Discussion for article #234488
That’s because we’re exceptional, you see?
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I guess they’d really flip out if they came to my daughter’s elementary school, where they did it in Spanish every morning.
And of course, the big joke is that this was likely the first time those kids even paid attention to the pledge. It might be a meaningless speech that kids recite because they’re required to, but by god, if they’re going to ignore a patriotic speech, it better be in English.
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Exceptionally stupid, xenophobic, racist and bigoted, for a start. The Superintendent should never have apologized. What happened to a Teachable Moment?
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“Principal Aaron Hopmayer issued an apology the same day.”
Fuck him then. Goddamn pussy caving to these childish fucks who throw a tempter tantrum every time reality intrudes on their carefully manufactured and manicured delusions.
And fuck those students too and the parents who are raising them to be bigoted, racist, xenophobic, sheltered little shits whose nativist white-power views will continue to pollute our society for yet another generation.
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Much more powerful in Arabic, all things considered, I think.
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While mind-boggling that adults can’t seem to act like adults in this situation?
You should click-through the link to the local paper and accompanying comments:
That article gives quite a bit more context-- and-- the key takeaway for me is that the Arabic recitation-- was just one of five languages the Pledge was delivered in that week.
FuxNews Ignorance. Winning!
jw1
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At least it wasn’t in French. Do you know U.S. restaurants still serve “French fries”?! Tell me, what good did it do to nuke Japan (twice!!) if we still end up with French fries?
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Ditto.
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They should have read the Pledge of Allegiance in Pig Latin. And I’ll bet the same people would be complaining about it being read in “Muslimese”.
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How have we become so shallow and narrow-minded as to not even allow for some learning of other cultures? And the principal should have politely told these idiots to politely go frik themselves.
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The boys involved in this are looking to forward to pledging either Kappa Delta Rho or Sigma Alpha Epsilon when they enroll in a university.
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Totally missing the point of the pledge, by many kilometers.
I think the pledge is BS myself, and long ago stopped saying it. If we took a minute every day to help create “liberty and justice for all” instead of just mouthing the words, we would be a lot closer to the ideal described in the pledge.
I view it as the kind of mindless symbolism that leads people to go into a rage when, for example, an enemy burns or dirties the US flag (or rips a koran, or burns a bible, etc) . I choose not to give adversaries such an easy way to get to me.
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Just change it to “NO Foreign Language Week” and everything is copacetic.
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I was wondering about that and would have bet that was the case, thanks for confirming my suspicion. Just serves to better highlight the real reason the assholes were objecting.
Edit: I am a little surprised that those objecting managed to get the whole English bit right and that none of them went for “Speak American!” or the like.
Edit: Edit: From the original article:
Carbone said she had received complaints from district residents who had lost family members in Afghanistan …
Because they speak Arabic in Afghanistan, because they are Muslim, and all Muslim’s speak Arabic, right? :facepalm:
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You’re trying to instigate a brawl, aren’t you?
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I set my odometer to the kilometer setting. I get more of those per gallon. Helps the environment.
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In Texas, the law is that the kids say the Texas pledge, too, before school. I don’t remember it, but remember it was awkward, and has a semi-colon in it.
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Elitists!
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What do you call a person who can speak several languages? Multilingual
What do you call a person who can speak two languages? Bilingual
What do you call a person who can only speak one language? American
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