US students kicked of school campus for wearing US flag t-shirts

[Kev]

But why are the Mexicans getting upset by a bunch of kids wearing a specific set of colours? Surely they need to appreciate that not everyone wants nor should need to go along with what they feel their customs are?

Fine celebrate your day, but don't expect everyone else to chime in with the same chords. Rise above it and move on, it is a free country.

They aren't asking other people to celebrate. But deciding to wear your own flag on that day is clearly just to provoke a negative reaction, what other possible reason would there be for it other than to display aggression and hostility to the Mexicans?

How is it any different from the Wooten Bassett march? The muslims were allowed to march anywhere except through Wooten Bassett, because that is the place famous in this country for mourning our dead servicemen and women.

Clearly it was thought (by the entire non Muslim population of Britain) that the decision to march through Wooten Bassett was a deliberate attempt to dishonour our soldiers and thus there was an outcry.

How could you interprete this in any other way than to suppose they were deliberately trying to dishonour the Mexicans?

There are a lot of fucking nutters in American schools, there have even been shootings and killings so the principle obviously did what he had to do in the interests of the safety of the students and to prevent any conflict escalating.

You're arguing for the right to make a point, but surely it's more important for us to have unity and solidarity.

Instead of having a mindset of antagonism why not a mindset of friendship and empathy? Go to college, as an American and wear a Mexican flag to show your solidarity with your neighbors.

How much better would the world be if we could be just a little tolerant and inclusive rather than rant about our rights and freedoms.

I can't really use your Wooten Bassett example as a point of reference because it is a story that I'm not familiar with, but I don't really see the issue with them marching from what you have said about it. We all know my viewpoints on those pointless and possibly illegal wars though. If you are silly enough to sign up, then your head is gonna get the chop. If people want to protest through the areas where the dead might be resting, then so be it. I don't see the issue with that, but like I say I will need to read about that story some more.

This story is far less problematic than dissing the dead though. Okay, these kids might have been purposely disrespectful, but so what? What you wear is your own choice. Like I've said before, I am no nationalist, but how can you really get upset by someone wearing a national flag? If someone punched me on the nose I would be upset, but to wear a flag of any nation on this earth and from any time in its history? Is that really going to insult anyone with a modicum of sense? Come on now, it is their country. Maybe the Mexican immigrants should wear half American mixed with Mexican flags considering that their quality of life is from a place that is not called Mexico. It works both ways, let the Americans be and with their possible 'attitude', and let them with their vast majority in numbers wear their Mexican colours! I really don't see the dispute.

those three words sum up my thoughts exactly Miles. The principle didn't want to risk trouble in his school so he sent them home.

They are moaning about it but so what?

Kids got sent home for an afternoon, so what? stop whining you fucking antagonistic twats