Posted on 08/30/2023 9:53:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The meaning?
FAFO
I’m sure it was either reverse or get sued!
Kudos to this boy and his family for their Patriotism
What an ignorant answer given by the “researcher!” The school changed the meaning if the flag because people fly it at Trump rallies? or with Trump flags?
It is an AMERICAN flag, like the 13 colony one.
And the First Amendment is still sucking hind tit.
RE: I’m sure it was either reverse or get sued!
Read the last paragraphs of the article. It was reversed.
RE: it is an AMERICAN flag, like the 13 colony one.
I wonder what the snake 🐍 stands for….
-- Grateful Dead, Uncle John's Band
I understood it was reversed, that’s why I wished kudos for the boy.
My response meant I bet the school board’s only option was ‘reverse or get sued’
I posted a Grateful Dead related item elsewhere recently -
I wonder if the leftists with cancel Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead due to this lyric in Playing In The Band; “A man is just man”.
This progressed like a South Park episode.
To the school official, “I interpret your judgment of my patch as racist and your judgment triggers me, so shut up or leave your job.”
RE: Benjamin Franklin role....
The first time the “Join or Die” image was seen by the public was in 1754 when Benjamin Franklin published it in The Pennsylvania Gazette.
Franklin made (or commissioned someone to make) a woodcut of a timber rattlesnake, snipped into 8 pieces, and labeled with the initials of respective colonies. This was then stamped into the paper and distributed far and wide.
Note that the colonies wouldn’t have been fully formed at this time. Par
Parts of Delaware were stuffed into Pennsylvania. Connecticut was still under the umbrella of New England, and Georgia had recently been incorporated. As a result, there are only eight colonies in the image, even though the amount of land controlled by Britain would have been roughly the same.
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He used quotes from a report that George Washington issued, which stated that French soldiers would keep pushing and taking from the colonies, eventually reaching a critical point.
Like a flesh-eating virus, these strategic attacks would eventually kill the colonies. Franklin’s image atop the article stood as a stark reminder of the colonies’ combined responsibility to defend the larger group. Without each and every aspect of the colonies, they would surely crumble and die eventually, just like an actual snake snipped into 8ths.
From:https://a-z-animals.com/blog/the-join-or-die-flag-vs-dont-tread-on-me-compared-history-
That is upsetting to me——a child was removed from school....
Public shaming and having children turn in conservative parents on the way.
Welcome to the hellish new America.
Thanks again, Dems.
WTF!
“Tread on me! Tread on me! I’m a masochist!”
with a picture of a roadkilled snake.
More and more, we are seeing cases where nearly 250 years of historical meaning are being discarded for a "sometimes" interpretation of recent origin.
When given the choice between accepting societally common meanings or rejecting them for recent fad meanings, our institutions are leaning towards the latter.
-PJ
It completely backfired on the school.
The young boy posted on Twitter how a bunch of kids are now sporting patches on their backpacks, with stickers on their notebooks and lockers. Once the controversy hit and this boy’s story went viral, a slew of upset parents quickly educated their children. The kids joined the melee.
Gadsden flags abound!
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