{"id":58596,"date":"2015-03-07T08:13:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58596"},"modified":"2015-03-07T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T13:21:32","slug":"uc-irvine-students-vote-to-ban-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58596","title":{"rendered":"UC Irvine students vote to ban flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brent and T Breezy send us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2015\/03\/06\/students-at-uc-irvine-vote-to-ban-american-flag\/\">Fox News<\/a>&#8216; Todd Starnes who reports that the Associated Students of University of California (ASUCI) at Irvine voted 6-4 (two abstained from voting) to ban the American flag from their campus;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDesigning a culturally inclusive space aims to remove barriers that create undue effort and separation by planning and designing spaces that enable everyone to participate equally and confidentially,\u201d read the resolution authored by Matthew Guevara.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Guevara\u2019s resolution, which was in dire need of an edit, rambled on about \u201cparadigms of conformity\u201d and \u201chomogenized standards\u201d and blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American flag has been flown in instances of colonialism and imperialism,\u201d he bemoaned. \u201cFlags not only serve as symbols of patriotism or weapons for nationalism, but also construct cultural mythologies and narratives that in turn charge nationalistic sentiments.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The university grown-ups don&#8217;t support this movement, and apparently they won&#8217;t concede to this vote. In fairness, there are 22,000 students on this campus and only 6 people voted for the measure and according to the article, not even a majority of the undergrads concur with opinions of Matthew Guevara that were foisted on the student body. But, I think Mr Guevara needs to focus on being a student rather than being an activist. I mean, that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s in school &#8211; to learn &#8211; not to make himself look like an uneducated twit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent and T Breezy send us a link from Fox News&#8216; Todd Starnes who reports that &hellip; <a title=\"UC Irvine students vote to ban flag\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58596\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UC Irvine students vote to ban flag<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}