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RunForTheRoses
03-07-2015, 11:43 AM
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6335
Clocker
03-07-2015, 12:01 PM
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 anti-flag hanging bill adds that free speech, such as flags in inclusive spaces, can be interpreted as hate speech.
Social Ecology? that guy has a great career path ahead of him.
Free speech is hate speech. Ignorance is strength. War is peace. And we certainly don't want any symbols of patriotism in a environment of higher education.
America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. -- Stalin
Nothing retards free thinking like a university.
sandpit
03-07-2015, 10:57 PM
Idiotic decision reversed, all is well:
A five-member executive cabinet overseeing UC Irvine’s student government on Saturday vetoed a decision to ban the display of all flags, including the American flag.
“We fundamentally disagree with the actions taken by ASUCI Legislative Council and their passage of [the ban] as counter to the ideals that allow us to operate as an autonomous student government organization with the freedoms of speech and expression associated with it,” the cabinet said in a prepared statement.
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