Which is cool — as long as the “students” forgo all American taxpayer money …
The Associated Students of University of California, Irvine (ASUCI) voted Tuesday to remove all flags, including American flags, from an inclusive space on campus because of their offensive nature.
The bill, R50-70, was authored by Social Ecology Representative Matthew Guevara, and accuses all flags, especially, the American flag, of being “symbols of patriotism or weapons for nationalism.”
“[F]lags construct paradigms of conformity and sets [sic] homogenized standards for others to obtain which in this country typically are idolized as freedom, equality, and democracy,” the bill reads.
The legislation argues that flags may be interpreted differently; the American flag, for example, can represent “American exceptionalism and superiority,” as well as oppression.
“[T]he American flag has been flown in instances of colonialism and imperialism,” the bill continues, arguing that “symbolism has negative and positive aspects that are interpreted differently by individuals.”
And least you think that “inclusiveness” means in anyway tolerance of diversity of ideas, let’s put that to bed right now.
The anti-flag hanging bill adds that free speech, such as flags in inclusive spaces, can be interpreted as hate speech.
“[F]reedom of speech, in a space that aims to be as inclusive as possible[,] can be interpreted as hate speech,” the bill reads.
How special!
As a Californian, I’m really not too surprised by this. UCI has a rather sordid reputation.
Let’s just say where you find anti-semitism, you usually find anti-Americanism.
on several occasions at american rapeversities the flags have been used to bind the hands and feet of allegedly unwilling assault “victims” is my understanding
I blame an insufficient number of childhood beatings.
Or possibly the fact that we’ve societally decided it’d be rude or mean to tell people to “shove your ‘feelings’ up your ass.” Even if we’re trying to help!
What’s fun is how you can not hire not just one of these losers. You can not hire lots and lots and lots of these losers.
I’m trying to think of how many of these losers I can not hire and it seems as though I can not hire all of them.
Is my math wrong? Seems to me that I can not hire anyone who is totally useless. And then keep doing that over and over and over again.
Wait… is it possible to get in touch with the university so that I can not hire all of them at once?
In the future a robot will do this for me. But, until then, can I not hire all of them as some sort of batch job?
It seems you can predict the future based on the most radical of ideas presented in a seemingly-rational setting as a college campus. The 60’s were full of radical ideas that are now our reality. Who is to say that this insanity is not our future? Free speech = Hate speech. Dig it. I bet they would salute an ISIS flag, however.
Ungh.
**** According to some accounts, two famous flags were flown at the Battle of Bennington.
One, shown here, is called the Bennington Flag or the Fillmore Flag.
The story goes that Nathaniel Fillmore took this flag home from the battlefield, and the flag was passed down through generations of Fillmores, including Millard, and today it can be seen at Vermont’s Bennington Museum. Most experts doubt this story and date the flag to about 1820.
The other (not pictured) has a green field and a blue canton with 13 gold-painted stars arranged in rows.
General John Stark gave his New Hampshire troops a rallying speech that would be the envy of any football coach today. He said, “My men, yonder are the Hessians. They were brought for seven pounds and ten pence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight, the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!” ****
“[F]lags construct paradigms of conformity and sets [sic] homogenized standards for others….
…you see the flags are completely different than what rules on inclusive spaces do.
I swear I’m reading an Onion article. Parody amp is up to 11.
wanna bet this flag has no problem ?
Or this one either.
Thank goodness a decent number of college students get out of college and get kicked in the pants with reality.
Where is the National Guard, when we need them, pour encourager les autres?
You get the names and pictures of those on the ‘association.’
You post them on facebook and forward them to a bunch of corporations, asking if these are the kind of people you want to hire.
You push your representatives to see to it that said school loses all public funding.
Pushback. Bring back consequences.
Now, now, they are just being good little fascists. The progressives are proud to include them in their company.
they could throw the american flag down on the floor with a bunch of broken glass and tell some college chicks there’s gonna be free beer
bam someone’s getting laid
update: flag ban reversed
Vetoed, even. The student cabinet will surely be targets of a fatwa.