This is getting to be too much

[Redondo]

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

[Ray McKigney]

Deport them.  

[deepdrive]

We really need to re-examine the process by which those people that teach young minds are selected.

 

Of course, I went to UC Santa Cruz and this kind of dipshit mentality was pervasive with the courdoroy jackets with elbow patch wearing professors.

 

lol

[Tank]

It comes off looking extremely unpatriotic to try and ban the flag. It also comes off looking insulting to those who served and died under the flag to give us the way of life we all enjoy now.

That said, the freedoms represented by the flag include the freedom to disagree. To portray the flag only as a symbol of aggression and racism isn't accurate at all.

It's extremely bad form for any leadership body to vote on things like this as a matter of policy. If you don't want to fly the flag, then don't fly it.

[Adam]

Self-important assholes. There are way better arguments to ban the flag than this one.

[CaliAngel]

We really need to re-examine the process by which those people that teach young minds are selected.

 

Of course, I went to UC Santa Cruz and this kind of dipshit mentality was pervasive with the courdoroy jackets with elbow patch wearing professors.

 

Awesome. My brother went to UC Santa Cruz too, and dealt with that too. He was one of like 5 in his class who graduated with a math degree. My family (including me) went up there for his graduation for a weekend, and holy hell that place is a shithole. Yeah he dealt with the hipster mentality, and has also incorporated a good part of that into his life. To be a Santa Cruz lifer though? Nah, he came back to Orange County to teach at a major University.

 

Just to add, my brother is a homosexual, so these types of "rebellions" and "protests" you might think would be right up his alley. But hell no. The kid loves this country and the opportunities he is given, and when he hears crap like this he just wants to throw up. Freedom of speech, freedom of rights, these are all things he loves and I also agree with. But the hate mongering of the flag or of the United States he does not tolerate. That flag has given him what he has, it has infused tolerance, and to refuse it's display is complete disrespect for not only the people who have given us what we have, but also disrespects the ability for us to live like we do.

 

I don't know what these people are trying to prove, but that flag will never mean "racism" or "intolerance" or "homophobic" to me. It's sad that some have stooped to that level to accommodate whatever propaganda they are trying to push.