{"id":1383159,"date":"2022-03-16T07:27:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T11:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1383159"},"modified":"2022-03-16T07:37:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T11:37:29","slug":"aft-president-randi-weingarten-posts-we-stand-with-ukraine-photo-with-upside-down-ukrainian-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aft-president-randi-weingarten-posts-we-stand-with-ukraine-photo-with-upside-down-ukrainian-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"AFT President Randi Weingarten Posts \u201cWe Stand With Ukraine\u201d Photo With Upside Down Ukrainian Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faft-president-randi-weingarten-posts-we-stand-with-ukraine-photo-with-upside-down-ukrainian-flag%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1383159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Executive Vice President Evelyn DeJesus posed with a Ukrainian flag poster emblazoned with the words &#8220;We stand with Ukraine,&#8221; and an AFL-CIO logo. The only problem is the flag was printed upside down. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s flag has blue on top, and yellow at the bottom, representing the sky and wheat. The country is known as Europe&#8217;s bread basket. The flag symbolizes a blue sky over a field of wheat. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>This was a major clout fail for the union heads, who represent some 12.5 million American educators. Many found it hard to believe that Weingarten, DeJesus, and the AFT itself could possibly be involved in the educations of millions of American school children when they couldn&#8217;t even print a foreign flag for a country they allegedly &#8220;stand with&#8221; correctly.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a great advertisement to homeschool your kids.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1503926856763916291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) posted to the photo to their Twitter account, showing that at no step of the production process, from design through printing to posting, did anyone at the AFT take a look and realize they were making a literal false flag.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">These are the leading \u201ceducators\u201d in America. See the problem? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iB3wuHBjjX\">https:\/\/t.co\/iB3wuHBjjX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Support Independent Media (@BarrettWilson6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarrettWilson6\/status\/1503923558732509186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Despite many across social media pointing to the obvious mistake, the AFT did not issue a correction, or take it down. DeJesus&#8217; Twitter profile has an &#8220;I Stand with Ukraine&#8221; logo, which was correct, with blue above and yellow below. Oddly, she did not appear to notice the discrepancy.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><figcaption>From DeJesus Twitter bio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re in such a rush for social clout you get the flag upside-down,&#8221; John Cooper said, communications director at Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When you\u2019re in such a rush for social clout you get the flag upside-down.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Cooper (@thejcoop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1503903612103278595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>The obvious metaphor for America&#8217;s failing schools was plain to see.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for explaining why our schools have failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/themarketswork\/status\/1503898528053018624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>School choice advocate Corey DeAngelis, who believes parents should be able to apply their education tax dollars to whatever school they choose, noted that this was a clear advertisement for his cause.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">free advertising for school choice<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeAngelisCorey\/status\/1503919027059666950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>According to ATF&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aft.org\/about\/mission\">website<\/a>, &#8220;The American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>They apparently are not versed in foreign flags, or even how to do a quick search on the internet.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Later, it appears that a correction to the posters was made, with the posters reversed, and the words pasted over in the correct position.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the AFL-CIO executive council and 12.5 million members across the country, we <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StandWithUkraine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StandWithUkraine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1u?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1u<\/a> ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pIiMMKmtYP\">pic.twitter.com\/pIiMMKmtYP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AFL-CIO ? (@AFLCIO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFLCIO\/status\/1503918799304732676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Executive Vice President Evelyn DeJesus posed with a Ukrainian flag poster emblazoned with the words &#8220;We stand with Ukraine,&#8221; and an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}