Good grief: chanting 'USA!' in the USA now deemed unpatriotic

Openly rooting for you own country is now unpatriotic. 

Chanting 'USA' is unpatriotic... in the USA? So writes David Green, University of Illinois 'Academic Professional' (the heck is an 'academic professional?' A professor? Administrator? Staff?) 

The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent killing of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation.

1) There is no 'Palestine.' 2) The implications are ones he is himself divining. 3) Is there some requirement out there that 9/11 observances be politically neutral? 4) If they  are not politically neutral, what then is the political agenda as a result of said observance? That is, what is it polarized towards? Further:

The observance at Saturday's football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted "USA, USA." This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda and bellicosity.

And perhaps the laugher of the entire piece:

The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) "patriotic."

Liberals run academia. It's not even close. And if you thin conservative viewpoints are tolerated, you're kidding yourself. It won't surprise you to know that Green is a dhimmi, pointing out that Muslims could be offended by the chant. But he's wrong. You don't have to be a Muslim. Being an 'academic professional' is all it takes.

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/09/good-grief-chanting-usa-in-usa-now.html

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