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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Their triggering triggers me.
Ameriphobics need to leave the country Pronto.
It’s likely several members of the hosting dance organization are Antifa sympathizers.
If the next visiting group were dressed in rainbow colors , Ukraine colors or may be like an ISIS flag, there would have been no objection.
Yep, some feel unsafe and triggered by the US flag and they are catered to. There are some who feel unsafe and triggered by men in women’s spaces, and they are silenced.
Next time.....start your own dance...why even associate with these ignoramuses. We don’t need them...leave them behind. Let them revel in their life’s delusions.
No ifs ands or buts about it.
It’s also a desecration of the flag to wear it as a garment. That’s true regardless of the reason or cause.
You can be deep in the trenches for your cause but when you try to impose your will on another’s freedom, you have crossed the line. Expect lawsuits to drain your bank account.
Maybe they could go and dance under the flag of Cuba then?... We wouldn’t want those poor little babies to be triggered any further.
But their uniforms were merely "American flag-themed."
"Flag Etiquette" applies only to flags - not to, e.g., bunting, or flag-themed clothing.
Regards,
Yeah in a boomerang way they are honouring the flag. Not their intention of course but life can be funny at times.
It’s strange that they object to US flag. I thought these people loved the US government.
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