So you think there should be a law that school classrooms should be as bare and plain as a conservative Anabaptist church?
You and these various state legislatures should familiarize yourselves with something called the Streisand Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
And the absolutely hilarious part that illustrates the phenomenon:The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing public awareness of the information. The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress a photographer's publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, California, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.
Attempts to suppress information are often made through cease-and-desist letters, but instead of being suppressed, the information sometimes receives extensive publicity, as well as the creation of media such as videos and spoof songs, which can be mirrored on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks. In addition, seeking or obtaining an injunction to prohibit something from being published or to remove something that is already published can lead to increased publicity of the published work.
The Streisand effect is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, they are significantly more motivated to acquire and spread it.
In 2003, American singer and actress Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for US$50 million for violation of privacy. The lawsuit sought to remove "Image 3850", an aerial photograph in which Streisand's mansion was visible, from the publicly available California Coastal Records Project of 12,000 California coastline photographs, documenting coastal erosion and intended to influence government policymakers, of which the photograph of her residence was an overlooked and inconsequential tidbit of information. The lawsuit was dismissed and Streisand was ordered to pay Adelman's $177,000 legal attorney fees.
The same thing will happen here. All that will be achieved if conservative legislators try to ban various forms of rainbow flags is that they will only make them hugely more popular. Sales of rainbow t-shirts, rainbow socks, rainbow bandannas, rainbow stickers, etc. will go up. People will put up posters instead of flags, etc. etc."Image 3850" had been downloaded only six times prior to Streisand's lawsuit, two of those being by Streisand's attorneys. Public awareness of the case led to more than 420,000 people visiting the site over the following month.
Existing laws and common sense should have prevented flags+logos from being a problem - wrt GOV PROPERTY.
There is no state in the country in which public schools are STATE government property. That is the case in other countries but not here.temporal1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:05 pm All governments have rules/guidelines about their borders, property, uniforms, etc., it’s NOT “censorship.”
The pushback reflects poor reading skills, hubris, exaggerations, lies, bullying, etc.
It also reflects the disturbing level of entitlement certain groups have been allowed to acquire. No shame, no boundaries.
It’s hard to think of anything comparable.
This is what results when people sleep and trust others to take care of things.
The price comes due.
This has NOTHING to do with what’s popular.
It’s just basic housekeeping wrt what’s acceptable for GOV PROPERTY. Boring stuff.
Who are the foolish ones??
And your state is the creation of the Federal government. That doesn't mean the Federal government inserts itself into every aspect of state and local decision-making.
