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Palestinian student sues Michigan school over teacher’s reaction to her refusal to stand for Pledge (apnews.com)

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[–] FryHyde@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago

Pledge of Allegiance is literally some stupid shit some opportunists made up to sell flags to schools with fat government contracts.

It's also just sort of creepy to idolize a flag. I always stood for the pledge in school out of respect for the freedoms I enjoyed, but refused to put my heart on my chest to worship a piece of cloth. This was in the 90s.

Nowadays I don't even stand for it because everything's gone to hell and I'm just constantly mad about it all.