[Richard]

Seems to me the letter (below) is offering support for the student's protected {1A) rights, and not agreement with their failed resolution.

Richard

UCI Student Support Letter

To the Legislative Council:

We write to support the six members who offered the resolution to remove national flags from the ASUCI lobby. The university ought to respect their political position and meet its obligation to protect and promote their safety. The resolution recognized that nationalism, including U.S. nationalism, often contributes to racism and xenophobia, and that the paraphernalia of nationalism is in fact often used to intimidate. This is a more or less uncontroversial scholarly point, and in practice the resolution has drawn admiration nationally from much of the academic community. In fact, the resolution's perspective has been completely borne out by recent events. Over the weekend, UCI has been inundated with racist, xenophobic comments and death threats against the students from people who are, precisely, invested in the paraphernalia of nationalism. UCI's official Facebook page, for example, has filled up with violent and racist remarks. Its official moderator, representing UCI, has neither repudiated the comments nor deleted them--even the death threats. Meanwhile the university has linked its own communications to Fox News, a notoriously inaccurate media source associated with racism, xenophobia and U.S. nationalism. We are afraid that Chancellor Gillman's response [http://chancellor.uci.edu/about/writ...-actions.html] will have the effect of licensing further harassment. We admire the courage of the resolution's supporters amid this environment of political immaturity and threat, and support them unequivocally.

Sincerely,
{Signed}

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