Because of course they did, gotta live up to that deplorable label
Wow Tennessee, what a shit hole it’s turning into.
Tennessee GOP quietly overturns marriage equality with immediate effect
Your “heritage” lasted three years less than the Obama Administration.
banjo playin and cousin fuckin intensifies
“Ain’t nobody fuckin’ mah sister but me! I done put the work in!”
Underage cousins*
*FTFY. Don’t forget Republicans in a bunch of states have been fighting minimum marriage age laws on top of everything else.
Tennessee: We’re not all bigots, but you shouldn’t feel safe.
Tennesseean here, this is absolutely the case. I wish there was more I could do to welcome marginalized people, but the best advice I have is to get out of here as soon as possible because things are going to get worse before they get better.
I came to say the same thing.
But I’ll say this- the nazis in Nashville the other week were only able to escape unscathed because we didn’t know they were there.
It’s a heritage of hate.
One is unconstitutional to ban, while the other is treason.
I was honestly taken aback that the confederate flag is allowed to be displayed in public schools.
Those 4 years that they were treasonous to get rid of state rights to ban slavery is very important to their state history.
Let’s proudly expose our slavery heritage while banning a symbol of individual freedom and diversity.
…while claiming to support “freedom”.
Done in one.
Why does there need to be any flags in the classrooms to begin with? Even putting up the flag of the country seems a little odd to me. Use a flagpole.
To remind those people of their place.
The effect would be felt by both LGBTQIA+ clubs and GSA’s in the schools, at a bare minimum. They would be unable to utilize the pride flag, for example, in any kind of advertisement, logo, banner, etc.
I don’t think school is the place for ads either…
In the past, rainbow flags were used as a sign to students that you as a teacher were available for anyone to come talk if they needed support, and that your classroom was a safe space. This was especially important for some of the most stigmatized and marginalized groups in the US.
So there is a bit of history behind it.
This may only be anecdotal, and I can’t quote statistics on how effective or important pride flags are to that type of support now, but a close friend of mine who came out in high school first came out to a trusted teacher. They ONLY did this because the pride flag to them meant someone who might understand. It was a year or so later when this person came out to our friend group, and only because of the guidance of that individual who help them through some serious shit, and got them the support infrastructure they needed.
That is actually a valid point. I didn’t really think about it from that perspective.
Dude, I mean high school clubs advertising to other high school students, like this one: https://www.coolidgeshs.org/ourpages/auto/2023/5/3/45488112/image _2_.jpg
So the exact thing I used in my message as an example of what I didn’t mean?
Right, but that’s what the language of the bill is intended to silence.
So, if there is a school club they can’t let people in the school know about it with posters, even though that’s the only people they are trying to attract?
C’moon now… Surely you can read the whole message before replying.
What do you think posters about events are if not ads?
I guess they count as ads aswell. I just don’t get why deem necessary to ask me about event postest when it’s the exact exception I already addressed in the message you’re replying to.
There is literally nothing wrong with the pride flag (or progress flag). There IS a problem with the confederate flag.
I would much rather my son or daughter learn to be accepting of their neighbors regardless of their sexuality, than to learn whatever kind of bullshit a pro-slavery person has to tell them about their “history”.
Losers love losing. Deniers love denying. Traitors love treason. The GOP loves Trump’s shit-crusted cock, but denies being his bottom.
It’d be nice if legislators could just let people have whatever flags they want up.
Neither the Confederate flag nor gay pride flags are religious symbols, so it shouldn’t really violate the church-state separation rules.
You could make a very easy case about one promoting discrimination.
Um, except one is an (inaccurate) symbol of oppression and hatred and the other represents freedom and expression…
Well, it was one of the battle flags, so it still is a symbol of oppression and hatred, with an added bit of violence thrown in.
It wasn’t even a battle flag, just a portion of one. That’s what I meant by ‘inaccurate’, but I don’t want to get into the nuances because that could detect from the point.
Just to be clear, the point is: fuck racists and bigots. Their bullshit only detracts from civilization.
symbol of oppression and hatred
symbol of freedom and expression
centrists:
Ha, I don’t have a middle finger big enough for that BS.
I went to grade school in Mississippi, (Air Force brat, 1970’s) and here are some fun facts:
- The day started with the class reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and then singing “Dixie.”
- Every classroom had a paddle hanging near the blackboard. The principle and many of the teachers also had a paddle handing off of their belt.
- The "That’s a Paddlin’ " bit on the Simpsons was a 100% accurate representation of my first day in school
- The Mississippi schools were about 6 months ahead of the Utah schools I came from and they made me do a lot of the homework assigned before I got there.
My god, how far behind must the Utah schools have been for Mississippi schools to be ahead!
Right? It shocks me to this day. They were at least 6 mos behind the MS schools.
That’s what we get for giving the Confederates Military burials instead of an unmarked mass graves for their murderous treachery in the name of slavery.
Mercy was a mistake.
Unironically, the leaders of the Confederacy should have been executed for treason.
“Johnson embarked on a policy designed to restore the former Confederate states to civil government with maximum speed and a minimum disturbance of Southern institutions beyond the abolition of slavery itself,” writes historian Michael Les Benedict. “His policy placed former rebels in political control of nearly every Southern state and left Southern blacks to the mercies of the men who had fought so desperately to keep them in bondage.”
Nashville has had a pride festival for the past thirty five years. They were a member of the confederacy for almost exactly five years.
BuT iTs our hiSTorY!!!
It’s history they want to repeat, not the present they want to accept
1st amendment lawsuit, here we come!
That’s great, but who’s paying for that?
I’d bet actual money that the ACLU is already looking for a case to sponsor.
Please use that betting money to sponsor the ACLU so they can sponsor a case.
I don’t know how many Supreme Court Justices the ACLU can afford.
I’ll book a cruise for my very close friend Clarence
If we all kick in $25 we might be able to buy Justice Boofer some coke and a beer…
Oh he went there
