(Crossposted at your flippant and irreverent source for Ohio politics and humor, Athens Runaway)

When thirteen year-old Taryn Hathaway (no relation!) went to her art class at Gavilan View Middle School, in Salinas, CA, little did she know that she’d become the latest example of the anti-Americanism inherent to liberalism.

In Taryn’s art class, the teacher gave an assignment, saying that students were free to draw whatever they wanted, with the only restriction being that the finished product use pointillism to create the image.  When Taryn showed her art teacher what she had sketched so far, Taryn’s teacher replied that her picture was, quote, “offensive.”

However, according to Taryn, another student who chose President Obama as his or her art project, was praised by the teacher.

Many Bothans died to bring you a picture of the drawing that the Gavilan View Middle School teacher praised and didn’t call “offensive”.

I keed, I keed.  That’s not really the picture.  But the teacher who found the American flag “offensive” did praise a student who drew Obama.  Coincidence?  I think not.

Back in 2008, on the campaign trail, now-First Lady Michelle Obama said that “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country”.  Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, accused America of being “a nation of cowards” when it came to discussing racial issues, saying that we didn’t talk about race enough. And when I say “don’t talk about race enough,” I mean “don’t get lectured by Professor Obama about why we’re bad people enough.”

You see, to a liberal, America is—as Michelle Obama noted—”just downright mean.”  To a liberal, doctors skulk about in the dark to steal kids’ tonsils, for no other reason than to make the most money possible.

To a liberal, it’s the job of the president to “spread the wealth around” and “fundamentally change the United States of America.”

We’ve already seen inklings of that fundamental change that liberalism seeks to impose on us, come hell or high water—dissent is no longer patriotic, criticism of the government is racism, and so on.  We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

Also in The People’s Republic of California, three grade-school boys were punished by their school’s vice-president.  The punishment?  Wearing t-shirts with the American flag on Cinco de Mayo.  Why?  Let’s ask one of the boys who were threatened with suspension if they didn’t take off the offensive t-shirts, Daniel Galli:

They said we “could wear it on any other day, but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today.”

Excuse me?  Cinco de Mayo is “their holiday”?  By any indication, Cinco de Mayo is “a regional holiday limited primarily to the state of Puebla” and is “virtually ignored in Mexico.”

One of the Mexican-American students who were supposedly so offended by the shirts, una chica tonta se llama Annicia Nunez, who is too stupid to understand her home country’s own traditions, blamed the American kids for loving their country, saying that she “[thought] they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day.”  Yeaaah.. no.  It’s not.

Interestingly, while Live Oak High School punishes kids for wearing t-shirts with the American flag, they sponsor a Mexican nationalist group called MeCHA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán) , whose own stated mission statement says:

As Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlán, we are a nationalist movement of Indigenous Gente that lay claim to the land that is ours by birthright. As a nationalist movement we seek to free our people from the exploitation of an oppressive society that occupies our land. Thus, the principle of nationalism serves to preserve the cultural traditions of La Familia de La Raza and promotes our identity as a Chicana/Chicano Gente.

In other words, reconquista.  In Obama’s America, Americans being patriotic is “incendiary,” but marching to support illegal immigration, the conquering and subjugation of Americans and Americans, and the stifling of free speech is okay.  Just like Obama ruled that voter intimidation was okay, when it benefits him.

Ugh.