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School shut after Confederate flag-bearing truck gatherings(Snowflake alarm!)
seattletimes.com ^ | 4/19/2018 | unk

Posted on 04/19/2018 9:51:13 AM PDT by rktman

Officials say a potential threat has forced the closure of a central Michigan high school where students parked their pickup trucks adorned with Confederate flags outside for two days.

Bay City Public Schools Superintendent Stephen Bigelow tells The Bay City Times he has canceled classes Thursday at Bay City Western High after being informed about rumors that people planned to confront students.

WJRT-TV reports Bigelow said in a message to parents that the “unsubstantiated” rumors involved threats from outside the school district.

Six trucks flying or painted with the Confederate battle flag parked outside of the school on Tuesday and were joined by others on Wednesday, when they were met by a counter-demonstration against racism and bigotry.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: csa; johnnyreb
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Hmmmm. Were emergency safe spaces opened to the offended? Remember, free speech is a one way street. And we're driving the wrong way obviously.
1 posted on 04/19/2018 9:51:14 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Would this have happened if the flags were those of Arabic tribes?


2 posted on 04/19/2018 9:57:03 AM PDT by Don Corleone ( lose the gun. save the cannolis.)
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To: Don Corleone

Or rainbow flags...


3 posted on 04/19/2018 9:58:36 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: rktman

The country is infected with collective insanity. Closing a school on the appearance of trucks with a certain symbol. A CEO gripped with terror because an employee followed company policy but didn’t realize that certain races are given special exemptions.


4 posted on 04/19/2018 10:01:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Leftism is an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mash of virtue. -Klavan.)
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To: rktman

Bay City; a miniature version of Detroit, in the middle of nowhere. Dead GM factory towns like Pontiac, Flint, Saginaw, and Bay City are all leftist shitholes filled mostly with the dreggs after the workers all moved away. Oh, and they were the landing zip codes for lot’s of obama’s DACA and refugee hoardes.

Of course these fools don’t realize that they are completely surrounded by farms, woods, and plenty of Michiganders with Southern roots.


5 posted on 04/19/2018 10:02:29 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: Freestate316

“Or rainbow flags...”

A much greater threat to the kids at school.


6 posted on 04/19/2018 10:02:52 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: rktman

Perhaps young folks are getting sick and tired of the tyrannical left turning them into hateful pussies and bossing them around.


7 posted on 04/19/2018 10:05:42 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your Hair.)
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Quick - somebody break out the hot cocoa and crayons - STAT!


8 posted on 04/19/2018 10:08:11 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: rktman

Did they “Roll Coal” on them?


9 posted on 04/19/2018 10:08:14 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Don Corleone

Or ISIS..........................


10 posted on 04/19/2018 10:08:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: rktman

Show me on this doll where the confederate flag hurt you. :-)


11 posted on 04/19/2018 10:09:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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12 posted on 04/19/2018 10:11:50 AM PDT by blam
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Terrorists are jotting all this stuff down and laughing.


13 posted on 04/19/2018 10:15:01 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: rktman

This used to happen ALL the time. Every other pick up truck used to have some type of Confederate flag logo on it. Now a Confederate flag is the equivalent of a Nazi flag in Germany. You get investigated for displaying one.

The irony is that the Confederate Flag was used for years by Dems as a political symbol of white solidarity. The Dems used it as a political rallying cry for suppression of black and minority votes. In the past 30 or 40 years, since the Dems dropped segregation and Jim Crow as a means of keeping political power, the Confederate Flag has become simply a cultural symbol. And now the Dems and their SJW allies are leading the charge to demonize it.


14 posted on 04/19/2018 10:15:18 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: dforest

Yes, it’s encouraging.


15 posted on 04/19/2018 10:16:07 AM PDT by JonPreston (I post To: "All" because article posters rarely contribute to their own threads)
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To: blam

Confederate flags and snow? Those are two things I don’t expect to see together.


16 posted on 04/19/2018 10:22:29 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Freestate316

I always call it the fag flag.


17 posted on 04/19/2018 10:24:12 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (It's Ok to be white.)
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To: Don Corleone; rktman

They were safer than if a bunch of hip hoppers or rappers park outside for two days.


18 posted on 04/19/2018 10:25:28 AM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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19 posted on 04/19/2018 10:39:01 AM PDT by Iron Munro (4)
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My god...liberals are crazy!


20 posted on 04/19/2018 10:47:08 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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