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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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College Declines American Flag – But
Will Take U.S. Taxpayer Dollars

Cybercast News Service, by Eric Scheiner Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 11/29/2016 4:46:29 PM Post Reply
The Boston Business Journal reports, Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. may decline to fly the U.S. flag — but has no plans to decline any of the more than $7 million it and its students recieved from the U.S. government last year. Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash announced the decision to stop flying any flags on the school´s flagpole for a period of time following a burning of the flag on the campus after the presidential election. "We hope this will enable us to instead focus our efforts on addressing racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and behaviors,"
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