High school student tells the Washington Post:
After I did that [tried to talk about America's foreign policy], I got accused of being anti-American and being a traitor. It's like no one can say that America is anything other than perfect.
But Brian Carnell makes the reasonable point the main lesson these kids seem to take from this is that they should have the right to say whatever they want, but that other people should not have the right to criticize them,
which is bad.
There's certainly a right to disagree, and a duty not to play by what Steven Den Beste calls Berkeley rules,
but it's not right to demonize these kids (or anyone) for thinking critically about our national policy.
[Katie] Sierra's mother pulled her out of school after the girl endured physical threats, taunting and accusations of "treason" from school board members when she went before them to protest her suspension [for wearing a t-shirt that read,When I saw the dead and dying Afghani children on TV, I felt a newly recovered sense of national security. God Bless America.]
