" to mean "racism and white supremacy". At which point meaningful discourse ends.
Both the United Methodist Church and the Ku Klux Klan use the symbolism of the cross and flame. Seems like it would be slightly stupid to go into a conversation with a random Methodist assuming they're a KKK member, no?