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Desensitization to guns (lemmy.world)

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[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

ATLA ironically may have desensitised me to the pledge thing by trying to show it as a creepy thing in the Fire Nation school. Instead, it just became part of the narrative flow, which was somewhat opposite the intent.

Then again, I've probably come to associate it with singing shitty school songs and national anthems in Australia anyway.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I hadn't said the (US) Pledge of Allegiance since the 1970s but I attended my local school board meeting last year and they kicked off with it. I couldn't even remember which fucking hand to put over my heart, let alone the actual words of it.

[–] YawningNostalgia@thelemmy.club 3 points 9 hours ago

I tried to refuse to say it because it was unconstitutional with the under God part and they made me do it anyway, which I tried to dispute because it has been upheld as a right under the First Amendment but I didn't really care enough to pursue it. That teacher was a geriatric veteran and would have been stubborn too.
It's burned into my brain now.