Faculty Members at Boston University Object After Pride Flags Are Removed Under New Policy
“I find it dispiriting that a symbol that is intended to signal to everybody that they’re welcome is being treated the same way as symbols of hate”
The school has a new policy on window displays and has removed pride flags from windows during spring break. The objecting professors are crying free speech, naturally.
The student paper, the Daily Free Press, reports:
‘That’s selective enforcement’: BU professors mobilize after University removes pride flags during spring break
Faculty are speaking out against Boston University’s signage policy amid ongoing disagreements over the removal of public-facing pride flags in office windows, an issue faculty say is an unnecessary breach of free speech.
Several faculty members sent letters to BU President Melissa Gilliam after pride flags were stripped from the windows of three campus locations, including the office of one professor who has a storied history with the signage policy, while Commonwealth Avenue was vacant for spring break.
The University has not responded to faculty as of Tuesday evening, faculty members told The Daily Free Press.
BU’s administration removed pride flags on display at three locations: the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies offices at 704 Commonwealth Ave., Liz Bettini’s office in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at 2 Silber Way and Nathan Phillips’ office in the College of Arts and Sciences at 675 Comm. Ave.
“I find it dispiriting that a symbol that is intended to signal to everybody that they’re welcome is being treated the same way as symbols of hate,” Bettini said. “It seems like the University is under the impression that we have to treat all symbols, all expression, in the same way [and] that in order to comply with free speech policies, we have to treat the pride flag the same way we would treat a swastika.”
The removals are part of a crackdown for violations of the signage rules detailed in BU’s Events and Demonstrations Policy. Signage cannot be outward facing, meaning it “may not be affixed to any University-owned property, including walls, windows, or furniture,” the policy reads.
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Pride flags are like mosques: they’re really political statements used to stake out turf.
Pride flags aren’t “signs that everybody is welcome,” they’re territorial markers, like dog piss on a lamppost. They are signs clearly stating that a small minority is privileged here, while normal people are far less welcome. Ask Sarah Huckabee Sanders how welcome she feels.
“I find it dispiriting that a symbol that is intended to signal to everybody that they’re welcome is being treated the same way as symbols of hate”
WELCOME.
Deviants proudly twisting words.
The so-called “pride flag” is a symbol of hate which says “Christians and traditional family values not welcome.”
“I find it dispiriting that a symbol that is intended to signal to everybody that they’re welcome is being treated the same way as symbols of hate.”
Meanwhile, never forget this, from just 90 miles away from this fraud at BU:
It’s Interesting they removed those signs now. March is the time parents are visiting the campus with their kids and deciding what school to go to.
Nah. They’ve already decided. Decisions have already gone out. Nobody waits to your campuses until after they find out what their options are. They look in the fall.
After objecting to the Pride Flag being flown under the US flag over our Veterans Memorial at our Town Hall, I was subjected to nothing but hate from the radical progressive left militants in my town. I was smeared by a Town Councilor in the local paper and even had my tires slashed on Easter Weekend in my own driveway. Try to tell me that that multi-color rag is anything other than the symbol of hate embraced by the militant intolerant left.
Semi OT: they change the ‘Pride’ flag so often that I am not sure what it looks like anymore. Last year (on a churrch) I saw a version with the Palestinian colors tacked onto the Transgendendered colors.
I hope they make parachutes in that pattern.
as long as they continue to sign that blk national anthem
“A symbol that is intended to signal to everybody that they’re welcome is being treated the same way as symbols of hate”
Isn’t that sort of the definition of content neutrality?