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College Stops Flying US Flag Entirely After Flag-Burning Incident
Daily Caller ^ | November 20, 2016 | Blake Neff

Posted on 11/20/2016 8:11:29 PM PST by kevcol

Hampshire College in Massachusetts has announced that it will no longer fly the U.S. flag at all in response to an incident where the flag was taken down and burned. The president of the college says that by getting rid of the flag the school will be able to focus on other issues like halting Islamophobia and promoting gay rights.

The mess for Hampshire College started a week and a half ago, after Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election. The school responded to Trump’s victory by keeping the U.S. flag at half-staff, as if in mourning, which upset some community members. Then, on the night before Veterans Day, somebody took the flag down and set it on fire.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: flagburning; hampshirecollege; highereducation; leftismoncampus; oldglory; universities; usflag; veteransday
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To: Grampa Dave

I have an idea to kill two birds with one stone.

Since this school wishes to not be an American school for fear of reprisals, we should remove all federal funding and student loans for students wishing to attend this “school of higher learning”

We can cut the deficit and remove a school that wishes not to be a part of The United States.


41 posted on 11/20/2016 9:58:04 PM PST by Only1choice____Freedom (As long as America's tolerence of failure is not overwhelmed by a desire to succeed, we will fail.)
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To: ErikJohnsky
You do know that Hampshire College is located in Pioneer Valley, aka "Happy Valley"?

Flood the dang place, and start to save the nation.

42 posted on 11/20/2016 10:01:16 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: bigbob

Amherst has been a Marxist and cowards college dreamworld for decades. The president of Hampshire College should be forced to resign on grounds of mental defect and cowardice.

I’d ask alumni to stop donating to the school but most of them are probably as batshit crazy and cowardly as he is.


43 posted on 11/20/2016 11:06:21 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Veggie Todd

No to flag—no to any federal funds! Send FBI to investigate—IRS to audit every one of the deans, professors, etc... The school should be closed.


44 posted on 11/20/2016 11:39:59 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: kevcol

This appears as though Hampshire College for leftists was looking for an excuse to get rid of the American Flag. There are ways to secure the flag pole from those who want to do mischief. The technology is there and the college should have campus police to arrest the mischief makers. Any student caught tampering with the flag would get expelled from the college. Non students would get a trespassing and malicious destruction of private property conviction.


45 posted on 11/20/2016 11:41:23 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: savagesusie

You have nailed it.


46 posted on 11/20/2016 11:44:31 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: kevcol
the school will be able to focus on other issues like halting Islamophobia and promoting gay rights.

No doubt that is the school's mission statement. What a crock. Here I though schools of higher education were meant to teach people to be productive citizens and give them a full education in a particular field. If I were a parent with a child in that school I would be pulling them out yesterday, because even that would not be soon enough.

47 posted on 11/21/2016 1:38:13 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: kevcol

Part of their hubris is they think they are progressing over and above Western Christian and Enlightenment thought. But their ideas stem from the psuedo-Marxist Frankfurt School from the 1920s.

They are nothing new. No progress. Just stale and unthinking, raw emotion, which is the point.


48 posted on 11/21/2016 1:51:30 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: kevcol

Ultra-flakey ‘New Age’ school.

They’ll probably start flying the Iranian national flag - right next to the hammer and sickle.


49 posted on 11/21/2016 2:41:05 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: kevcol

These liberal jerks should be driven out of this country Before they get hurt bad.


50 posted on 11/21/2016 3:02:06 AM PST by Bullish (The fly on Hillary's forehead knows)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Where are the backbones of the school administrators?


51 posted on 11/21/2016 3:12:46 AM PST by tillacum (I've been a Great Deplorable, from the beginning of DJT's entrance into politics.)
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To: Jack Hammer

That these cretins placed the US flag at half mast to protest Trumps election tells us that we did exactly the right thing by voting for him.


52 posted on 11/21/2016 3:13:30 AM PST by Bullish (The fly on Hillary's forehead knows)
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To: kevcol

PULL every single penny of Federal funds-—stop any student loans, & prevent them from continuing on this path.

The idiots have to be removed from any position of power.

Let that college president clean up ditches for a few years.


53 posted on 11/21/2016 6:19:13 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: kevcol

Need to have flags start appearing on campus - just start planting them, to be really cruel plant equal numbers of stars and bars and American Flags


54 posted on 11/21/2016 6:23:53 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Nailbiter

More insanity from your typical LIB idiots. What a laugh...


55 posted on 11/21/2016 6:52:16 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Veggie Todd

And if your school is getting any federal money I volunteer to find ways of not continuing that funding. State or federal funding should not support anti-state or anti-federal activities as both sets of government are neutral politically, theoretically, so that the funds are dispensed in a neutral manner.

This college is a disgrace. People are woefully ignorant of Islam and the Qu’ran and haven’t got a clue about how “normal” gays are...I think the administration needs a big wakeup call.


56 posted on 11/21/2016 7:00:25 AM PST by Bodega (elective, therapeutic abortion sequelae)
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To: Only1choice____Freedom

Since this school wishes to not be an American school for fear of reprisals, we should remove all federal funding and student loans for students wishing to attend this “school of higher learning”

We can cut the deficit and remove a school that wishes not to be a part of The United States.

Sounds like a plan.

Most liberals and liberal controlled institutions can’t survive without our $’s and our tax $’s.


57 posted on 11/21/2016 7:30:07 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: PGR88
...- and is why Fed.gov must get out of education entirely and be banned from lending money for education.

Exactly...let the loons go to whatever college they wish...let them major in whatever worthless course of study they choose...let them pay for it themselves.
58 posted on 11/21/2016 7:37:01 AM PST by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: kevcol
The president of the college says that by getting rid of the flag the school will be able to focus on other issues like halting Islamophobia and promoting gay rights.

Homosexuals have the same rights as anyone else. Males may marry any female who will have them, and females any male.

A phobia is an unwarranted or unfounded fear. It is neither unfounded nor unwarranted to fear a socio-political system masquerading as a religion which requires that you be enslaved or killed if you decline to convert. Therefore Islamophobia does not exist.

59 posted on 11/21/2016 8:39:54 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: tillacum

“Where are the backbones of the school administrators?”

You are obviously okay with the oppression of invertebrates!


60 posted on 11/21/2016 8:57:31 AM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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