Posted on 06/20/2002 5:40:04 PM PDT by vannrox
We're still tracking down the details of the story about the Hope Lodge and Emory University. Hope Lodge is a residence for cancer patients near the Emory Hospital. We're told that the people who run the Hope Lodge wanted to fly an American flag. They were evidently told by university officials that they could not because the flag might "offend" foreign students on the campus.
I've heard more from some of the people involved. Could it be that the director of the Hope Lodge really has a document from the Emory folks telling her that flying the American flag outside the residence would be "inappropriate and in poor taste"?
Poor taste? Flying the American flag on a university campus in the United States would be in poor taste?
You want poor taste? How about coming to America from a foreign country to take advantage of our superior educational opportunities here and then professing to be "offended" at the sight of an American flag? How about sucking down taxpayer dollars to subsidize your education while turning your back on the symbol of our country?
We're not letting go of this one. If someone at Emory really DID write a letter to the Hope Lodge telling them that flying an American flag would be in "poor taste" we'll get the name, address and serial number.
No date yet looking for good weather. Maybe the start of the next semester in the fall, but students at Emory University will look up in the sky one day to see a Super Cub towing a huge flag of the United States. Trailing that flag will be a banner that reads "Offended? Go home!" This effort courtesy of "The Neal Boortz Show" and Barbara's Banners! http://www.barbsbanners.com
I heard from another former Emory student about their rampant political correctness. They heard me mention the banner-towing idea yesterday. A year or so ago they had a "Congratulations So-and-So" banner towed above Emory during the graduation ceremony. They were told that this was not an appropriate thing to do because sit down some of the students' parents couldn't afford a banner with their name on it and, therefore, it just wasn't fair!
Anyone who feels this way about the flag should be hounded from their position, reduced for their lifetime to grinding poverty and never be allowed to feel safe from random acts of retribution by their less refined fellow citizens for the duration of their lives.
And this is what passes for being PC with me.
If I had my druthers this sort of disloyalty would earn these bastards a choice of exile or the gallows.
,,, so, university officials have a mandate to hold the ideals of foreign students benefiting from study in the US above the ideals of American citizens on their own soil? Go on, risk it! Fly "Old Glory" and test "might offend".
My thoughts exactly!! This is OUR country, if they don't like our flag, national anthem, or other symbols of U.S. patriotism, let them get the hell out of here.
That is strange! Imagine the French flag flying over French university in France or Polish flag in Poland. Would American exchange students be offended?
Who exactly takes the offence? Students from which country?
We need to start from scratch.
This is absolute crap!!! I don't believe that anyone really cares about the possibility that a foreign student might be offended by the American flag flying above an AMERICAN university.
What about the foreign students who are proud to be here and might actually love to see our beautiful flag?!?
What about the American students who LOVE our country and our flag and all that they both stand for?!?
Don't we get a say in what flys over our public, tax supported universities?
I think it's time to bring back the proud and time tested public tradition of tar and feathering. What weak limp-wristed, bed-wetter could possibly come up with this gabage? Offended foreign students, un-freaking-believeable!!! University officials have the right to say whatever they please. They also should be prepared to feel the consequences of being an idiot!
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