Students suspended from Canadian high school for refusing to wear rainbow poppy

Ron in Regina

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The site is incredibly flawed. You aren't allowed to discuss Politics or Religion. Your threads get locked or you get suspended if you bring up these topics.

I told the moderators they were turning us all into The Stepford Wives. We're treated like kids in kindergarten as opposed to intelligent adults who simply share the same affliction.
Holy Cow! What about discussing Anthropomorphic Global Warming/Cooling/Changing/Extreme'ing...(?)...as that's both politics & a religion?
Huh?

Do I owe you $10 or $50 for that bit of 'news'?
I have no idea what you're talking about, but lets split the difference and you can owe me $30 if you feel so inclined...?
 

Serryah

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I wear a poppy in honor of my grandfather, great uncle and others who served - and those who died - and for those who serve and die today.


I don't care if that poppy is rainbow, red, purple (color for the animals who died in service) or whatever.


The color doesn't matter to me.


The point BEHIND the poppy does.


Fuk anyone who tries to politicize Remembrance day, of ALL days. Fuk you very much.
 

pgs

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I wear a poppy in honor of my grandfather, great uncle and others who served - and those who died - and for those who serve and die today.


I don't care if that poppy is rainbow, red, purple (color for the animals who died in service) or whatever.


The color doesn't matter to me.


The point BEHIND the poppy does.


Fuk anyone who tries to politicize Remembrance day, of ALL days. Fuk you very much.
Our politicians will all be out in front of the cameras laying wreathes tomorrow morning .
 

Blackleaf

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Some Labour non-entity has attacked the Poppy Appeal.

Another reason why these anti-British Marxists aren't going to win the election.
 

Blackleaf

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Remembrance Sunday: Royal Family lead tributes to nation's war dead


The Duke of Cornwall


The Duchess of Sussex




All five surviving former PMs attended: Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron and May


PM Boris Johnson

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50362948
 

Ron in Regina

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Some Labour non-entity has attacked the Poppy Appeal.

Another reason why these anti-British Marxists aren't going to win the election.
I'm not trying to be a Arse, and I learn several new things everyday, but it's November 10th (not the 11th). I'm looking at the photo's you've posted and we won't even be doing this until tomorrow. Is this being celebrated where you are because it's the 10th, or because tomorrow (11th) isn't a holiday?
 

Blackleaf

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A DC3 Dakota 'War Horse' WWII plane was flanked by Spitfires as it made a drop of 750,000 poppy flowers over the Battle of Britain memorial next to the White Cliffs of Dover earlier today.

 

Blackleaf

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I'm not trying to be a Arse, and I learn several new things everyday, but it's November 10th (not the 11th). I'm looking at the photo's you've posted and we won't even be doing this until tomorrow. Is this being celebrated where you are because it's the 10th, or because tomorrow (11th) isn't a holiday?

It's Remembrance Sunday.

Watch the highlights of the annual Remembrance Sunday commemorations at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, including the moment when the nation stopped to mark the two-minute silence at 11am.

 
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Johnnny

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Here is the Moderator's response to me for questioning the Rainbow Poppy on my Mental Health Forum just before he suspended me...
LGBTQ people are not trying to hijack the poppy symbol or Remembrance Day. This is not a thing. You can read about it here 4. I have no idea where you get your news from, but I strongly suspect that wherever you read about this would be a very bigoted and pathetically unreliable news source. I urge you to fact check stuff you read online, and to reevaluate where you get your news from, like any responsible adult would do before they post potentially bigoted statements on an online support forum.
Also, the US military, and other countries’ militaries, have a long history of discriminating against LGBTQ people. This is something we should be allowed to talk about without close-minded people whining about how it paints an unflattering picture of the military. Talking about this does not detract from vets, from Remembrance Day or from the poppy symbol. It is not “sexual politics” - and neither is the pride flag. If you find the idea that some people might possibly want to combine a symbol for how they had to fight for their rights with a symbol for how they had to fight for their country offensive, then you’re the one who needs to get over yourself.
You’re walking a fine line here and I will be keeping an eye on you. Please at least try to be respectful of LGBTQ people.
See what I'm dealing with here, folks? The dude isn't dumb...just terribly misguided and condescending in my opinion. .

If you were polite in your criticism and encouraged debate about the topic then the moderators are idiots.
 

Hoof Hearted

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I have a very narrow hallway of Schizophrenia, in that I've never hallucinated or heard voices...but I get the delusions of reference and delusions of persecution in spades when I go loco.

But my point is, I'm a reasonably intelligent adult with an occasional affliction. I don't need to be coddled or scolded or given 'time outs' from my Mental Health Forum. The fascist moderators are destroying the forum, and I'm considering never returning to it.

(Rant Over)
 

Johnnny

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I have a very narrow hallway of Schizophrenia, in that I've never hallucinated or heard voices...but I get the delusions of reference and delusions of persecution in spades when I go loco.
But my point is, I'm a reasonably intelligent adult with an occasional affliction. I don't need to be coddled or scolded or given 'time outs' from my Mental Health Forum. The fascist moderators are destroying the forum, and I'm considering never returning to it.
(Rant Over)

All good.

I was banned from the ADHD forum years back for posting my experiences living life unmedicated. I encouraged people to bring more structure into their lives and to learn more coping mechanisms as opposed to relying 100% on medication.

I was banned for trying to ruin people's lives I was told
 

Hoof Hearted

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I'd rather keep that private, but it's basically a forum for anyone who has suffered a psychosis of any kind. It has members from all over the world. I've met some fascinating people on that site, as well as several knuckleheads...it is what it is.
 

Walter

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I have a very narrow hallway of Schizophrenia, in that I've never hallucinated or heard voices...but I get the delusions of reference and delusions of persecution in spades when I go loco.

But my point is, I'm a reasonably intelligent adult with an occasional affliction. I don't need to be coddled or scolded or given 'time outs' from my Mental Health Forum. The fascist moderators are destroying the forum, and I'm considering never returning to it.

(Rant Over)
Bye.
 

Cannuck

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I have a very narrow hallway of Schizophrenia, in that I've never hallucinated or heard voices...but I get the delusions of reference and delusions of persecution in spades when I go loco.
But my point is, I'm a reasonably intelligent adult with an occasional affliction. I don't need to be coddled or scolded or given 'time outs' from my Mental Health Forum. The fascist moderators are destroying the forum, and I'm considering never returning to it.
(Rant Over)

If you post the same types of stupidity on a serious forum as you do here, in not surprised they sent you on vacation
 

Danbones

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They might just as easily kick out the apartheid.
;)
That is considered a mental defect too.


Apartheid as a public mental health issue.

The most serious hazard to the physical and mental health of the majority rural poor black population in South Africa is caused by the ruling wealthy white minority's policy of apartheid.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4055186

Pubmed(.GOV) - (NCBI) top of the heap in medical publishing.