Hampshire College: Removal of US Flag

[Mister_T]

While I agree that those areas do have higher population centers, places like Texas and Florida aren't exactly lacking in population. I think it has more to do with political beliefs (liberal vs conservative).

Texas and Florida certainly aren't lacking in population, but they pale in comparison to the North East and California. California alone has more people living in it than Canada.

You'd also be mistaken to assume that all or most California and the North East liberals go along with this drivel just because of how their electoral votes.

 

[Mister_T]

I think it has more to do with political beliefs (liberal vs conservative).

More to the point though, this type of thing is not exclusive to regions of the country that lean left.

 

[Valjean]

The "Banana Wars" was done in the protection of US economic interests with regard to tobacco, sugarcane, and bananas. Spain had ceded control of places like Puerto Rico to the US, not to mention the US had just built the Panama Canal in an effort to promote global trade. Hell yes, the US was protecting its interests.

The US had long claimed the Western Hemisphere as an American sphere of influence. The Monroe Doctrine of 1823, for example, was used to justify America's invasion and annexation of much of Mexico in the 1840s.

Spain "ceded control" in the Treaty of Paris after America seized the Caribbean and Philippines in a imperialistic war with Spain. This included the effective annexation of Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama (which the US had created by fomenting a civil war in Columbia). Puppet dictators and the American Marines rendered these Central American countries corporate plantations, effectively worked by slave labor.

This sort of thing became an American specialty long before WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Wars_Manual

In 1935 Major General Smedly Butler summed up America's imperialistic tendencies brilliantly in his booklet War is a Racket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
Text: https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html#c1

 

[Altfish]

Members of the community view the US flag as a symbol of fear? WTF? You live here in the USA for crying out loud. It is the flag of this nation. If you don't like it, then leave. If you want true fear, try living in an area that is subject to being bombed by rebels, or taken over by ISIS.

In the UK the Union Jack the nation's flag has been hijacked by the far-right; the same is happening in the US.

 

[Valjean]

I was referring to military might. The US was not a super power until during/after WWII. Up until then, the US army was smaller than Portugal's.

Perhaps not a 'superpower', but, after the 1898 Treaty of Paris, it became a major imperialistic player.