MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 days agoU.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'www.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square74linkfedilinkarrow-up1311arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.worldIndependent_Media@lemmy.today
arrow-up1309arrow-down1external-linkU.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'www.npr.orgMuskyMelon@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square74linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.worldIndependent_Media@lemmy.today
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoI hope current scouts in your country can still treat such things as normal. Here in the US, any patriotic symbolism has been taken by the crazies.
minus-squareDerpgon@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 hours agoThey still do! At least our center does. Other were saying it they do it as well, but that was about 10 years ago, and I hope they still do it. It is not treated as some kind of patriotism, it is merely to uphold the highest standard for a national symbol. But nobody here really treats it as overly dramatic or extreme.
I hope current scouts in your country can still treat such things as normal. Here in the US, any patriotic symbolism has been taken by the crazies.
They still do! At least our center does. Other were saying it they do it as well, but that was about 10 years ago, and I hope they still do it.
It is not treated as some kind of patriotism, it is merely to uphold the highest standard for a national symbol.
But nobody here really treats it as overly dramatic or extreme.