"This is not what America's about. We have a president that is proclaiming executive orders trying to erase trans people from existence, and you say that the American flag includes everyone. For over 100 years, the American flag stood for slavery, and we had a war to fix that. For 90 years after that, it stood for segregation, and people took to the streets to get rid of that."
""mean," "small," "ignorant," and "pathetic.""
A six-hour city council meeting in Aliso Viejo ended in the early hours of Thursday with the defeat of a proposal to ban all flags on city property except the American flag. The proposal, advanced by council member Mike Munzing and backed initially by two far-right colleagues, specifically targeted the Pride flag. A standing-room-only audience provided testimony, with 164 speakers opposing the ban and 13 supporting it. Tensions peaked when Munzing shredded the proposed ordinance. Speakers condemned the proposal with strong language, and prominent local voices argued that flying the Pride flag signals inclusion and opposes discrimination.
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