Colorado High School Tells Student to Remove US Flag From Truck… It’s Offensive!

I showed this article to my mom and her friend.. My mom said "lets grab the 8 foot flag we have and ride there"
 
I agree that it's a little over the top and tacky to display them like that every day on the back of his truck, but I'm not going to tell the kid he can't wave them or put him down for it at all, and I'd definitely defend his right to do it if I were a lawyer, etc.

But, I also agree with Jiro that some people wave their flag in an offensive manner, and it's not just American flags. In California, people display the Mexican flag everywhere; in restaurants, clothing, homes, etc. For the most part, that doesn't bother me at all, and I welcome the diversity, but sometimes you'll see some cholos in their lowriders flying a big Mexican flag through downtown, and it can't be taken as any way other than offensive. People do the same with American flags. Yes, I know we're in America, but it's the intent behind flying the flag in such a manner: intimidation, not just pride.
 
How is flying a U.S. flag in the United States an act of intimidation when its about their country? You see tacky. I see pride and not ashamed to wave a flag in support of their country.
 
kokonut said:
How is flying a U.S. flag in the United States an act of intimidation when its about their country? You see tacky. I see pride and not ashamed to wave a flag in support of their country.
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so kokonut - what do you see? pride? still not ashamed of them to wave a flag in support of their country?
 
kokonut said:
How is flying a U.S. flag in the United States an act of intimidation when its about their country? You see tacky. I see pride and not ashamed to wave a flag in support of their country.
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I tried to explain above. It all depends on the context, dude. If you choose to ignore that, then fine, but I'm not going to try and explain this to you if you do.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
I tried to explain above. It all depends on the context, dude. If you choose to ignore that, then fine, but I'm not going to try and explain this to you if you do.
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*gasp* YOU DOMESTIC DISSENT!

this is worse than this trucker waving it wrong! :mad2:
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Kinda like how insurgents and militias riding around in their technicals (pick-up trucks with machine guns or cannons mounted on the flatbed) with an overiszed flag waving behind it, Alex?

If so... I can see what you means. Thank god, people don't think about doing that here.
 
Waving your own flag in your own country is good enough. No matter the size.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
I tried to explain above. It all depends on the context, dude. If you choose to ignore that, then fine, but I'm not going to try and explain this to you if you do.
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I was asking for examples using an American flag.

With the truck scenario I see no intimidation. Maybe people have a size issue about what the size of an American flag ought to be for waving purposes before they consider it to be "intimidating"? If that's the case then they're probably morons to think that if it's simply a case of waving one's own flag proud of America.
 
kokonut said:
Waving your own flag in your own country is good enough. No matter the size.
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I agree. So what about this poor frightened guy? Was this veteran Jim Broussard wrong to cut down the flag like that?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dt0UCmrpCc]YouTube - Ignorance - Mexican Flag[/ame]
 
kokonut said:
I was asking for examples using an American flag.

With the truck scenario I see no intimidation. Maybe people have a size issue about what the size of an American flag ought to be for waving purposes before they consider it to be "intimidating"? If that's the case then they're probably morons to think that if it's simply a case of waving one's own flag proud of America.
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Who said people were having problem with size of the flag? Nowhere in the article mentioned about it.
 
Jiro said:
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so kokonut - what do you see? pride? still not ashamed of them to wave a flag in support of their country?
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Regarding to the Klux Klan, no respect for the minorities and other diverse people. Shame on them. :mad:
 
Of course no response from Kokonut on the KKK's "pride" in displaying the stars and bars. Typical.
 
kokonut said:
I was asking for examples using an American flag.
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See Jiro's post #15 Need anything more clear?

With the truck scenario I see no intimidation. Maybe people have a size issue about what the size of an American flag ought to be for waving purposes before they consider it to be "intimidating"? If that's the case then they're probably morons to think that if it's simply a case of waving one's own flag proud of America.
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Based on the information provided, I don't really see intimidation either. But I wasn't there. You weren't there. Who knows what the kid's real intentions were. What I'm trying to say, and what Jiro already proved, is that waving a flag in a certain manner and a certain context can be intimidation, even if it is an American flag in America.
 
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