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Seattle dance squad says they were told American flag shirts made audience members feel 'triggered and unsafe'
Fox News ^ | 4/11/ | Kendall Tietz

Posted on 04/11/2024 10:23:02 AM PDT by MAGA2017

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: american; flag; triggered; unsafe
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1 posted on 04/11/2024 10:23:02 AM PDT by MAGA2017
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To: MAGA2017

“Unsafe,” like “outrage” is a word that has lost its meaning. However just once I’d like to hear a lib idiot asked to explain what danger he thinks he or she is facing, so that they’re “unsafe.”


2 posted on 04/11/2024 10:25:44 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MAGA2017
Snowflake alert...


3 posted on 04/11/2024 10:27:24 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: MAGA2017

Pussies


4 posted on 04/11/2024 10:27:51 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

Doesn’t affect us. We got other fish to fry-winnable races for starters.


5 posted on 04/11/2024 10:28:41 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MAGA2017

They showed up at the brainless Zombie dance


6 posted on 04/11/2024 10:29:01 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: bigbob

Brain washed traitors and a clear and present danger.


7 posted on 04/11/2024 10:30:06 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: MAGA2017

Imagine how many people will be “triggered” if Trump is reelected. Will be interesting.


8 posted on 04/11/2024 10:34:43 AM PDT by allendale
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To: MAGA2017

I’m all in favor of people leaving to find a country whose flag they feel ‘safe’ with.


9 posted on 04/11/2024 10:40:40 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: MAGA2017

Poor babies. Send them to the Russian front.

Or N. Korea.

5.56mm


10 posted on 04/11/2024 10:48:35 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: MAGA2017

President Trump should start something like the Peace Corps for people stuck in the US who hate the US.

The “Idiot Corps” could help people revoke US citizenship and resettle them in a socialist paradise.


11 posted on 04/11/2024 10:51:27 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Jamestown1630

This
“I’m all in favor of people leaving to find a country whose flag they feel ‘safe’ with.”
Spot on


12 posted on 04/11/2024 10:54:20 AM PDT by RWGinger (FJB)
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To: MAGA2017

Tell them to go be trans in Palestine. (Or China, or Russia). See how that works out for them...


13 posted on 04/11/2024 10:57:37 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: gibsonguy

Start keeping lists.


14 posted on 04/11/2024 10:59:46 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: gibsonguy

So, if the American flag is now offensive, can we break out Confederate flag?


15 posted on 04/11/2024 11:00:11 AM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic.)
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To: MAGA2017

2021 headline
Oregon teacher removes American flag from classroom, says it ‘stands for violence and menace and intolerance’


12-year-old boy booted from class over Gadsden flag patch on his backpack....Fox News
Aug 29, 2023 — New video shared on social media shows a 12-year-old student being disciplined at school for having a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack.

Note on the Gadsden flag:
n 1775, as the American Revolution began, South Carolinian Christopher Gadsden expanded on Banjamin Franklin’s idea when he created the yellow flag with a coiled rattler and the phrase: “Don’t Tread On Me”.


16 posted on 04/11/2024 11:02:05 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: MAGA2017

Try to imagine this happening in some other country, like Mexico, say. Yeah, I’m having trouble with that, too.


17 posted on 04/11/2024 11:06:20 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: bigbob
Pussies

Yes. About 20 years ago I reupholstered the interior of my ragtop sports car with a USA flag theme (not the seats but the surroundings). Never heard any complaints or triggering while driving in SF or elsewhere. Got compliments though. We’re in America, be proud.

18 posted on 04/11/2024 11:12:45 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: MAGA2017

I don’t feel “unsafe” now that we’ve got concealed carry but I am offended and “triggered” when I see freeloading, deadbeat foreigners out there spending U.S. taxpayer dollar when the first act they did when they came to America was say FU to American laws.


19 posted on 04/11/2024 11:17:33 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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To: MAGA2017

Sue the Rain Country Dance Association for all costs incurred plus a little more, just for justice.


20 posted on 04/11/2024 11:36:40 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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