Hispanic Anti-Americanism Day

http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/05/06/students-punished-for-wearing-american-flags-on-cinco-de-mayo/I bet you thought Cinco de Mayo was the anniversary of the Mexican victory in the Battle of Puebla.  It seems in San Jose, California, it's "hate America day".  One of the gravest offenses on the fifth of May is displaying the American flag.

Zombie reports:

 

Five students at a California high school were forced to leave school and then face disciplinary action yesterday for the crime of wearing clothing printed with American flag designs.

If you're wondering how being patriotic could possibly merit punishment, it's because the kids displayed the American flags on May 5. And as everyone knows, American flags are absolutely verboten on May 5.

Right? Doesn't anybody remember that rule? Anybody? Bueller?

According to local TV stations KTVU and NBC Bay Area, this bewildering and deeply unsettling incident happened at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, a suburban town south of San Jose.

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So here we have the Principal and the Vice-Principal of an American high school treating the Stars and Stripes as if it was a gang bandanna; even worse, the school administrators took sides in this imaginary US-vs.-Mexico gang fight by allowing the widespread display of Mexican flags on campus but banning (under threat of punishment) any display of the American flag.

 

NBC quotes a fellow student:

 

"I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day," Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, said. "We don't deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on Fourth of July."

 

Disrespected? I'm confused. Aren't all the students Americans? Who is being disrespected by the display of our shared national flag?

 

Let's pause for a moment and peel back the layers. It seems that many of the Hispanic students at Live Oak High (and probably innumerable other high schools across the country) have been so inculcated with an "identity politics" curriculum that, under the rubric of instilling pride and self-esteem, they have been convinced that they are somehow distinct from and separate from the other American students; that "we" feel disrespected when forced to perceive an American flag.

 

The school administration then stirs in their own toxic contribution: An assumption (typical of the "soft racism" of leftist ideology) that Hispanic students will respond with violence when they feel disrespected ("the patriotic shirts could trigger fights" is the euphemism they used). Even worse, fearing violence from Hispanic students, the adminstrators solve the crisis by banishing the "offensive" items, rather than warning students that any violence will be severely punished. In other words, the racist administrators insultingly assumed that their Hispanic students would erupt in violence at the sight of an American flag, and the only way to prevent this is to cower at the presumptive violence and preemptively cave in to the mob's demands that American flags be banned from campus.