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Originally Posted by magictoy
Lesson Plan #1: Bring in a person in blackface (because a black person wouldn't participate), put a leash on him, and lead him around the room. The students will never forget this lesson on US history in regard to slaves.
Lesson Plan #2: Come dressed as Hitler, and deliver some of his more "emotion-evoking" rhetoric. None of the students will ever forget.
Smacks of bigotry? Of course. But if flag-burning is protected speech, so are the above.
Someone needs to get a grip, but it isn't the people protesting the grossly inappropriate behavior of the flag burner.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Except that burning a flag isn't racist. It's not bigoted towards religon, either. It's not really that specific at all. Usually it's accompanied by a message, and that message is what people generally get up in arms about. Sometimes it's antiwar, sometimes it's anti black, sometimes it's anti america. This time it was nothing. It was a lesson in a social issue. So they are trying to fire a social studies teacher for teaching about social issues? In my mind, that makes them alarmist idiots. It's like firing a math teacher for teaching the OTHER pythagorean theorem (...you don't want to know..).
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The act of burning a flag ISN'T RACIST - it's not bigoted at all-, and thus comparisons to racist behavior aren't apt. Godwin's aside, and that was a massive Godwin, your argument doesn't seem to take into account the real meaning of flag burning. I believe that this is the same problem plaguing the parents and students up in arms about this: they don't know what flag burning means. They see it happen in the Middle East via Fox News and assume they understand it.
I've burned a flag before. It wasn't racist. It wasn't supporting genocide. It was to represent my disgust of certian governmental actions. Race, gender and creed never entered the equasion.