re: #836 bratwurst

I think a school official making an attempt to defuse a potential confrontation is a far cry from “THEY ARE TRYING TO BAN THE FLAG ON CERTAIN DAYS!!!”. It is certainly possible that the official in question may have overreacted. Even so, people (like yourself) who try to spin this into something it isn’t are being willfully ignorant.

I think you are ignoring much of what has been said.

In his initial post, Charles seemed to think that ‘never wear American flag images on Cinco de Mayo’ is something we should all have learned in kindergarten. He implied that violating this prohibition is sufficient proof that the students intended to ‘create conflict and bad feelings’.

Unless the students and their parents are lying about what the principal and vice-principal said to them (which so far no one has claimed), the confrontation they feared was exactly that some students would try to violently enforce a ban on wearing American flag images.