• Xhieron@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Captive audience, maybe, but they absolutely have the option to stay seated. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).

    Compelled speech is a hill any American patriot should be willing to die on, literally if necessary.

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      9 months ago

      I had a teacher in high school who had in his classroom a sign that compelled standing for the pledge. our school also played the anthem too and I’ll bet that mandate carried over too. I didn’t have him 1st period so I never had to endure any of that.

      he was also quite literally the worst teacher I ever had. he didn’t teach anything. it was basically a class where you sat, listened to him lecture about bullshit, call him sir every time, and sit and write on a topic to a specific word count. also a self described white married with children christian who (I didn’t find out until well after I graduated) hit on the black girls in class, but you probably knew that already.

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        9 months ago

        but you probably knew that already.

        Never ask a white supremacist the race of their girlfriend.