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Iowa Bill Would Force Students To Sing Anthem Daily
What is with the forced patriotism of the right? They want no independent thought, just everyone marching in lockstep. It doesn’t install a love of country to force someone to say the Pledge of Allegiance, nor by making them sing a song, just like forced morning prayers never made kids religious. If it is illegal to force kids to stand and say the pledge, it has to also be illegal to make them stand and sing the national anthem. Notice the other things this guy wants, no same-sex marriages and no trans people. Is this because he is a fundamentalist religious person? A fundie? Is this what he thinks is patriotic because in church everyone is required to do group think and never question the leader? Hugs. Scottie
Des Moines’ ABC affiliate reports:
A new bill in the Iowa House of Representatives would make it a legal requirement for public school students and teachers in grades 1-12 to sing the national anthem. The proposed bill passed the subcommittee in a 2-1 vote. The bill would mandate students to sing the anthem at least once a day and for social studies classes to teach about the meaning and history of the national anthem. Physically able students would need to “stand at attention” and “remove any headdress that is not being worn for religious purposes.”
Des Moines’ NBC affiliate reports:
Connie Ryan, Executive Director of the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, compared it to what Adolph Hitler did when he took power in Germany. “Adolph Hitler became the chancellor of Germany in January 1933 and made a national anthem required for all students, all people to know, to be able to sing, to sing it at the same tempo. There were lots of different requirements the Nazis put on that,” Ryan said. “That is not my idea of a free democracy, and I would urge us to oppose this legislation simply on those grounds.”
The bill’s author, Rep. Skyler Wheeler [photo], last appeared here in March 2023 when he sponsored a bill to place a ban on same-sex marriage in the state constitution in case Obergefell ever gets overturned. Wheeler is also the author of recent anti-trans legislation.
It amazes me how awash with jingoism the USA is
It amazes me how awash with jingoism the USA GOP is.
It’s like there is one great wave of self-delusion going on, whether the use of terminology, ‘patriots’, chants of USA/USA, or the interminable flags that appear compulsory behind every moron running for election.
It’s all a charade of how united we are, when the exact opposite is the truth.
Or the mandatory flag lapel pins. Put one on and — bingo! — you’re a patriot!
On display with all the politicians.
How very postmodern of them — style over substance.
It’s been like this my whole life. We did all this crap when I was in elementary school. We said the pledge of allegiance and some other crap. Texas even has a pledge to the state flag that a lot of kids say. (It’s dumb. It’s something like “Honor the Texas flag.” I might be misremembering. It wasn’t interesting enough to commit to memory verbatim.)
Reminder, Iowa Republicans are against feeding poor students but this they’re for.
Eat the anthem, kids. It’s zero calories!
^^^THIS^^^ It’s the Republican simple-minded, no-cost solution to “fixing our schools
You forgot bringng back the Lord’s Prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance. But, fuck any book that mentions slavery, or the Native American genocide, or segregation, etc
I was immediately reminded of how the Nazi’s quickly took over Germany – this is indoctrination. Period.
Children are just easily programmable accessories to Republicans. And practically slaves in Arkansas.
Forcing patriotism is not the way to inculcate loyalty to the nation by the young.
Nothing makes someone dislike doing something more than compelling them to do so.
I’m sick of these people using our symbols as props.
I despise that they’ve turned the US flag into something I have a visceral negative response when I see it displayed.
Why, when, how did the US flag become a symbol of christian nationalism and fascism? It has been co-opted by the right as if waving the flag demonstrates only their “patriotism” to the exclusion of all others.
For me, it’s Trump’s mugging for the cameras as he hugs the flag, and the faux patriotism of many who wave it, that triggers strong, negative feelings. The ultimate though has to be the girl at the Trump rally wiping her nose with it. The people who have turned it into a wearable commodity sicken me.
Republicans have been doing this schtick of pretending they’re more patriotic than anyone else for a long time. What they really are is isolationists, nationalists, and fascists.
Ridiculous people and their ridiculous rules.
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Bob Marley – Three Little Birds (Everything’s Gonna Be Alright)
Randy has been worried about me lately, he has seen my posting drop off, my replies to comments be late. He was worried I might be getting depressed or overwhelmed. So being the grand friend he is, he sent me this song. Ron has both Bob Marley and the happy songs channels on his music subscriptions. The lyrics are on the YouTube page. Thank you Randy. Hugs. Scottie
Bob Marley and the Wailers performing Three Little Birds. From the album Exodus. (C) 1980 Tuff Gong
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“Dixie” (Union Version) – Union Civil War Song
Wow another song I never heard and yet really like. Great message in this one. Hugs. Scottie
The song “Dixie” was the composed by Daniel Decatur Emmett and acted as an unofficial anthem for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Union Dixie is a version by the north that mocks the Confederacy, saying that they are “traitors,” overrun by “rattlesnakes and alligators” and asserting that the Union will be victorious, and “each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam.” This version is performed by Tennessee Ernie Ford.
I never seen or heard this, and I love it
Glynis Johns has died at 100. She appeared in many different things, but probably most notably as Mrs Banks in Mary Poppins. Stephen Sondheim wrote Send in the Clowns with her in mind.
Glynis Johns and Len Cariou recreate the “Send in the Clowns” scene and song from the end of A Little Night Music.
Court: Teacher Fired Over Dolly/Miley Song Can Sue
Think about the line that the school claims is unacceptable. “Wouldn’t it be nice to live in paradise… where we’re free to be exactly who we are.” That is what the school district finds so unacceptable. Why? It must be something to do with demanding everyone must live by the church doctrines of the minority. Hugs. Scottie
Courthouse News reports:
A federal court in Wisconsin declined to dismiss a teacher’s First Amendment retaliation claim against the school district that fired her for publishing a tweet critical of its decision to prohibit her first-graders from singing “Rainbowland” by Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton at a school concert. She has shown that her employment was terminated for exercising her First Amendment rights, so her claim survives the motion.
Read the full article.
Singing “wouldn’t it be nice to live in paradise where we’re free to be exactly who we are” is controversial? TWF??
Any idea that brings White Christian Supremacy into question is automatically controversial.
Freedom for Me, Not for Thee!
Fuckers.
We just want things to be the way they used to be — when you people were invisible and uppity brown folk knew how to hold their tongue. Just like white Jesus promised. Merry Christmas!
& the women folk knew their place.
Watch your tongue woman!
That right, talking furniture needs to learn its place. /s
Because fascists love to be in everyone face and refuse to be ignored.
My “Big Picture” thought is, who in the world thinks Dolly Parton could sing a mean spirited or inappropriate song that would somehow damage a child?
Oh, it’s much worse than that. The lyrics also say, “We are rainbows, me and you, rvery color, every hue,” and if that isn’t a direct call out to CRT, I don’t know what is. They might as well have said slavery is bad or something else equally controversial to the snowflake replubican’ts.
Because of course –
“In her lawsuit, Tempel says that although Sebert announced in August 2021 that the policy would equally ban signs, flags and materials promoting causes like Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter, signs saying “Students for Life” and “Thin Blue Line” were permitted to be displayed in school common areas while Gay-Straight Alliance locker signs and signs stating, “this classroom is anti-racist” and “this school welcomes you” were prohibited.”
“this school welcomes you” were prohibited”
Shaking my fucking head.
I was thinking of the photo of the Wisconsin HS students giving the Nazi salute in their class photo. The only one who wouldn’t was the gay gentleman in the top right corner, who was rightly disgusted.
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