{"id":69116,"date":"2016-11-25T10:54:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69116"},"modified":"2016-11-25T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T15:54:13","slug":"hampshire-college-and-the-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69116","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire College and the flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/307485-massachusetts-college-wont-fly-us-flag-on-campus\">The Hill<\/a>, on the day after the election, the inmates running the asylum at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hampshirecollege\/\">Hampshire College<\/a> decided to fly flags on campus at half staff  \u201cas an expression of grief over the violent deaths being suffered in this country and globally&#8221; as if those violent deaths didn&#8217;t happen until the moment that the Democrat candidate was defeated in an election.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, that decision became a ban against flying a US flag on the campus from the head inmate, Hampshire&#8217;s president, Jonathan Lash. He posted this statement on the college&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hampshirecollege\/posts\/10154927092331159\">Facebook page<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69117\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Hampshire-College-statement-260x333.jpg\" alt=\"Hampshire College statement\" width=\"260\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Hampshire-College-statement-260x333.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Hampshire-College-statement-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Hampshire-College-statement.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s not really a ban, it&#8217;s a period in which the inmates can reflect on &#8220;racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and behaviors&#8221;. Somehow an American flag flying over the campus during this navel-gazing isn&#8217;t productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Hill, on the day after the election, the inmates running the asylum at &hellip; <a title=\"Hampshire College and the flag\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69116\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hampshire College and the flag<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69116","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=69116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}