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    Professors: US flag symbolizes racism, should not be displayed on campus

    A group of university professors has signed a letter showing their solidarity with students who tried to ban the American flag at the University of California, Irvine – because they said Old Glory contributes to racism.


    “U.S. nationalism often contributes to racism and xenophobia, and that the paraphernalia of nationalism is in fact often used to intimidate,” read a letter obtained by the website Campus Reform.


    A group of Californian lawmakers is working on a bill that that would prohibit publicly funded universities from banning the American flag.


    Hundreds across the nation have signed the letter – including some U.C. Irvine professors, Campus Reform reported.


    "We admire the courage of the resolution's supporters amid this environment of political immaturity and threat, and support them unequivocally" the letter stated.


    How those professors can sleep at night knowing their salaries are paid for by a bunch of xenophobic racists is beyond me.


    On March 3 the U.C. Irvine student government association voted 6-4-2 to remove Old Glory from a campus lobby for the sake of cultural inclusivity.


    The un-American knuckleheads blathered on about how "the American flag has been flown in instances of colonialism and imperialism."


    Breitbart quoted an unnamed student who said the student government association feared the flag might hurt the feelings of illegal aliens.


    “There were people who were like, ‘the flag triggers me’ – that was their exact wording, too,” the student said.


    Over the weekend, the executive leadership of student government met and vetoed the legislation and by Monday the flag was once again posted in the campus lobby.


    “Our campus is patriotic and proud,” student government President Reza Zomorrodian told me. “We did something right for our campus.”


    A March 10th legislative meeting to discuss the controversy was canceled after the university received a “viable threat of violence.”


    While the threat was not specific, university officials said they were taking the threat seriously and urged students to be diligent.


    “Regardless of your opinion on the display of the American flag, we must be united in protecting the people who make this university a premier institution of higher learning,” Chancellor Howard Gillman wrote in a statement posted on the university’s website.


    Meanwhile, a group of Californian lawmakers is working on a bill that that would prohibit publicly funded universities from banning the American flag.


    Here's how it should work: you ban the flag -- we ban your student loans.


    I'm old school. Where I come from, you salute Old Glory, you don't toss it in a closet. You don't ban it.




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    So let me get this straight. Someone took down the flag in the council lobby and wrote an anonymous note saying "this shouldn't be in the lobby" and put the note with the flag in the Council President's Office. Although the President likes the flag in the lobby and put it back, a resolution from the Legislative Body to ban all flags came about, based on the action of an anonymous person who wrote an anonymous note.

    It's time for the Provocateur to show himself or herself and address his/her reasons a) why he/she hates America and b) why he/she didn't sign their name to the note.

    The flag is very important to the American people for valid reasons. This flag symbolizes the soul of our country that fueled our revolution and independence from England. This flag represents a nation of people who from its beginning risked everything including their lives and property for freedom and the right to be left alone. Descendants of these people carried this flag during the bloodiest war ever fought by Americans a few decades later to guarantee that freedom and right to be left alone for black Americans held in bondage and end slavery in the United States, the only nation in the history of the world to fight a civil war to end slavery. This flag probably carries as much meaning to tens of millions of Europeans, Chinese, Russians, North Africans, Filipinos, Vietnamese and Koreans who every day of that war waited for the Americans to get to them. And other times for other people before and after WWII and yes even to this day.

    So to the Professors who "signed the letter", condemning our flag as a symbol of "nationalism", "racism" and "xenophobia", this is your display of courage, this is your example of valiance, this is your contribution to world peace? Really? Without even knowing your names, who you are or where you're from, whether from here or over there somewhere, this flag that you're condemning represents the courage and valiance of a nation that guarantees your right to condemn it and the only reason there is world peace.

    This flag also assures your right to make utter Jack Asses out of yourselves, disgrace your employer, misguide the students you're paid to teach, and generate the contempt you so richly deserve.
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    I am old school too. It is time to defund schools with professors that debunk our nation. Git'er done!

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    These haters of American need to go back home and today is not soon enough...

    If they don't like the Flag of this nation then they should go back where they came from, we are one nation under God and our American Flag as well...eat our American dirt too !!!

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