Happy Belated Flag Day
Friday, June 16, 2006
"The Germans killed 6 million Jewish people," one woman yelled. "Should we take their flag down?"
That is from an article found at http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/states/texas/arlington/14823605.htm regarding the current controversy of the Vietnamese Flag at University of Texas Arlington. School officials there have removed 123 international flags from the campus’ Nedderman Hall on May 10, after Vietnamese students complained about the display of the current Vietnamese flag, which they contend represents an oppressive communist regime. Of course, this brought animosity between the Vietnamese American students and the other students. This brought out the opening remark listed here.
Which first of all, the Germans as a people are not responsible for the Holocaust, it was the Nazis. Which yes- consisted of mostly Germans, but I think a good bunch of the 6 million people of Jewish descent who were killed were also Germans.
And secondly, did they have to take down all the flags? The flags were part of a tradition at the campus to represent where members of the student body originated from. The Vietnamese Americans resented the communist flag being placed there about a year or so ago. The issue brought a lot of press and pressure ultimately leading to legislators threatening to pull funding for a new engineering building for UT-Arlington if the U.N.-recognized flag of the communist government was allowed to remain. So the idiots there just decided to pull down all the freaking flags.
Ai Yah.
So now everyone hates the Vietnamese Americans there.
"The Vietnamese community wanted the flag taken down, and now the Vietnamese community is not accepting responsibility," said Jesse Dearing, a software engineering major, who organized a petition to the president to restore Flags at Neddeman Hall. Dearing, the creator of the Web site www.savethehallofflags.org, openly acknowledged there was anti-Vietnamese sentiment on campus now, visible in posts on the Web site that he moderates. “But it is not because of race”, Dearing said.
And the foot up your ass is not because of that stupid comment. The Vietnamese Americans only wanted one flag down, not all the flags. Now whispers of ‘Charlie” echo all over the halls of UT Arlington. Very clever there guys.
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"The Germans killed 6 million Jewish people," one woman yelled. "Should we take their flag down?"
That is from an article found at http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/states/texas/arlington/14823605.htm regarding the current controversy of the Vietnamese Flag at University of Texas Arlington. School officials there have removed 123 international flags from the campus’ Nedderman Hall on May 10, after Vietnamese students complained about the display of the current Vietnamese flag, which they contend represents an oppressive communist regime. Of course, this brought animosity between the Vietnamese American students and the other students. This brought out the opening remark listed here.
Which first of all, the Germans as a people are not responsible for the Holocaust, it was the Nazis. Which yes- consisted of mostly Germans, but I think a good bunch of the 6 million people of Jewish descent who were killed were also Germans.
And secondly, did they have to take down all the flags? The flags were part of a tradition at the campus to represent where members of the student body originated from. The Vietnamese Americans resented the communist flag being placed there about a year or so ago. The issue brought a lot of press and pressure ultimately leading to legislators threatening to pull funding for a new engineering building for UT-Arlington if the U.N.-recognized flag of the communist government was allowed to remain. So the idiots there just decided to pull down all the freaking flags.
Ai Yah.
So now everyone hates the Vietnamese Americans there.
"The Vietnamese community wanted the flag taken down, and now the Vietnamese community is not accepting responsibility," said Jesse Dearing, a software engineering major, who organized a petition to the president to restore Flags at Neddeman Hall. Dearing, the creator of the Web site www.savethehallofflags.org, openly acknowledged there was anti-Vietnamese sentiment on campus now, visible in posts on the Web site that he moderates. “But it is not because of race”, Dearing said.
And the foot up your ass is not because of that stupid comment. The Vietnamese Americans only wanted one flag down, not all the flags. Now whispers of ‘Charlie” echo all over the halls of UT Arlington. Very clever there guys.
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http://www.myspace.com/catterpillarboy
http://catterpillarboy.blogspot.com/
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