@TomTomBinks,
TomTomBinks wrote:
Can you point me to the report of the flag being taken down on university campus(s)? I searched but didn't find anything.
For you, I'll take a quick look. That was 5-10 years ago, believe it or not.
Here's something similar I quickly came across, but it's not the one I had in mind:
Quote:First, a student legislative council at the University of California-Irvine approved (6-4) a resolution to ban the American flag from student government offices. The banners felt those should be “inclusive” spaces, while the American flag has been “flown in instances of colonialism and imperialism.” And besides – get this – “freedom of speech, in a space that aims to be as inclusive as possible, can be interpreted as hate speech.”
http://reason.com/archives/2015/03/18/the-death-of-free-speech-on-college-camp
Free speech is "hate speech," eh? Go figure.
This might have been it:
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FIRE Coalition Shatters Window Display Censorship Policy at University of Alabama
The policy was issued after a student was ordered to remove a confederate flag from the door of his dorm room. Other students, aware of the threat to their liberty posed by this regulation,
subsequently displayed American flags to challenge administrators to enforce the ban....
Etheredge cited a draft of a university policy that forbade putting up any displays “in view of the general public” that were “inconsistent with accepted standards or University policies.”
The policy also outlawed “harassing or intimidating” visual materials. Professor White refused to enforce this policy because he recognized that it violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution....
FIRE wrote to UA President Robert E. Witt in July, pointing out that the university’s requirement that window displays meet “accepted standards” was so vague that it would allow administrators to choose what sorts of expression would be allowed based solely on their whims and unfettered discretion. The letter informed Witt that “The only ‘accepted standard’ should be the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
Rather than admit their error and commit to their legal and moral duties under the First Amendment, administrators chose to ban all window displays. This galvanized the residents of the Byrd Hall dormitory who
defiantly disobeyed the ban by prominently displaying American flags. FIRE publicly supported the students who challenged the ban.
he ASA and its allies organized a vigil for freedom of speech that brought together people from across the political spectrum. Student and faculty participants took a variety of flags, including national flags from across the world, to a meeting of a university committee that was discussing the ban on flags and window displays. Additionally, the Alabama chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the League of the South publicly declared their opposition to the policy.
On September 18, Dean of Students Thomas S. Strong informed the university community that the administration had “indefinitely tabled” the ban and that he personally would work to protect free speech on campus.[/quote]