California college defends mural showing fanged border agent, upside down US flag

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  1. HTownMarine

    HTownMarine Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You can say whatever you wants as long as you don't write #Trump2016 on a whiteboard, then the police are called.

    But yeah.. it's nonsense lol
     
  2. Ddyad

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    "Huh? ---> assume you mean public universities. The U.S. federal government does not run colleges or universities except for the service academies. Wow - private colleges only right? As if anyone but wealthy kids can afford those! " - Quote Originally Posted by Bo_4 View Post

    1. Yes, Virginia, public universities are government universities. 2. Nothing in my post referred to the "US federal government". 3. Nothing in my post referred to private colleges. 4. Moving the current obsolete government university system online would greatly reduce the cost to all students. 5. Selling the expensive assets of the current system and returning the proceeds to the people would empower them to have more educational choice.

    Read carefully - then post. It is more productive.
     
  3. HTownMarine

    HTownMarine Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Nothing, except that your definition of 'free speech' really means 'speech I agree with'.

    I can point out 1000 links where leftist college kids meltdown over these 'differing views'.
     
  4. Bo_4

    Bo_4 Banned at Members Request Past Donor

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    Sorry, it was a lame and inexplicable post. No, Virginia public universities are NOT government universities.

    Try harder next time.

    Top result for Google search term "government universities".

    The U.S. federal government does not run colleges or universities except for the service academies, the Community College of the Air Force, the Naval Postgraduate School, the Air Force Institute of Technology, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, military war colleges and staff colleges, and ...
     
  5. northwinds

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    So you are good with a Confederate flag hung in the 'White Studies' hall along with a picture of 'Aunt Jemima' and some blacks eating watermelons........if not......why are you so afraid? Answer the question, if you dare.........
     
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    Flamebait questions dont deserve an answer.... They are flamebait and serve no purpose.
     
  7. NMNeil

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    Public schools in America are government government schools. I suppose a Brit could be confused about that - most are not.
     
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    Paint over the US flag with a confederate flag and watch how fast it comes down.

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    Don't you have some confederate flags and civil war statues to destroy?
     
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    When free speech is all encompassing then let's talk. Until then you're being intellectually dishonest or simply ignorant of the realities. How many times do people have to point out the hypocrisy before you acknowledge it instead of trolling?

    How many examples of free speech NOT being free when Liberals don't agree with it. It doesn't matter who finds it insulting free speech is free speech. That mural is just as insulting as a picture of a noose around Obama. Both incite hatred and violence. Why is one ok and one isn't when it's free speech? Hate speech can't be biased or subjective if we're going to punish people. It's either free or it's not. If you think speech class is equal in college campuses you've never been or have no access to the Internet. It's that simple.

    Explain?
     
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    Where's the fanged brown person running drugs as a hero tries to stop him mural?
     
  12. northwinds

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    This is merely the courageous outpouring of feelings by our Hispanic La Raza Reconquista brothers and sisters who are exhausted by being held down by 'the man'. All they want is to take over this country and reshape it into a culturally relevant society such as the ones they are fleeing from. Who are these old, fearful, hateful white people who would stand in their way out of sheer xenophobic racism? Any statues of memorials to the evil white man should be taken down and destroyed......any micro aggressions by hateful white students should be immediately met with expulsion from the school and criminal prosecution.......the sooner we can accomplish this white ethnic cleansing the better for the country which will no longer have borders. All people of European descent should be forced to move back to Europe where they can help welcome the poor and downtrodden Middle Eastern and African refugees who only want their women and destruction of their culture due to hundreds of years of colonialism on the part of Europeans.......peace is coming.
     
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    Discrimination against conservative thought is reality on may college campuses. The cone of shame may be a social construct, but the left is too unaware to understand it applies to them. If I were a contributor that university would not get another dime from me.
     
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    In Omaha an illegal was racing while drunk and killed a young woman who had just graduated from college. He had been deported several times. The judge set a low bail and the young man probably fled the country. ICE showed little interest until after the woman died and Neb Sen Sass raised the issue in Congress. This is not an isolated incident.

    If I were there, I would spray paint on the offensive mural as an expression of my freedom of speech.
     
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    The folks complaining should get equal access and put up a mural showing illegals picking the pockets of Uncle Sam.
     
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    Nope - but if i did i'd give them to a museum.

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    A government government school - and pray tell what is a double gub-ment school?

    :rolleyes:
     
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    LOL! I should proof read my copy. A terrible fault. ;-)

    Most of our government schools are funded by more than 2 levels of government now. Gub-gub-gub-ment?
     
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    Having drivers licenses, auto insurance and driving sober is culturally irrelevant at this point.......many of these Hispanics come from glorious societies with spicy food with none of the white man's constraints. As one of my friends said it best here on PF just the other day 'why is there so much 'hysterical faux grief' over these deaths.........these people are going to die anyway someday......why blame it on the people that killed them all over some border which is merely a Euro-centric made up line on the earth which separates loving people who merely wish to cherish the land and hunt buffalo like their ancestors have done for millions of years before the evil white man came and destroyed everything good......
     
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    They are not run by the government - i already proved that.

    Shutting down every public JC, college and university would be insane -

    but we understand that the dumber you keep 'em, the more likely they'll be to vote Republican. ;)
     
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    Public schools are all government schools. If you do not know that you have been misinformed.

    Now paste up a quote from me saying they should be shut down.
     
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    If them American soldiers didn't invade Iraq, than we wouldn't be having ISIS, and Europe wouldn't be flooded with muslims.
    So it's nice that this vet got an opinion as a person. But as a vet... he's not allowed to have a voice in what walls look like in schools.
     
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    I already did - and it's insanity to say the least.

    Government universities are obsolete and should be moved online. The real estate and other assets should be sold and the proceeds returned to the public.

    The second we have only private colleges and universities 90% of those in public colleges and universities will be priced out of the market for a higher education.
     
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    One can only hope a massive earthquake would detach California and it floats across the the Pacific and (re-)join Communist China.. birds of a feather.
     
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    LOL! Read carefully - my post did not call for shutting government schools down.

    And yes, Virginia public schools including public universities are government schools. Surely you know that now. :)

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    It would be even more amusing if it floated up North, To Alaska. ;-)
     
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    American Indians, in addition to destroying the Buffalo herds, were preoccupied with wiping out other tribes throughout their existence until the modern era. Surely you know this.
     

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