The latest outrage floating around the wingnut intertubes? Students at Fort Collins High School supposedly wanted to hold a day to honor America--but the libruls in the administration wing rejected it because they didn't want to offend students who didn't come from this country. Todd Starnes and Alex Jones took the story and ran with it after students complained.
But as always, the wingers always leave something out. It's not the idea that administrators turned down. It was the name of the proposed day.
The school drew rebuke this week from some community members and Fox News after it rejected a student council proposal to add " 'Merica Day" to its themed spirit-week events. Campus and school district officials said they rejected the use of " 'Merica" because it "is a slang term that is often used in a negative stereotypical way to describe life in the U.S."
Students offered "My Country Monday" as a compromise, and administrators agreed.
So the administration didn't want to perpetrate negative stereotypes about this country--and yet somehow that got twisted into being anti-American?
The students who originally proposed this offered "My Country Monday" as a compromise. According to the wingers, that day got kiboshed too--but apparently administrators actually accepted that proposal. Eventually, officials let Monday be "America Day."
Oh, those carnsarn facts ...