Missouri student loses driving rights for flying Confederate flag

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25. I disagree with the school

I am not an ACLU liberal only when it suits me.

And yes, that flag is RACIST AS FUCK. That's what makes it controversial, and civil rights only apply to things that are controversial because things that are not controversial require no protection.

The school's argument is probably that the symbol creates racial tension and would threaten order. (Even incite violence.) And that's not an unreasonable line of argument.

And the parking lot is part of the school... but to say you can drive the car anywhere you want but then can't park it at school is, quite literally, "shedding their constitutional rights when they enter the schoolhouse door" (except not literally making it to the door) which is the guts of the supreme court decision that bears on this.

When the supreme court said that students could wear armbands to protest the Vietnam war that also created tension and incited violence (for real -- it was a passionate issue), but I supported it at the time and still do.

This case has some valid arguments on both sides, but the real bottom line is that if the state that controls what kind of car decorations you can drive on the roads with says this is okay for a car then this is just the nature of the student's car. He's a creepy RW kid and his car has a confederate flag on it.