Posted on 09/22/2010 4:23:34 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
The observance at Saturday’s football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted “USA, USA.” This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda and bellicosity. The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) “patriotic.” Athletic planners should cease such exploitation for political purposes. They might at least consider how most Muslim students, American or otherwise, would respond to this nativist display; or better, Muslims and others that live their lives under the threat of our planes, drones and soldiers.
The overwhelmingly white, privileged, Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk chant, while poverty-drafted members of their cohort fight and die in illegal and immoral wars for the control of oil. University administrators need to eliminate from all events such “patriotic” observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored killing.
(Excerpt) Read more at weaselzippers.us ...
Ditto!
These “academics” should be asking us if we want fries with that.
The undocumented, Emperor-for-Life Baraq Hussein Obama:
"We cannot trust the Americans.
But remember as the terrorists bring death to every American city;
I will survive in MY new presidential helicopter
which lets ME cook breakfast even while America
burns alive under nuclear attack."
Islam is offensive to me.
In fact, it is a direct threat to the rights endowed to me by my Creator.
The existence of anyone other than themselves offends these troglodytes. mooslims at a football game offend me. Do you think the half-time ceremonial burning of the kooran will offend them?
Here is the unexcerpted article:
” (Daily Illini)- The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent killing of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation.
The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent killing of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation.
The observance at Saturday’s football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted “USA, USA.” This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda and bellicosity. The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) “patriotic.” Athletic planners should cease such exploitation for political purposes. They might at least consider how most Muslim students, American or otherwise, would respond to this nativist display; or better, Muslims and others that live their lives under the threat of our planes, drones and soldiers.
The overwhelmingly white, privileged, Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk chant, while poverty-drafted members of their cohort fight and die in illegal and immoral wars for the control of oil. University administrators need to eliminate from all events such “patriotic” observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored killing.
David Green,
University Academic Professional
Post of the day.
F you, BIG TIME, Muslim piece of craps!!!!
The Onion?
“We should consider what Muslim students think...”
OK.
Finished.
I think they should either join in the revelry or shut the (expletive) up and leave.
How’s that? Clear enough for you?
I make NO apology for my patriotism and give NO quarter to those who seek to diminish my country.
Anyone who is offended by loud patriotic chanting does not belong in this country. Perhaps they can go watch soccer games in Cuba, Iran or North Korea, where they won’t be subjected to such “offensiveness.”
For a supposed intellectual, this POS is as dumb as a rock. Anybody care to inform him there is NO draft; that there has been NO draft for several years and free speech is still protected.
BTW, who gives a rat’s a$$ what Mohammedans are offended about? There’sis a cult of hate, worshipping a goat-humping pedophile and slobbering all over a black rock.
Please please please Israel,
Nuke Tehran, Medina, Damascus all at the same time, please please please.
Send them all to hell where they belong.
University Academic Professional=Useless Appendage of the Body Politic
This puke needs to eat a pistol.
Me and Standish and Redding are doing the anti-pep rally to point out that a violent ground acquisition game such as football is, in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
The real problem. Can't have groups of white people.
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