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Mass. School Offers Counseling For ‘Victims’ Of Confederate Flag Sticker
Daily Caller ^ | 11/26/15 | Philip Devoe

Posted on 11/26/2015 6:57:29 PM PST by markomalley

After a student filed a “bias report” accusing a student with a Confederate flag sticker on his laptop of racism, Framingham State University officials offered offended students counseling.

“We recognize that bias incidents are upsetting for the entire campus community, but especially for the target(s) and witness(es) of these incidents,” wrote Sean Huddleston, the Massachusetts-based school’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, in a campus-wide email published in part by FSU campus newspaper The Gatepost. “It is strongly suggested that anyone impacted by a bias incident find someone to speak with.”

In his email, Huddleston assured students “symbols such as these are not condoned by Framingham State University” but that the school wouldn’t ban the flag, as it is protected by First Amendment free speech rights.

“We absolutely believe everyone is due and should be able to exercise their constitutional rights,” Huddleston said in the email. “We want to foster a community and an environment where everyone feels safe and welcome. If we have a student or faculty or staff that feels unsafe based on something that was said or they witnessed, we have an obligation to inform the campus that has occurred.”

Huddleston concluded by confirming “a productive discussion” between the complainant and the student who owned the laptop “was achieved” and that the Bias Protocol & Response Team “will meet to determine any measures that may be needed to respond to this incident,” reports The Gatepost.

Since September, students have filed four similar bias reports at the university, reports Metro West Daily News, two others being “racially insensitive” Facebook posts.

Metro West Daily News defines “bias reports” as complaints to the administration about something a student witnessed or experienced that made them feel discriminated against or otherwise uncomfortable.

According to The Gatepost, FSU students had mixed responses to Huddleston’s email and the bias report overall based on posts to the anonymous social media app Yik Yak, including many posts opposed to the situation:

“Carry a copy of the constitution tomorrow, see how fast the PC police emails fly.”

“I’m so proud of FSU for making national news over students being scared of a picture of a flag. Oh wait, no I’m not.”

“So if I have a Rebel Alliance wallpaper, am I gonna get reported to the Empire?”

And some opposed, including one compared the Confederate flag to the swastika, saying “that’s the issue. In case you were somehow still confused in 2015.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: dixie; education
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

sad! just SAD!

we have nowhere to go but UP


21 posted on 11/26/2015 7:28:36 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Google “Ancient Swastika usage” then hit images.

https://www.google.com/search?q=navajo+rug+swastika&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb9fKI0a_JAhVIVogKHZWmB3wQ_AUIBygB&biw=1024&bih=505#tbm=isch&q=ancient++swastika+usage


22 posted on 11/26/2015 7:29:48 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: markomalley

the rainbow flag offends tens of millions of people

why isn’t it banned?


23 posted on 11/26/2015 7:30:47 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: markomalley
Wonder what the precious little snowflakes will do when they see this pro-Russian flag.


24 posted on 11/26/2015 7:34:25 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: markomalley

Counseling for the wuss pansy face candy a$$ weaklings who collapsed at the sight of a flag. How about a box of tissues to wipe their tears? Do you think two weeks of therapy with a shrink will be enough?
Will the poor dears ever be whole again? When will they be able to resume classes?
I hope they never see a picture or read a news story of what mozlim sate doing to Yazidis and Christians because that would really hurt their delicate sensibilities.


25 posted on 11/26/2015 7:44:19 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: I want the USA back

That would probably make them happy.


26 posted on 11/26/2015 7:46:44 PM PST by bimboeruption ("Occupy till I come" ~ OPORD issued by CIC Jesus Christ)
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To: I want the USA back

Tissues!? That reminds me of the GREAT R. Lee Ermey ‘shrink’ commercial where he throws a box of ‘em at some limp dick getting counseling! Damn, what Gunny could do with this ‘safe space’ bullsh%T nonsense in a commercial or video rant!


27 posted on 11/26/2015 7:52:04 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Dittos to that!


28 posted on 11/26/2015 7:52:56 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: GreenHornet

Snowflakes taught be snowflakes. Grow up of melt away


29 posted on 11/26/2015 8:20:29 PM PST by Kozy
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To: I want the USA back

they should enter my model building bunker. i have enough non PC flags to put them in therapy for decades. not to mention open carry at home.


30 posted on 11/26/2015 8:39:39 PM PST by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: markomalley

“I’s offendeded by that stidker man. I had to listens to mys fav RAP song, “Pee on that b***ch and give her a baby”.


31 posted on 11/26/2015 10:32:42 PM PST by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: bravo whiskey

A local home was sold from the 93 year old grand daughter of the 1885 builder to a new to town couple. They spotted an original rug in the dining room with the swastika on it, and threw it in the trash. It was a little later that someone pointed out it came from a native source.


32 posted on 11/26/2015 10:39:26 PM PST by healy61
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To: markomalley
The only 'counseling' these quivering milquetoasts need is a bitch-slap and a hard kick in the ass as they're sent their merry way. Suck it up, children. The Real World is gonna eat ya alive.


33 posted on 11/26/2015 11:13:05 PM PST by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: markomalley

BUMP!


34 posted on 11/26/2015 11:15:58 PM PST by golux
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To: markomalley

Put them in a cage with a rattlesnake that will get their mind off “that flag”.


35 posted on 11/26/2015 11:44:37 PM PST by TYVets
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Anotehr interesting use of the Swastika: the 1917 Bolshevik 1000 Ruble note has a Swastika right in the middle. And its not the only Bolshevik note with that sign. The Swastika was adopted for Socialism while Hitler was still in the trenches.

I don't know if FR's technical issues will let me show the note,but here goes:


36 posted on 11/27/2015 2:58:28 AM PST by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: lovesdogs
...hope that any student...is prohibited from law enforcement career tracks

Not to worry. Their majors are mostly poli-sci...

37 posted on 11/27/2015 4:01:01 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: markomalley

This sounds like something out of Scientology


38 posted on 11/27/2015 4:02:59 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Dallas59

selective outrage for the poor spoilt dears in MA.
What a bunch of Obama, wuss, pansy fairies they are.

Are there no boys up there to have a private talk with these little pansies?


39 posted on 11/27/2015 4:11:03 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: markomalley

wimpy, wimpy, wimpy little puff cakes


40 posted on 11/27/2015 4:57:19 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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