Straight high schoolers with 'MAGA flags' disrupt LGBTQ club's first meeting

[Behind the Aegis]

Students in Bakersfield, California — a city of 380,000 110 miles north of Los Angeles — were attending the first meeting of Frontier High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance when students members of the Future Farmers of America club (FFA) confronted them holding “MAGA flags.” Some male and female FFA members held hands and yelled, “This is what’s right.”

The incident came to light after a concerned parent shared the story on social media. The parent wrote:

“Today I’m joining other angry parents of LGBT kids to see that something is done. My son says lately the tension at that school between FFA and any kids they’ve determined as “liberal.” The gay community there is apparently the one they’ve decided to mess with. Not my kid and his friends. I will not go down without a fight. I want these kids punished. So I’m hoping to pack away the chola that lives inside me and act like a reasonable 38-year-old but this is my kid.

The Kern High School District responded with the following statement:

“The Kern High School District and Frontier High School recognize that students have varying viewpoints and opinions. One of the goals of the educational process is to teach students how to communicate respectfully. The reported incident that occurred on Wednesday afternoon at Frontier High School is currently being investigated. Once the investigation is complete, appropriate follow-up measures will be taken.”

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[TexasTowelie]

1. I saw a different article on this incident last night.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/104021705

[Takket]

2. This is exactly why...

We have Pride Parades and a “straight pride parade” is stupid. No one shows up at a meeting of heterosexuals and chants that homosexuality is “what’s right”.

These kids AND THEIR PARENTS should have a Round table discussion with the LGBTQ kids/parents about how imposing their beliefs on others is Un-american. And if they still cannot respect others they should be expelled

[Mariana]

6. It is not the responsibility of the LGBTQ kids or their parents

to sit with these hateful people and discuss anything with them. This is happening at a school, so it is up to the school administration and the district to discipline the offenders, and to make the school environment safe for everyone.

[Maven]

7. +1

Skip the roundtable and go straight to punishment of those involved.

[Wounded Bear]

3. The Twitler Youth in action...

[rpannier]

4. Future Farmers of America club

If they aren't inheritors of a corporate farm they have no future in farming

[Siwsan]

5. Are we sure that "FFA" group wasn't the 'Future Fascists of America'??

Seems to fit, better.

[Mc Mike]

8. Nothing sez hatred and intolerance like Rump 2020.

Funny how they didn't internalize their orange hitler's post-Pulse shooting statements about 'supporting our beautiful gays'.

Almost like they knew he was lying and bullshitting, and they lol ed when they heard him say it.

Then kept right on backing him.

[cwydro]

9. Sickening.

Funny, I always though CA was supposed to be a liberal state.

[rollin74]

11. CA definitely has conservative areas

and millions of right-wingers

they’re just badly outnumbered these days

[RhodeIslandOne]

12. It is.

Statewide general elections where there isn't even a Republican on the ballot had led to the right wing riff raff getting angry.

[Iggo]

10. And that right there is what's wrong with "Straight Pride."

[lame54]

13. Straight should be in quotes