Posted on 04/10/2024 7:08:09 PM PDT by Libloather
Members of a regional women’s country line dance team were reportedly kicked out of a Seattle dance convention after organizers claimed their American flag-themed shirts made some attendees feel "triggered and unsafe."
Over the weekend at the Emerald City Hoedown in Seattle, the Borderline Dance team was set to perform, but were essentially told they weren't welcome by organizer Rain Country Dance Association, an LGBTQ+ dance community, over their matching American flag themed shirts, Jason Rantz reported for 770 KTTH.
"Unfortunately, what our team was met with upon arrival was that our flag tops were offensive to some of the convention goers," the dance group posted to Facebook. "There was a small group that felt ‘triggered and unsafe.'"
Co-captain Lindsay Stamp spoke with Rantz for The Jason Rantz Show, explaining that their costumes sparked a "small percentage" of complainants who brought up Israel’s war against Hamas and transgender issues.
"At first we were told we would just be boo’d, yelled at and likely many of them would walk out," the group's Facebook post explained. "This did not deter us. But then we were given an ultimatum. Remove the flag tops and perform in either street clothes (which most didn’t bring as they traveled there in their uniforms) or they would supply us with ECH shirts from years past… Or, don’t perform at all, which effectively was asking us to leave."
"We don’t speak for our team, we speak on behalf of them so the choice was theirs," the post said. "As we knew would happen because there really was no choice in our minds, it was a unanimous NO."
Stamp told Rantz that members of the team were shocked after they spent only 30 minutes at the venue before they started receiving complaints, adding that the team is patriotic...
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My response would have been: “Afraid of a flag? Sucks to be you I guess.”
Yep.
All ‘Rats have become offensive to me.
They all need to go hunker in their bunkers, never to be seen again.
Be gay proud. Be trans proud. But do not be American proud. Yep. Commie message understood.
“There was a small group that felt ‘triggered and unsafe.’”
Any small group feeling ‘triggered and unsafe.’ should not attend.
Some of the “Inclusive” lgbtqwer+ people were offended.
I heard that other groups pulled out because they were offended that the “Inclusives” were offended.
what ever happened to if you are offended or triggered just refuse to participate yourself ? it seems kind of selfish to deny a large group of people entertainment.
I want to blame William Shatner for saying:
“Because the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.”
Normal, healthy and happy-looking American girls wearing American flag tops and doing a line dance. Yeah, I can see how they would cause distress to the miserable freak-show element of our population which, unfortunately, appears to be in the driver’s seat.
Let them go to China, Cuba or North Korea, maybe they will feel safer there.
Rhetorical question: Why is this always a one-way street?
A woke liberal complains about something, and heaven and earth is moved to satisfy that liberal.
But should a conservative complain about something, he’s told to just shut up and deal with it.
Example:
You cannot buy on Amazon a shirt with a Confederate symbol on it.
But you can buy many shirts featuring the mass murderer Mao Tse-Tung.
Exactly.
The wrong people were asked to leave!
100% MAGA.
bttt
Hypocrisy, as usual for the left.
I hear Venezuela 🇻🇪 and Iran 🇮🇷 are very lovely this time of year.
It should have been the communistas who had to leave, not the patriots!
That’s right.
Get out! Go to Canada and feel safer!
Don’t know about North Korea or Cuba, but the Chinese are pretty patriotic.
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