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[–] mizuki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

God I hate living in Utah.

[–] a_astra@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Whole world is going crazy like that nazi/right way. Not just Utah. There is no place to escape. We should be strong and withstand these "tests" of our worldview.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 days ago

Approved flags for display in government buildings and schools would include the Utah state and U.S. flags, military flags, flags for other countries, flags for Native American tribes and official flags for colleges and universities. The bill also allows for the flying of a “historic version of a flag ... that is temporarily displayed for educational purposes,”

So, fuck it, every school in Utah should do a special educational bit about the history of the city of Cusco between 1978 and 2021..

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago

If you read both the linked story and its update you will see a good example of how the press is supposed to interact with power. In sharp relief to the cringing fawning appeasement we see the mainstream press engaging in with this criminally insane presidential administration.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

I’d imagine the armbands will be next.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing that soon it might even be obligatory to wear certain arm bands, maybe of the yellow kind? Adorned with a pretty star, perhaps?

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

'Pink triangle on her sleeve, let me know the truth, let me know the truth...'

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

.... And so there were swastika flags too, here is one! let me wave it around so that you can imagine how it was to live in nazi Germany! Now when these flags were flying it would be customary to make an official greeting to the one true savior, der Fuhrer ~~musk~~ Hitler, here, let me show you how

I'm fucking bracing myself for WWIII, these fuckers will start it

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 226 points 1 week ago (4 children)

“There are instances where in classrooms, you have curriculum that is needed to use flags such as World War II, Civil War,” he said. “You may have a Nazi flag. You may have a Confederate flag, and so you are allowed to display those flags… as part of the curriculum, and that is okay.”

There are no such instances. Students are fully capable of learning about the Confederacy and the Nazis without those actual flags being present in the classroom. They know this, so there must be some other reason they're pushing this bill.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 129 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I dunno, man, I didn't understand the Holocaust at all until my teacher starved some students to death and tossed them in an oven.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if this were to actually happen, I'm positive some people still wouldn't get it

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They'd just do what they've been trained to do since 2016. "Fake news! Fake news!"

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They're also admitting that they don't teach anything about LGBTQ+ at all in any realm. Not health class, civics, history, art, nothing.

[–] mizuki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 days ago

As a high schooler in Utah, this is true. There's essentially zero mention of the community even existing, except for certain classes where it inevitably comes up (like current issues), and even then only certain teachers will approach those topics, and it's definitely not part of their curriculum.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I had friends raised in Utah. This is true. You might get a week-long unit at the high school, but otherwise, unless you have a GSA club, LGBTQ+ history is muffled.

But oohhhh, they'll talk about Pioneer History every year in History class.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honest question: is there any other state/region in the world where a cult has unbridled power?

Utah boggles my mind.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 days ago

Iran. North Korea. Russia.

"Congratulations" for joining that party.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

They didn't teach anything LGBTQ+ related in NJ schools from the 90's to 00's that I remember.

To be fair, the LaserActive was a pretty cool system.

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[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"You may have a Nazi flag. You may have a confederate flag... "

I mean, hey, who doesn't for just such an occasion?

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[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 96 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, ok. So not even pretending to hide it anymore. I fucking hate this country.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Why would they hide it? The more they flaunt, the more their base is emboldened. Turns out people fucking love evil.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I firmly believe this is because we've lost almost all of our world war two veterans. These shitlords kept it under wraps all these years because deep down, they knew pap paw would 100% get up out of his wheelchair to kill one last Nazi.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

I think we know the solution then.

Be like pap paw

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do they also salute the flag with a musk salute?

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think calling it a Musk Salute might actually be a great idea if the media is so unwilling to call it a Nazi Seig Heil.

Call it a Musk Salute to the Nazi flag.

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[–] yarr@feddit.nl 52 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is some BS man. He's saying you can fly the Nazi flag because it's "historic". Well, hell, isn't the gay pride flag historic? Good luck getting a definition out of these fucks. If he could write the law he really wanted to write it would say "keep off any flags I don't agree with".

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Technically, if something happened yesterday, it is also historic.

More along the lines of not wanting kids to know or being exposed to lgbtq culture, but he is fine with kids knowing about and being exposed to Nazi culture

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

by historic he means it's part of their history. sorry but this is some "that's our heritage" bullshit. they allow it cause they identify with it. they don't like the pride flag because identifying with that is scary to them.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

It's been a unit battle flag more than once iirc.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

I only read the listing in the comment and that says "any historic version". I don't think the pride flag fits that description since it's not an old version of any of the other listed categories, no matter how historic it is in itself.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

That's because love and compassion for others is obviously evil.
While hatred and oppression of minorities is good and righteous.

But of course you have to be an idiot to understand that, so you probably don't.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 24 points 1 week ago

The only reason to have a nazi flag in a school curriculum, is to learn how to tear it down and rip it in two.

https://infosec.pub/post/22663267

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Racism, bigotry, and polygamy.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's because Republicans are NOT Nazis!

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You know how people say the fact that we never excised confederates/slavery from amongst us has led to modern issues? Well, the same holds true of Mormons. Most Americans have no idea the level of money, clout, and insane shit based in Utah. For example, I bet you didn't know the Mormon church owns approximately 1 in every ~550 acres of privately-held land in the United States. Warning: the Mormon bullshit rabbit hole is deeper than you can imagine and may cause you to start writing a years-long book project, in my experience. You've been warned!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Mormonism is America's future. It's the prosperity gospel attached to a powerful lobbying contingent that exists to perpetuate MLM schemes.

If you think things are bad now, wait until Mormons are fully in control of California.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

That's a strange veer towards a completely unrelated topic... But anyway, considering that roughly 1 in 100 people are Mormon in the US, it's not that surprising that 1 in 550 of the land also is. It's surprising they're trailing so far behind the average actually.

EDIT: oh wait, you mean the church owns it. Yeah, ok, that is very weird. But Mormonism is a very weird thing by definition...

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Yeah, that's church-owned. But does raise the interesting point of prominent Mormon billionaires/CEOs. And investment firms. And investments. And their history with the federal government/Republicans. And...

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Holy christ on a pogo stick, I had no idea on the population stats for mormon's. We really are a stupid species lol. I had a good neighborhood friend growing up who's family was mormon, didn't persay have anything against the religion then but later found out about all the racists connotations and how members are treated. If anyone wants to learn more there's a good Ex mormon vid going over the southpark mormon episode and the religion etc.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago
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