Do you think these students would even notice if American flags were taken down?
Campus Reform reports:
USF decision to temporarily remove flags from campus building triggers panic among students
The University of South Florida St. Petersburg has removed all flags from the University Student Center, including a Pride Flag and Black Lives Matter flag, triggering outrage from some students.
The instruction to remove the flags came on July 16. Skye Smith, the president of the school’s “PRIDE Alliance,” said she was contacted by the Office of Student Engagement, telling her that several flags would be removed “due to mandate [sic] from an external entity that received a complaint about these flags.”
The school’s Black Student Association claimed that the decision was made “following a complaint to the governor’s office.” However, Carrie O’Brion, a USF spokesperson, said the school received no such directive from the governor’s office, and that USF is only temporarily removing the flags while getting ready to renovate the student center building.
“During our review, it was noted there was not a reliable or comprehensive process for selecting and rotating the flags in the USC. We have temporarily removed all flags until we can convene a group of students, faculty and staff to solicit their input on all aspects of the renovation during the fall semester,” O’Brion said.
The removed flags included a pride flag and a Black Lives Matter flag, which caused opposition among some students.
Skye Smith called the move “scary” and “disheartening,” and said the decision shows that “marginalized communities” are “being silenced.”
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Poor bay-bees…
The directive was to remove all flags.
I assume the directive also included the US flag.
The directive was because of remodeling.
So, what is the problem?
The problem is whining. Spoiled brats. Children who grew into adulthood years without ever having been told no.
Perhaps getting University presidents willing to expel the rioters would change things dramatically then?
There is only one institution Republicans have control over that could do such a thing.
So you can be sure that that one won’t do it either.
This is what the government taking control looks like.
California is pushing universities in the other direction, if we are not pushing them in our direction we are surrendering them.
Buy you own, you stingy bitches.
Nobody flies Gadsden flags for me.
I say put their flags back up and let the remodeling commence. See how those flags look after a couple of weeks.
But burning the American flag is totally ok, right? Doesn’t make me feel scared or silenced at all.
Bwaahaahaaa! Caused by a “complaint.”
How many times has the left pulled this?
I recall, on 9/10/01, a UMASS physics professor, Jennie Traschen, was trying to limit/restrict the display of American flags in Amherst, MA, by calling it a “symbol of oppression” etc.
Sadly for her, the next day changed all that, at least for a little while….
Now, the Hamasholes are burning American flags while waving Pally flags and wearing keffiyehs.
Sounds like they are renouncing their country to me. Please use the exit doors on your way out….
I support their right to protest.
I also support the right of the college to document such things on their final official transcripts.