Veterans protest Hampshire College protest
We talked last week about Hampshire College removing US flags from their campus so the students can discuss what they want to do about flags on their campus. WWLP reports that about 1000 veterans showed up to tell students what the rest of America who is not their college president felt about the issue. Of course, Jonathon Lash, the college president was no where to be seen;
Jerry Maguire, Veteran said, “They took down my flag, they have a right to that, I’m here to defend their right to do that but I want them to understand how bad that hurts me.”
Hundreds gathered to show their support of the American flag and what it stands for after the College removed the flag on campus earlier this week following the presidential election results. A decision by the college that outraged many.
David Soucy, a Veteran told 22News, “I was in Iraq 18 months. I got hurt, spent time at Walter Reed. I came home and there’s no way I’ll let anyone take down the flag, no way. It means a lot to me and my brothers.”
People came from all over New England to attend this protest.
Lash did give 22 News an interview from his spiderhole;
Lash…told me he stands for and supports everything that veterans do for our country, but decided to temporarily remove the main American flag on the Hampshire college campus to allow for honest and open dialogue among all students.
Lash said “After the election campaign and the degree of racism, sexism, and islamophobia that played out in that campaign, feelings were just exacerbated.” He told 22News the flag had to be removed because it was making it impossible for students to have a direct discussion.
I guess because honest and open dialogue can’t happen with an American flag in the area.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
NSFW or kids or clergy or someone’s sainted mother.
We do get things right every once in a while here in the PRoM… Was happy to see this in the news, have been out of state or would have gone myself. While I understand the right of the college it was at best misguided and at worst disrespectful.
Here’s hoping the college corrects this stupidity and exposes their special snowflakes to some actual diversity.
It was at best (or worst) stupid
Jonathon Lash, SJW and Clinton fanboy, all butt hurt!
WAAAA FUCKING WAAAAA!
Maybe ol’ Jonathon Lash can’t stand the back-lash?
Jonathon Lash feels the need to lash out at those he perceives to be his intellectual inferiors.
Jonathon Lash needs to spend some time in open and honest dialogue in the hinterlands of Iraq.
Jonathon Lash is an educated idiot.
Jonathon Lash does not have a clue.
Jonathon Lash is a coward.
Jonathon Lash mouths platitudes without meaning.
Jonathon Lash is a mealy-mouthed gas bag.
Jonathon Lash is not worthy to lick the dust off of a serviceman’s boots.
Jonathon Lash has yet to confront the realities of life.
Jonathon Lash is all theory no practice.
Jonathon Lash is a hypocrite.
I tend to scan quickly and miss things…however I believe you forgot to mention jonathon lash…your prose was near perfect except that omission
Mea Culpa, 1610.
I shall attempt to improve my prose in future posts.
Your patience with my fallibility is appreciated.
😀
Golf Bravo, you’re breaking up! Say again all after Jonathon Lash, over!
“Lash said “After the election campaign and the degree of racism, sexism, and islamophobia that played out in that campaign, feelings were just exacerbated.”
What the fuck is wrong with people? What FUCKING planet do these people live on?
Put his pussy ass in a trebuchet and launch him to Cuba.
Fuck you Jonathon Lash.
Cocksucker.
“Lash said “After the election campaign and the degree of racism, sexism, and islamophobia that played out in that campaign”
On which side?
“the flag had to be removed because it was making it impossible for students to have a direct discussion”.
Really? So, how productive do you think a North Korean of Iranian flag would have been to direct discussion Mr. Lash? Because countries like those are all about freedom of discussion aren’t they? Standing under the American flag is the ONLY flag on this earth where you can be sure you are indeed free to openly discuss whatever you choose.
Next time Mr. Lash, take your balls out of your wife’s purse and be a man and if you truly respect what veterans do and stand for, then relay that to these infants hiding in adult bodies. Encourage their direct discussion but be sure to point to the American flag flying over your campus to remind them of why they are able to cry, whine, whimper and discuss their candidate losing in a free election.
The worst part is that so many of the students actually believe this idiot when he talks about the Trump racism etc…
Was the Mulism Somali “refugee” attack at OSU a micro aggression or hate crime?
So hard to keep straight…
It’s those damn Trump-voters who drove him to it.
Nothing about the Religion of
PiecesPeace at all.Jonathan Lash would kiss Mohammad Ali’s unwashed Somalian hindquarters.
He was forced into violence because he didn’t have a separate prayer room. Not kidding:http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/abdul-razak-ali-artan-ohio-state-university-osu-stabbing-suspect-terrorist-somalia-refugee-isis/
This is funny.
Someone really said that. With a straight face. In public.
According to his Hamster Kollege profile, Lash is busy trying to save the planet. That’s what he does. He busies himself trying to save the planet. Gawd, that’s funny.
“funny” as in “this three-day-old fish smells funny.”
This is from an article on the “timeline” of this controversy
The controversy started on Wednesday, November 9th, when the flag was lowered to half-staff by students who were unhappy with the results of the presidential election. At the time, several local veterans and community members had told 22News that lowering the flag to half-staff was disrespectful.
The following night, on Thursday November 10th, the college’s American flag was burned. Hampshire College President Jonathon Lash told 22News the incident is still being investigated by campus police.
Hampshire College raised a new flag on Friday, November 11th, in honor of Veterans’ Day. The next day, their Board of Trustees voted to lower the flag to half-staff again, to “facilitate a continued campus dialogue.”
Source: http://wwlp.com/2016/11/26/timeline-hampshire-college-flag-controversy/
In short, the removal of the flag is not the removal of a “barrier to direct discussion.”
The removal of the flag was the goal of one side. There is and was no “discussion” to be had. There was no “compromise” or “give and take” to have a discussion.
It was the goal of the SJW’s to remove the flag and they succeeded by the cowardly actions of the administration led by President Lash.
“Discussions” are never the goal of SJW’s, that is unless you consider “we want this and you have to comply” as a “discussion.”
Jonathon Lash is an ASS WART.
Jonathon Lash is a DINGLEBERRY.
Jonathon Lash is a DILDOHEAD.
Jonathon Lash is a PC CANDYASS.
Jonathon Lash is a CHICKENSHIT.
SO he made the decision to take down the United States Flag in order to placate the thin-skinned booger-eating bedwetting thumbsucking twinkle-toed candyassed PC types and hock a loogey in the faces of us Vets, I bet he’s never even served! IMHO if one has never written that blank check that those of us that have served did they have no right to disrespect our flag like that, I hope he gets a never-ending stream of heartburn from people holding him accountable for that pisspants chickenshit decision. I see he makes maximum efforts to take young adults and their parent’s money and turn them into toddlers! If he doesn’t want the US Flag displayed on his little la-la land then maybe his screwel needs to forgo taking any and all Federal tax money as well.
Soon we will be reading about all the death threats received by the “victim” Jonathon Lash and we will be told we should sympathy for him.
Douche.
I’ll bet he is best friends with Gersh Kuntzman.
What a turd.
I would love to drop my load right on his face….
And by the looks of him, I do not think it will be the first time….
I bet it’d be even harder to have an open and honest discussion with a couple of million less Federal dollars in funding.
Fuck this guy.
While a new flag was unveiled for Veteran’s Day (Nov. 11), the college decided to temporarily remove it after students decried it as a symbol of inequality across the nation. (Christian Science Monitor)
The INEQUALITY of $62,015 annually to attend below.
http://college-tuition.startclass.com/l/1802/Hampshire-College