Posted on 05/05/2025 3:50:52 AM PDT by Puppage
A man who was using a small American flag to guide a tour group through the Smithsonian’s American History Museum was told to put away Old Glory because it might offend people.
Austin Petersen, a well-known broadcaster, was guiding a group of his fans through the museum when he was approached by a guard.
“This flag is forbidden from being displayed at the Smithsonian American History Museum because the guards said this symbol may be offensive to some who are visiting,” he wrote on X. “I was using this flag to coordinate my tour group.”
(Excerpt) Read more at toddstarnes.com ...
If this gets POTUS’ attention and nothing follows...
...did it really happen?
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Idiot! He should have used a Palestian flag or the flag of Ukraine. Everybody knows that.
/bitter sarc
The Smithsonian is primarily a history-oriented organization.
They are populated with, and controlled by, academic historians.
Academic historical studies has be rife with Marxist and proto-communist advocates for at least 120 years, if not longer.
Academic historians teach and create the next generation of historians - passing the reins to that generation, cultivated in their image.
THIS is why nothing will change.
All federal workers in the DC region are disproportionately black. Affirmative action + DEI + bullshit. Disproportionately gay female and lesbian too. They love them low-energy, do nothing useful, Federale jobs, especially the shirk from home ones
Just outside DC, the very black Prince George County is the wealthiest black county in the US.
The spike protein tenderizer makes us taste so much better when the aliens ‘serve us’
That has been the case for decades.
That “guard” needs to move up to a Walmart greeter position. SOB. I’d almost bet the guards were America-hating, illegal aliens.
The people who implemented this policy should be removed by Trump.
Tell the guard to pound sand.
Yes, they still have the original Banner on display. When you walk into the museum, it’s at the back wall of the entrance area. You don’t see the Banner right away as it’s behind a wall.
You have to physically go into a darkened hall and go up a ramp, turn a corner...and there it is. It’s lying at an angle, and it’s behind glass.
It amazes and sickens me that they’d freak out because someone held up a little American flag.at the AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM because ‘someone’ might be offended!!!
In a reasonable world, the idiot guard would be forced to explain: 1) who he thinks is offended by a small American flag being used to guide tour groups; and, 2) who told him to forbid small tour group organizing flags used for legitimate, non-threatening, purposes? (I can see excluding large flags with poles that can be used as weapons, things that might damage the exhibits, etc.).
No one travels to Washington, DC, and visits a museum famous for its collections of American historical artifacts, yet is shocked/offended by an American flag. There has to be more to this. Perhaps the guard was pissed that there was a private tour guide rather than one of the guard’s cronies, who have been trained to spew leftist interpretaions.
That truly is amazing that supposed American people could be offended by the American flag. Must be “Americans by chance only” & they don’t really aree with American ideals.
Anyone in America offended by Old Glory deserve an @$$ kicking.
Immediately terminate that person’s employment.
Maybe file a civil rights suit against him for violating the 1st Amendment rights of the flag bearer.
We need to kick these assholes in the face. Punish them. Hurt them financially.
I want my damn country BACK!!!
I hope word of this reaches the Trump Administration.
Looks like more swamp draining is necessary at the Smithsonian.
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Yep, hard to believe this kind of idiocy was probably encouraged by past administrations.
If that's really the policy, it will soon be changed by President Donald J. Trump.
I have not been there in decades. It will be good to reclaim this and all of our other institutions.
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