A viral video of a 12-year-old Colorado student being told to remove a patch depicting the "Don't Tread on Me" flag prompted the governor to respond.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4249593

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis called the Gadsden flag ‘a proud symbol of the American revolution’ after a a Colorado student was told to remove a patch of the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag from his backpack.

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
    81·
    1 year ago

    I totally feel this way too. Because of the dukes of hazard even the confederate flag did not seem to bad back when the kkk seemed dead and you would think no one would be actually proud of what the flag represented but then the world turned upsidedown.

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I get it. Seemed like the “confederate flag“ was just a southern pride post civil war thing. Hell the damn flag wasn’t even really part of the confederacy and was just a battle flag. The stars and bars, which was more of a flag of the confederacy, like like a cross between and early Tennessean flag and the original flag of the US.

      But somewhere along the way it came to symbolize racist pieces of shit that wanted slavery to return.

      • HubertManne@kbin.social
        31·
        1 year ago

        Yeah there are so many things I thought pretty much gone in the world and woa suddenly they are back and folks are actually serious about it. Next up phrenology being a thing.