Isn't this taking PC to far?

[easymoney]

Colorado High School Cancels Honor America Day Because It Might “Offend Immigrants”

Posted by admin / February 4, 2014

So, just about everyone who wants to celebrate what America was, land of the free and home of the brave, is very close to being considered “offensive” if they try to make some kind of display or celebrate their patriotism.

That is exactly what happened at Fort Collins High School in Fort Collins, Colorado when students tried to hold a spirit day honoring the United States of America. Students at the high school were told they could not have their celebration because the administration, “didn’t want to offend anyone from other countries or immigrants.”

I don’t know, gay pride parades in San Francisco, or abortion being pushed as a women’s rights issue, or same sex couples being married at the Grammy Awards, or the Constitution usurping, gun grabbing liberal laws inching their way into the public square, maybe all those things are offensive to some people as well, but we have to tolerate all those in the name of diversity and safety. But no, don’t anyone try to celebrate the actual substance of what our nation is supposed to be, don’t celebrate America because THAT, and that alone, might actually offend someone.

Guess what? I’m running out of ways to describe how offended I am.

Read more below from Fox News:

Students and parents at a Colorado high school are outraged after administrators turned down their request for a spirit week day honoring America because it might offend non-Americans.

“They said they didn’t want to offend anyone from other countries or immigrants,” a 16-year-old member of the student council told me. “They just really did not want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.”

The student council at Fort Collins High School had proposed having a day to celebrate the United States during next week’s Winter Spirit Week. The young people pitched “’Merica Monday” – and invited their classmates to dress in patriotic colors. Their proposal was promptly shot down by administrators.

“They said they didn’t want to be exclusive to any other country,” a 17-year-old member of the student council told me.

The students and parents who talked to me about this incident have asked to remain anonymous. The parents feared their children might face reprisals from liberal educators

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Some of the local news agencies in that area are reporting it a little differently-- after the fact:  http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25060372/fort-collins-high-school...

[AQUAMAN]

I think this stinks again of political correctness, over common sense and values as Americans. First, I think ALL people ought to recognize what the definition is of a country, then go from there: this applies to any country, not just the USA. There are three definitive requirements for any country: 1) borders, 2) language, and 3) culture. The USA borders are defined by border authorities, maps, boundaries, fences, walls, and the like. Our language is English, no other. Our culture is diverse ok, but, it's grounded in our founding fathers, the Constitution, our Bill of Rights, along with many laws, and the three levels of checks and balances, executive, legislative, and judicial. Most other countries on this earth do not promote such a grounding for it's inception and direction as our USA, therefore, people seek to come here. We extoll the most common and sought after freedoms and virtues on the planet, no doubt. We grant our precious freedoms to anyone willing to come here, as long as they comply with our rules, like any other country. Yes, we have guidelines, rules, and laws, to become American citizens, just like any other foreign citizen. Irregardless of these kids backgrounds of entry into the USA, their foremost allegiance must by definition, and, now as fellow Americans, be the common ground that we are ALL Americans, living in the USA. The old citizenship which we all left behind in other countries, must now be totally abandoned, and not promoted, glorified, nor publicized as what the future for the individuals life ahead must comply with. It would appear that our own school system and our own government has differing opinions on this now, and that in itself, will create an underbelly of people that will eventually, bring down what this nation thruout it's 250 year existence, is all about, and what made us special among the earth's inhabitants. To be patriotic to a foreign nation, over the USA, just because that's where you came from, were born, or where you think is better, is totally at odds of what we expect, and must always demand, of our fellow citizens. Any Patriotic school sponsored function, should always be favored to the country in which we reside, we pledge allegiance to the flag of the USA, none other. For those that think and want to do otherwise, I say forbid citizenship, as their heart and soul are not, and probably never will be as a true citizen of the USA. For the school system to deny this function in this manner, is not only hypocrisy, and unpatriotic, it's treason, to our own belief system, and to what we have stood side by side for centuries to protect from outsiders that would like us to be a split-nation of chaotic principles. Well, at least that's my take on this. I do suppose some will try to slander it into something totally bigoted or racist, but, we of all colors, religions, background, sexes, creeds, education, must align ourselves as one, and only one. Afterall, we as Americans believe in ourselves first, and foremost, and must stick together for the good of all. To teach otherwise, will result in our collapse in the end.

[easymoney]

English is not this country's language. Simply because we have never had a designated language, thanks to government.

[AQUAMAN]

Actually easy, I'm confused. Here's two links that one (2006) says yes, the newer one says no. So, anyone know which it is?