UC Irvine Student Government Leader: American Flag Represents Hate Speech

The student leader crafted a bill banning the flag’s display on campus; ‘almost every professor expressed support’

HOROWITZ (voice-over): “There is a flag that has divided a nation and is pit brother against brother. When this flag was brazenly put up on the campus of the University of California, Irvine, one brave student finally said enough, and took a stand. 
HOROWITZ (on screen): “Somebody hung up a flag, an American flag.”
GUEVARA: “It made people feel very uncomfortable and unsafe in that room.”
HOROWITZ (voice-over): “You see Irvine student government leader, Matthew Guevara, no relation to Che. When faced with the provocative stars and stripes on campus wrote a bill, that banned the flag.” 
HOROWITZ (on screen): “Type of the environment created when the American flag was kind of hang in there in that room?”
GUEVARA: “It was creating a very hostile environment, just because of this flag being out there. It doesn’t make people welcomed at all, to where people won’t even go into space anymore because it was on the wall.”
HOROWITZ (on screen): “What people don’t understand is sometimes to be inclusive you have to exclude things you don’t like.”
GUEVARA: “Exactly, exactly. That’s one thing that I tried to hit on the legislation, that sometimes you have to exclude things.”
HOROWITZ (on screen): “So you wrote a resolution and you should be proud that it passed with a pretty comfortable majority, 60 percent.”
GUEVARA: “I was really amazed by that. It was — almost every professor I talked to was in support. I mean, every graduate student I came across.”
HOROWITZ (on screen): “There was a legitimate view that the American flag — it represents a hate speech.”
GUEVARA: “Yeah. No, exactly. It’s a tool to silence people.”
HOROWITZ (on screen): “You would be equally uncomfortable with the Nazi flag or the ISIS flag in that room, correct?”
GUEVARA: “Yeah. Yeah.
HOROWITZ (on screen): “No question about it.”
GUEVARA: “No question about it.”
HOROWITZ (on screen): “Can you identify evil in this world?”
GUEVARA: “The U.S.”
HOROWITZ (on screen): “Yeah?”
GUEVARA: “Yeah. But the U.S. is the [indecipherable]”
HOROWITZ (on screen): “But evil, like top of the list?”
GUEVARA: “Yes, top of the list, definitely.”
HOROWITZ (on screen): “I got to tell you, man, this conversation, my mind, blown! Blown.”

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