Television host and outspoken conservative Mike Rowe often has a solid approach to addressing our nation’s issues, and his latest Facebook post was no different.
Rowe explained that he had seen images of college students burning the American flag and recalled how the president of Hampshire College, Jonathan Lash, had taken down the American flag when students expressed “fear” and “discomfort” at the sight of it, according to TheBlaze.
The former “Dirty Jobs” host posed an interesting question to this institution and others like it: Why take federal tuition money from the government whose flag and ideals you obviously hate and fear?
Lash infamously raised the specter of America’s “racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and behaviors” in a Facebook post in his legitimation of “removing the flag permanently” from the Hampshire College campus.
Rowe, on the other hand, along with millions of common-sense conservatives, saw the major flaws in this argument that ignored the fact that, even if our country has these problems, at least we live in a nation where they can be dealt with, unlike so many other countries.
“I couldn’t help but wonder if President Lash was unaware that billions of people around the world are routinely subjected to horrific levels of racism, misogyny and bigotry that far exceed any injustice in modern-day America,” Rowe wrote.
“Furthermore, I was curious to know if President Lash really believed that removing our flag is a better way to assuage the fears of his frightened students, than simply educating them about the undeniable fact that no country on the planet affords its citizens more liberty than this one,” he continued.
But the height of this hypocrisy, Rowe pointed out, was that Lash allowed his students to pay for their $60,000-per-year tuition with federal money — “federal dollars provided by the same government whose flag was no longer suitable to fly at his school,” he noted.
Rowe pointed to the massive student loan debt in our country and wondered how some of these students — who, apparently, “despise” the American flag and everything it represents — would simultaneously happily take money from the U.S. government.
“In other words, taxpayers are paying stacks of money to universities and colleges who then turn around and spit on the country — and those who uphold its values — that pays for that education through federal grants,” he wrote.
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