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Seattle dance squad says they were told American flag shirts made audience members feel 'triggered and unsafe'
Submitted 8 months ago by wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee to conservative@lemm.ee
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AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 8 months ago
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
How do you get that from them wearing flags and dancing ?
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
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(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker’s desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
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(j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Flag code isn’t law. Also they didn’t use a flag for clothing. No flags were harmed in the making of their outfits.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Doesn’t have to be law to be a stupid decision. Conservatives love to show “respect” to the flag, which the flag code outlines how to do. If you then toss those guidelines to the side whenever it’s beneficial to your argument, you’re not really respecting the flag, legality aside.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’d bet $1000 that this is being misrepresented.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
See if you can find a cite
Djtecha@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Can you post a reputable story on this? Fox isn’t journalism, they’ve been very clear about that with their lawyers.
boywar3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Assuming this article is even true, which is dubious, it’s a complete nothingburger, lol
It’s just more pathetic culture war bullshit because conservatives keep racking up Ls and have little to show the American people. It’s so much easier to screech about “wokes and immigrants are destroying this nation” than to actually attempt to fix the problems that matter, like climate change, the economy, and our aging infrastructure (of course, this is also due to he Republicans being bought and paid for by business interests that want to undermine fixing these issues).
Any time I see some nutjob republican make some big sweeping “anti-woke” legislation, I stop and ask myself: “How does this help the average American in ways that actually matter to them?” Usually, the answer is,“it doesn’t.”
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Oh great, now we have both left-wing and right-wing versions of You Won’t Believe What Those People Did This Week. Is this a progress?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What a joke.
Why don’t the leave the US if it’s so offensive? No one’s forcing them to stay
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I support free speech but if you are triggered by our flag, it’s best you leave.
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This whole thing stinks of culture war boogie man bait…
There is no legit source for this story, aside from some conservative blogger(?) and a random Facebook post.
Nobody is going to say literally that they feel triggered. That’s an inflammatory term used to insult anybody on the opposite side of an argument…
Lame.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Even if the source is legit, it boils down to 'gay people told flag-wearing patriots they felt uncomfortable having them around".
Like…so what? Why does this matter in the first place?
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In conservative culture it helps push the “gays hate my country” narrative. Which to anybody with common sense is obviously not what it means, but it fuels that fire.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Two teams. It’s in the article.
It’s weird to have country dance group and not expect to see the American flag. The two go hand in hand
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Why would gay people be uncomfortable with the American flag?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
So you don’t believe women?
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do you?
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How do you arrive at that destination? Strawman, that’s how.