What we have is Fox using a post by a Tik Tok user to stereotype liberals. It is a breathtakingly stupid argument. Stop digging.
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Have they? So, no one ever in the history of the United States voiced an objection to the Pledge?
If nothing else, this thread demonstrates that far too many have lost all perspective and/or sense of history. Perhaps that is what has actually changed.
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Well, maybe youāre right. Nothing ever changes.
DB2
I have never been on Tik Tok, much less scouring to find things to be upset about. I can find enough of those from the super-libs on this board. 
I was simply reacting to what actually happened and was posted, finding it sad.
Cheers!
Murph
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We are not talking legacy students. Who also just suddenly show up.
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I thought Tucker was fired?
Whatās sad to me is that an organization that claims to be a news agency made the assumption that āprogressivesā were horrified without providing any evidence. From a philosophical point of view I would have assumed Libertarians would have been most bothered by this display.
In addition, I seem to recall a bunch of conservative white people storming and defacing the U.S. capitol a year or so ago. Given that demonstrated hatred of America I think that demographic should always be among the first assumed guilty of an act considered unAmerican.
Finally, I have a sneaking suspicion that conservative media paid a lot more attention to this story than they did to the white guy who shot the black teenager who went to the wrong house. Tells you a bit about the current values of that particular political persuasion.
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Was the story justified in assuming that this user and supporters are āprogressiveā? Do you know their positions on tax policy, abortion, social safety nets or the other issues that define progressive political philosophy? If not, arenāt you guilty of spreading āfake newsā?
Seriously folks, isnāt stuff like this what is wrong with social media? Someone makes an unsupported allegation/generalization about a person or group and it gets amplified and spread because a lot of folks are too stupid or lazy to think critically. So they spread it around and say how sad it is and how much America has changed.
Thatās what is really sad.
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Back when I played, each sport/coach set their own rules. Football, had to play so many quarters, even if it was just one snap for an extra point. Basketball, no defined criteria, up to the coach. Track, had to accumulate so many points (points awarded for place in the event) over the season. Wrestling, so many wins and bonus for winning by pin. While no direct academic achievement recognized, you did have to maintain minimum GPA which was 2.0. A couple coaches made it 2.0 in "coreā classes, so no easy A in PE or Home Ec.
A few years after graduation, the school system did start having āacademic lettermenā, so you got the same jacket/letter as a ājockā. A nice recognition I think.
I was a 4 time lettermen (2 football, 2 basketball).
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So the āletterā or recognition means whatever they want it to mean? Wow! What a distinktion!
When I was in High School, chemistry, physics, drafting, electronics classes I took, were all electives. What is a ācoreā class in High School now, and is the teacher immune from pressure from the coach to pass his knuckle dragging cadre, regardless of their class performance?
Steve