Teacher Forced Into Retirement Over Confederate Flag

The war of extermination against all things explicitly Southern is no longer in the headlines — yet it continues:

A teacher who displayed the Confederate flag to middle schoolers in his history class was forced to retire amid concerns that he was displaying a symbol of hate.

70-year-old Sutter Middle School (Folsom, CA) teacher Woody Hart hanged both a Confederate flag and a Union flag during his lesson on the Civil War.

The guy was just trying to teach a history class. But context doesn’t matter when it comes to “symbols of hate”:

“We recognize that regardless of context, to many of our students, families, and staff, the Confederate flag is a racist symbol of hate,” [a statement by the Folsom Cordova Unified School District] reads.

The forbidden flag was apparently discovered and removed before school even began, but nonetheless a student may have seen it and been traumatized by the reminder that going on 2 centuries ago there was such a thing as the Confederacy.

Any ideology, even a benevolent one, is terrifying when it achieves this extreme of intolerance — and liberalism is far from benevolent.

On a tip from Brian Boru.