Northwestern U. LGBT Community Freaks Out Over Obscure Flag Painted on a Rock
“Concerned students and faculty worked together over email chains in the following days to research the markings and allusion to the duke of Burgundy”
Everything about this story is stupid. It’s amazing how the left freaked out without even knowing what this was.
The College Fix reports:
‘Cruel behavior’: Northwestern U. LGBT community triggered by obscure flag painted on rock
A red cross and a reference to a 15th century French duke has caused an uproar at Northwestern University as LGBT students and professors fear for their safety.
Around Jan. 6, someone painted a “Cross of Burgundy” and wrote “CHARLES THE BOLD DUKE OF BURGUNDY 10 NOV 1433 — 5 JAN 1477” over a “trans flag” on campus. Students regularly paint over “The Rock” with various messages.
Even though the first person to report the cross did not know what it meant, she felt unsafe for her life.
“Something felt really off, and that visual cue, especially on a memorial for a trans student, just felt like something was wrong up there,” Smith Yarberry told The Daily Northwestern. Yarberry is gender-confused, sometimes just goes by “S.” and uses “they” pronouns. Her real name is “Sofia.”
The flag caused an immediate reaction as Yarberry, a “sixth-year English Ph.D. candidate” who writes “erotic” poetry,” and other LGBT individuals and allies jumped into action.
“Concerned students and faculty worked together over email chains in the following days to research the markings and allusion to the duke of Burgundy,” the student newspaper reported. “Others reached out to Student Affairs separately to notify the University about the symbol.”
The “chevroned X,” “was adopted by a Spanish pro-fascist group in the 20th century,” the team of researchers concluded.
“It’s one thing to go repaint the entire rock white with a red (symbol) and take away the trans memorial,” Yarberry (pictured) told the student newspaper. “But to use the trans memorial as the backdrop for a symbol associated with Nazism and fascist ideologies, that is a very political statement.”
While Yarberry and others were painting over the X, “a student approached them and took responsibility for painting the cross.”
“[T]he student mostly defended the decision as solely expressing interest in the duke of Burgundy. The person did not identify themself,” the newspaper reported.
That was not enough for the aggrieved LGBT members and allies, some of whom connected it to their broader problems with Northwestern.
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“Even though the first person to report the cross did not know what it meant, she felt unsafe for her life.
“Something felt really off, and that visual cue, especially on a memorial for a trans student, just felt like something was wrong up there,” Smith Yarberry told The Daily Northwestern. Yarberry is gender-confused, sometimes just goes by “S.” and uses “they” pronouns. Her real name is “Sofia.”
The flag caused an immediate reaction as Yarberry, a “sixth-year English Ph.D. candidate” who writes “erotic” poetry,” and other LGBT individuals and allies jumped into action.”
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““[T]he student mostly defended the decision as solely expressing interest in the duke of Burgundy. The person did not identify themself,” the newspaper reported.”.
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I’m embarrassed this is my alma mater.
Apparently themself is a word now?
Erotic poetry? If you ever see this chick driving her car, don’t get anywhere near in line with it, either in front OR in back.
“Even though the first person to report the cross did not know what it meant, she felt unsafe for her life.”
It was the fourth time that morning she had feared for her life, including when her Keurig made a grinding noise while brewing her coffee, when a crow eyed her aggressively through her apartment window, and when an icon of a man sitting on a toilet appeared on her car dashboard.
Meanwhile, in the School of History, Dean Wormer rubbed his hands in glee at the success of his evil plan to make his students perform actual research.
Perhaps the Duke’s friend was schizophrenic.
she felt unsafe b/c
it was the rock that she crawled out under from
Maybe it’s related to this?
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_duke_of_burgundy
Some LGBT soft core porn movie from the UK
“While Yarberry and others were painting over the X, “a student approached them and took responsibility for painting the cross.
“[T]he student mostly defended the decision as solely expressing interest in the duke of Burgundy. The person did not identify themself,” the newspaper reported.”
Matt Walsh, call your office.
Smith Yarberry. a woman with two last names, feared for her life because it was Saturday. Tomorrow she’ll fear for her life because it will be Sunday.
Sixth year Ph.D. candidate? After 6 years of graduate work, she should have her Ph.D. or get a job. Six years from starting college is relatively quick. My dad got his Ph.D. in Chemistry 7 years after graduating from high school.
Hey, erotic poetry is TOUGH.
Just the research itself is a total bitch when you don’t know what a woman is.
She skated through her master’s thesis with a book of masturbation limericks, but they’re not going to let her get off that easy this time.
That does seem odd. I think the author may have meant she was in her 6th year of college, 4 undergrad and then has spent 2 years in the PhD pipeline. I can’t believe she has been in college 10yrs but she is confused about other things and feels unsafe over a rock painting so it’s possible.
But to use the trans memorial as the backdrop for a symbol associated with Nazism and fascist ideologies, that is a very political statement.
And “trans” whatever symbols are not “political statements”?
Go sit in the corner, honey, and think long and hard about what you just said. Maybe you can figure out why your statement is so absurd and contradictory.
LGBT paranoia signals a very maladjusted, very confused crazy person. It needs help that it’s never going to get. No, instead it gets validation and support, encouragement to keep wallowing in the insanity. Sad!
Socially useless snowflakes…a stain on humanity.
0430 on a Monday morning and I’m looking up the Duke of Burgundy’s Crest. Never saw this coming.