Originally published at: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declares a MAGA hat protected speech | Boing Boing
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MAGAts are the same arseholes who constantly complain about “woke” teachers bringing politics into the classroom. As always with the modern American right, it’s projection wherever one looks.
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Schools are definitely allowed to impose dress codes on students, why not on teachers. This includes a lot of free speech issues like shirts with words on them that are exactly equivalent to wearing a maga hat.
Bong hits for Trump!
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Meanwhile, in September…
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I’m sure he would have no problem with a BLM shirt in his classes, then. Right?
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I hear MAGA hats concentrate viruses and Carbon Dioxide gases dangerously close to the brain.
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Tasteless? Sure. Divisive? Definitely. Obnoxious? Absolutely.
But free speech? Undeniably.
We can’t have it both ways. If they won’t ban hats supporting Biden, they can’t ban the MAGA hat, despite its many negative and bigoted connotations.
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As long as it’s only men wearing them. If women start wearing a form of clothing more traditional for the opposite gender, it could lead to impressionable children being groomed into alternative lifestyles. /s
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Except many schools ban BLM, LGBTQ and other “statement” articles of clothing. As usual “free speech” is something applied to the right wing and no one else.
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I agree totally, and whenever I read stuff like this I’m reminded of many arguments with my kids and their ‘it’s all about me’ logic applied.
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Well…it is. We cannot forget the 1st amendment just because of the magafacists
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I don’t think, as other posts elaborate, first amendment is the point, it’s that these nuts only apply it when it suits.
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As a public school teacher, Dodge is a representative of the government, not a citizen. He is well within his rights to wear his MAGA hat to the grocery store or ball game, but he should not be allowed to wear it to school functions. If this is unclear, imagine a Klan hood instead. This seems like too clear a case for the 9th Circuit to screw up, so I suspect there are more details to the case not covered in this article.
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This!
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I think it’s a perfectly reasonable restriction that teachers, as representatives of the public school, should not display partisan swag at school functions, regardless of the ideology behind them. As has been pointed out elsewhere, displays of liberal icons have already been banned in many school districts. This looks like a case of “rules for thee, but not for me.”
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Agreed I will always err on the side of the stated intent of the 1st but as someone said he was present as a teach in the employ of the govt. that is worth a debat
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Fucking hell. From the article:
Jacobson wrote in his email to Alford that the picture "demonstrates a posture of morality and cultural acceptance contrary to that of Whitefield Academy’s beliefs” and, alluding to allegations of bad behavior in school on the part of her daughter, said it followed two years of “lifestyle violations.”
At least they’re honest that they don’t support morality and acceptance, I suppose.
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That’s different! You can’t humanize the marginalized people in America! That’s just unAmerican! /s
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Then that standard needs to be applied universally. The problem is, that same teacher is free to punish students who wear LGBTQ-themed apparel or BLM messages. Schools have expelled students for their own expressions of views. They have fired teachers for the same.
So the problem is that, as always, marginalized groups are punished for their expression while priviledged groups are not.
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This was at a school district cultural sensitivity training session. While the court may have bought the bullshit that the MAGA hat wasn’t meant to be disruptive, those of us who weren’t born yesterday reserve the right to not buy that bullshit.
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