Considering that it’s already illegal to force students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, or even stand for it, this is at best idiotic, and at worst, a gateway to overturning the bit about the Pledge and opening the gates to political indoctrination of children.
Right-wing performative patriotism is there to stop people from thinking that their country could be better, because of course it’s already the best.
Actual patriotism is the act of improving your home to be worthy of pride.
Remember when conservatives were freaking out at Colin Kaepernick because he wasn’t doing the performance right? Because he was trying to bring attention to the plight of black folks in our country? It’s because they confuse nationalism with patriotism; they were pissed at Kaepernick for “hating America,” when he was saying “we should be better.”
The nationalists don’t want to country to work for everyone though.
Since when? Did it happen during or after the whole “take a knee” thing? I definitely had to do it until at least 8th grade which was 1999-2000.
which would require all teachers and students at Iowa schools to sing at least one verse of the national anthem every day
That’s weirder than requiring the whole thing.
Doubtful Trump could get through a whole verse correctly even with a prompter.
“oh shay can you see… see they’re all against us, and we’re going to show them. By the dawns… I knew a woman named dawn… Great woman, gorgeous like Ivanka… Uhh… Light. What do proudly… We are a proud people and we won’t stand for their tricks, their cheats. We hail… you know Hitler was hailed as a great guy. Amazing person, did great things.”
Trump’s favorite bit is the part about colonial soldiers taking the airports
My dad had to take the citizenship test like 40 years ago and he still remembers the most weirdly-pointless shit no one should ever care about like “Ben Franky didn’t discover electricity but he was the first postmaster general”
He didn’t discover electricity, but if I recall correctly, he was the one to coin/define the positive(+)/negative(-) nomenclature, including what each of those actually means (i.e. the charge resulting from rubbing a certain type of fabric over a second material).
I’d love for someone there to explain to me what problem they think they are solving here.
They think obedience to higher authority needs to be mandatory. And crucially, their grouping is always the higher authority (“Don’t tread on me” from democratic government, sing the anthem to Republican leadership, beat the Capitol police when they and so on you get the idea.)
woke anti america thinking. because how dare a teenager be able to think for themselves and realize that this country did and does unjustifiably shitty things and hasn’t acknowledged or apologized for them.
you know what the quickest way is to make a kid resent their country? force meaningless ceremony on them every day.
i was forced to say the pledge of allegiance every day up until high school. it was a bit of a shock to not be forced to say it my freshman year. I can’t imagine how bad it would be to be forced to say the pledge and sing the anthem every day. especially if you get some of those teachers who have a flagpole stuck up their asses that they will give some sort of administrative punishment if you sang the magical flag song wrong. I think I’d tell my parents I was just going to live in detention all year.
I was born in a country in which this happened. We didn’t resent it, but it was annoying.
And no one wanted to sing it too loud because it was embarrassing.
But that’s what life was. Today I think it was bullshit. But back then it was just another stupid thing to do, just like getting up early to go to fucking school.
