Footage went viral on Tuesday of 12-year-old Jaiden Rodriguez of Colorado Springs defying a catty school administrator’s orders to remove a backpack with a Gadsden Flag patch or be barred from going back to class. Jaiden, sporting a button-down shirt beneath his camouflage backpack, a sharp haircut, and a defiant smirk, can be seen patiently listening to his mom shut down the administrator’s contrived excuses.
Meet 12yo Jaiden who was kicked out of class yesterday in Colorado Springs for having a Gadsden flag patch, which the school claims has “origins with slavery.”
The school’s director said via email that the patch was “disruptive to the classroom environment.”
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— Connor Boyack 📚 (@cboyack) August 29, 2023
The contrast between the petty administrator and the middle-schooler couldn’t be more stark. One represents a class of power-hungry HOA president types whose greatest joy in the world is to use the government to make you do what they want you to, often because no one else in their lives will listen to them. These are the type of people who would track you down in the grocery store during the era of Covid mandates and shame you for not strapping toxic paper cancer receptacles to your face. They are the Fani Willises of the world, begging to be relevant and happy to bring the republic down in order to fulfill their girlboss fantasies. They might have an autistic teenager arrested because they get their feelings hurt. They would definitely livestream their
