"see, we're not racist"

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I remember sitting for the pledge a lot in school, high school and literally nothing happening to me or anyone else. And this was in and around 9/11 so the height of early aughts patriotic-fascism that was sweeping the nation.

    • Flinch [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Some chud kid who's dad was a boot or something attacked me for not standing for the pledge in high school. Something something freedom, something something freedom-and-democracy

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      I had an adult who wasn’t even a teacher, he was a teaching assistant, scream in my face when I was 16 for not standing for the pledge. The teacher had to tell him to chill the fuck out, if I remember right she sent him out of the room for basically a timeout, a man 10 years older than her.