Propaganda Report Episode 14: To Burn or Not To Burn (podcast of Dec 3 2016 WSB show)

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I hadn’t heard this before – the caller with the flag lore was repeating an urban legend! (h/t AG) https://t.co/uHqtuMddsu

— Monica Perez (@MonicaPerezShow) December 4, 2016

Some articles of interest from the week with excerpts….

Hampshire College Draws Protests Over Removal of U.S. Flag
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/us/hampshire-college-flag-veterans-protest.html?_r=1

“If it was a political act, it was pretty craven and ineffective since people did it in secret and no one knows what it was meant to state,” Hampshire college’s president, Jonathan Lash, 71, said in a phone interview on Monday. “And we replaced the flag the next day.”
But within a week Mr. Lash had sent an email announcing that the flag was to be taken down altogether. “Some on campus perceived the flag as “a powerful symbol of fear they’ve felt all their lives because they grew up in marginalized communities, never feeling safe….So something that I have been learning about over the six years but I saw with incredible intensity after the election was the genuineness and depth of the fear of people who have grown up with racism,” Lash, said in a statement. “Who look at the deaths on city streets and say, that could easily have been me.”

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