Which of the following should kids be allowed to wear on clothes to school?

[DownWithTheLeft]

Everything but the GBLT rainbow (for the student's safety) and the Islamic crescent (same reason)

[DownWithTheLeft]

Everything but the GBLT rainbow (for the student's safety) and the Islamic crescent (same reason)

You think wearing a GLBT rainbow will endanger a student's safety more than wearing a swastika?

I'd say my school is incredibly homophoic and there are really no openly gay kids if any at all.  There are a lot of openly anti-semetic kids.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Everything but the GBLT rainbow (for the student's safety) and the Islamic crescent (same reason)

dude, the Hammer and Sickle is way worse than either.

I think they should be allowed to wear anything that won't blatently cause controversey.  I know a kid who has a backpack with a hammer and sickle (he didn't even notice it or know what it was til I pointed it out), did nothing.  The two things I mentioned would cause huge problems.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Everything but the GBLT rainbow (for the student's safety) and the Islamic crescent (same reason)

You think wearing a GLBT rainbow will endanger a student's safety more than wearing a swastika?

I'd say my school is incredibly homophoic and there are really no openly gay kids if any at all.  There are a lot of openly anti-semetic kids.

You go to a pretty f**ked up school, then, if being gay is worse than being a Nazi.

Sounds like a typical American high school to me.

I voted to ban the symbols I disliked and allow the symbols I like.

So let me guess, you voted to allow the:

x-ed out swastika
hammer and sickle
x-ed out Islamic crescent
x-ed out Christian cross
x-ed out Republican elephant
Democratic donkey
x-ed out confederate flag
a GLBT rainbow

Am I right?

Yea, except for the GLBT rainbow and you forgot a few, I explained my reasoning

[DownWithTheLeft]

I think what should be accepted depends on the area, what flies somewhere might not fly somewhere else.  Ex., if you live in Provincetown, MA, wearing a GBLT rainbow would be normal and a Confederate flag would be crazy.  However, the reserve is opposite in the Deep South.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Context, angus, context.

For your friend to wear a swastika is clearly appropriate, given that it's a positive symbol of his religion (I can only assume).  I would expect - or at least hope - that most people would understand this upon seeing it on him.  However, for BRTD to include this option in his poll, he was clearly talking about the 'other' meaning of the swastika symbol, which the stereotype will associate with a skin head, antisemitic epithets, etc.  And if a kid actually behaves like that, then yeah, he or she will get exactly what's coming to them.  And no, you'll have no sympathy from me.  Especially since this child is hypothetical.

Joe are you a Nazi?

[DownWithTheLeft]

Context, angus, context.

For your friend to wear a swastika is clearly appropriate, given that it's a positive symbol of his religion (I can only assume).  I would expect - or at least hope - that most people would understand this upon seeing it on him.  However, for BRTD to include this option in his poll, he was clearly talking about the 'other' meaning of the swastika symbol, which the stereotype will associate with a skin head, antisemitic epithets, etc.  And if a kid actually behaves like that, then yeah, he or she will get exactly what's coming to them.  And no, you'll have no sympathy from me.  Especially since this child is hypothetical.

Joe are you a Nazi?

Uh... no?  Wtf?

The way you wrote that was kind of weird, you talked about a Nazi kid and then said he was only hypothetical with a smily that I took to mean he was real.  My bad