Massachusetts middle school students tear down rainbow decorations and chant their pronouns are ‘U.S.A.’ during Pride celebration: Officials slam ‘intolerance and homophobia’

Massachusetts middle schoolers tore down Pride decorations and chanted that their pronouns were ‘USA’ in a striking protest after they were asked to wear rainbow colors to school. 

Students at Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington, Massachusetts, were asked to wear rainbow-colored shirts to celebrate Pride Month on June 2, but a preplanned protest broke out with students tearing up Pride flag stickers and chanting: ‘USA are my pronouns.’ 

Decked out in red, white and blue, the students destroyed the decorations lining the hallway the student organization Spectrum Group distributed, including a quote from American playwright Tennessee Williams, signage saying the school was a ‘safe space’ and ‘equality for everyone’ decorations. 

‘I was shocked and horrified,’ Nila Almstrom, a parent of an LGBT student, said at a town hall meeting about the protest. 

Parents have told local news outlets their straight-identifying students said they felt forced to participate and were ‘offended’ by the Tennessee Williams quote that reiterated that the human heart is ‘curved like a road through the mountains’ and only lines and streets can be straight. 

‘My daughter just said, “You know, mom, that’s offensive to me, I am straight,”‘ Christine Steiner told WCVB. ‘Some of the kids threw the stickers on the ground. But I can only speak for my daughter, she just didn’t want to wear that to school. It’s not that she wanted to hurt anybody’s feelings.’ 

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As always, the left is doing mind-control by commandeering metacognitive categories and insisting there can be no others. When these categories (required vocabularies, flags, patches, misquotes, etc) are opposed even slightly, those with differing views are deemed ‘intolerant’, ‘phobic’, or ‘hateful’. These nasty words comprise yet another metacognitive level, which the left always commandeers along with the first. Ironically by making such strict distinctions between right and wrong, the ‘tolerant’ left is itself being extremely binary. The way to stop this crazy use of language and the ludicrous policies that flow from it is confront them at the metacognitive level as Christine Steiner’s daughter is doing in the highlight above. ‘Inclusion’ that ostracizes and punishes those with different views is absurd on its face. ABN