By Jim Owen on
University professors across the country have expressed their support for students at the University of California-Irvine who want the U.S. flag banned from campus.
“U.S. nationalism often contributes to racism and xenophobia, and the paraphernalia of nationalism is in fact often used to intimidate,” stated a letter signed by hundreds of professors, according to the website Campus Reform.
The letter continued: "We admire the courage of the resolution's supporters amid this environment of political immaturity and threat, and support them unequivocally.”
Irvine’s student government association voted 6-4 on March 3 to remove the flag from the lobby of a campus building. Supporters of the resolution said they wanted to promote “cultural inclusiveness.” They wrote that “the American flag has been flown in instances of colonialism and imperialism."
However, several days later, the student government’s executive leadership reversed the resolution. The flag reappeared in the lobby on Monday.
One student told Breitbart News that the flag ban was a concession to undocumented immigrants. “There were people who were like, the flag triggers me,” the student said.
Fox News noted that some state legislators in California are drafting legislation that would stop taxpayer-funded universities from banning the flag.
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