Disaster A teen was beaten for carrying the pride flag at school. His classmates support the bully.

A teen was beaten for carrying the pride flag at school. His classmates support the bully.

The attacker could face hate crime charges...

www.queerty.com

A 17-year-old student continues to recover following a brutal beating by a classmate. The reason for the attack: The bully saw his victim carrying the pride flag.

The incident happened at Southwestern High School in the southern community of Piasa, Illinois. School administrators had promoted a “red, white, and blue,” day encouraging students to bring their favorite flags to school. The Jacksonville Journal-Courier reports that when a classmate noticed the student’s pride flag, he asked him to throw it away. When the student refused, his classmate attacked him, punching him in the head.

At the time of this writing, the extent of the victim’s injuries remains unclear.


Police later detained the assailant and charged him with excessive battery. He remains at a juvenile detention center and could face hate crime charges in the future.

Fellow students at Southwestern High, meanwhile, have sided with the bully.

“You wear a gay Pride flag to school and you don’t expect people to do anything? You go to Southern (sic) High, where we support the Confederate flag and you wonder why you get beat up?” one student posted to social media.


“It’s disrespectful to wear a pride flag on patriotic day, it’s not queer day,” another posted.

The victim’s brother also released screenshots of a terse conversation he had with a fellow student. When he asked what happened that got a student arrested, the “friend” showed little sympathy.

“Some gay kid brought a gay pride flag in and some kid beat the [expletive] out of him,” the classmate said, punctuating his statement with laughing emojis.


When the victim’s brother objected, the classmate showed no sympathy.

“Well don’t send him in a country ass school wearin’ some gay (expletive) if you don’t want his ass beat.”

2021 has seen a number of attacks on LGBTQ students and the pride flag in high schools across the United States. In Florida, a group of students carrying makeshift Confederate flags attacked a group of students promoting the school’s queer-straight alliance. In May, a 14-year-old student endured an attack from classmates for carrying the pride flag to school. In April, video of students defacing the pride flag at a Colorado high school went viral.

 

[NoReturn]

That or a rapey little weirdo.

This was actually my first thought as well. Some creep hiding behind his rainbow flag.

 

[Kheapathic]

Look, I'm not cartographer or keen on every state/territory that took sides during our Civil War... but Illinois is pretty fucking North to be considered "southern."

But what the fuck would I know, girls can have penises now in this gay ass day and age.

 

[Idiotron]

Stop inserting your alphabet shit into everything and maybe less people will want to insert their boots up your asshole.

 

[DumbDude42]

“You wear a gay Pride flag to school and you don’t expect people to do anything? You go to Southern (sic) High, where we support the Confederate flag and you wonder why you get beat up?” one student posted to social media.

unfathomably based

 

[Mr. Bung]

Those reports are very careful not to go into detail, because inevitably people aren't supporting the T. Take them out of the equation and acceptance is still rising, but people will always be wary of troons, no matter how much they're commanded to suck the girldick and respect the Aiden.

People aren't falling for it. They know that many troons are just doing it to make it easier to prey on women and children. There is no way you can bully/threaten/reeducate people away from the instinctual fight or flight response that has been keeping people alive for millions of years.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

unfathomably based

I love the smell of astroturf in the morning

 

[elite_club]

I keep seeing screenshots of reports and headlines saying acceptance of LGBT among the youth (which I assume means younger than 25 or 21 currently) is declining, despite all signs pointing in the other direction. Then I remember a lot of people around my age have to "walk the walk" just to not get cancelled, and they can't actually control what we think (yet).

Forcing people into something is the quickest way to make them resent it, especially if there is non-stop propaganda everywhere.

"Then one day, for no reason at all"

 

[Glowie Hunter Art Bell]

The school appears to be in corn-fed farmer country: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.118...4!1sP67dm0_kcDZXOndSYbOJxg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

The only joggers you're gonna see out in those parts are ones who got lost on their way to St. Louis.

IL actually has a few wierd bumfuck nowhere black only towns (Pembroke/Hopkins) but I dont believe this is one of them

Most blacks in rural areas aren't nig nogs anyway, but there are exceptions

 

[BerriesArnold]

Notice they said "classmates" and not "friends". I'm not going to make presuppositions, but I conjecture that this kid was pretty hated already. Not for being gay, but perhaps for being an ostentatious clown.

 

[seri0us]

Don't the queergays have a whole month to flaunt their flag and shit? They'll never be happy.

They have almost half the year in dedicated days / weeks / months.

They have two now. October is "LGBT History Month" apparently.

LGBT History Month - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Make sure to celebrate this crucial and all too fleeting holiday.

 

[Glowie Hunter Art Bell]

Look, I'm not cartographer or keen on every state/territory that took sides during our Civil War... but Illinois is pretty fucking North to be considered "southern."

But what the fuck would I know, girls can have penises now in this gay ass day and age.

Illinois south of I-80 is essentially Mississippi light lol. I dont mean that in a bad way

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

I love the smell of astroturf in the morning

There is no way any of those comments are genuine. They sound exactly like what coastal elites think country folk talk like. They're right out of a bad, low budget movie about how evil and backward lower class whites are.

Notice how the "attacker" wasn't doxed and none of these supposed comments are linked to, just quoted? I'd put the odds at 80% didn't even happen, 15% orchestrated false flag, 4.9% did happen but was committed by a minority so they can't go into detail, .1% happened as described.

Actually, .1% is probably too generous considering how these Totally Real Students kept making sure to describe themselves and their evil, evil school as "southern", which absolutely no rural people do north of the Mason Dixon line. That's yet another out of touch upper class delusion.

 

[DumbDude42]

Notice they said "classmates" and not "friends". I'm not going to make presuppositions, but I conjecture that this kid was pretty hated already. Not for being gay, but perhaps for being an ostentatious clown.

if he was already getting bullied he wouldn't be doing attention grabbing stunts like that i think

 

[Troutsmacked]

Based. You have entire gigantic pozzed urban centers to wave your gay shit around in. Keep it there faggot.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Everyone always supports the bully right up until he loses. There's only one option, to beat the bully you have to be the bully.

 

[elite_club]

They have two now. October is "LGBT History Month" apparently.

LGBT History Month - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Then what is the point of Pride month? Why do LGBT get two months while black people get the shortest month and two days, while Hispanics get a 30 day period stretched over two months and a holiday meant for mexicans used by white people to justify alcohol binging?

 

[Honest Coyote]

This either didn't happen or is missing major sections of the surrounding context. This matches too perfectly to the "Gays are heckin brave n valid, and pure cinnamon buns too good for this world." I could see people calling him a faggot for the flag, but a beating over the flag is a pretty major escalation.

 

[Pentex]

In April, video of students defacing the pride flag at a Colorado high school went viral.

What sort of heckin' monsterino would dare harm a flag important to other people?

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office dropped two felony charges against a trans woman arrested on Sunday at a Pride event June 13, but will proceed to trial on two misdemeanor charges.


ReeAnna Segin, a trans woman from New Jersey, was arrested at the Pride parade on Sunday after she attempted to set fire to a flag in support of law enforcement during the celebration.

The D.A.’s office dropped the attempted arson and causing/risking a catastrophe felony charges “after additional investigation into the incident,” spokesman Ben Waxman said in a statement. The misdemeanor charges include possession of an instrument of crime and recklessly endangering another person.

Segin held up the blue-line “Blue Lives Matter” flag along with a can of VM&P Naphtha, a paint thinner, in the middle of a crowd on 12th and Locust before police officers arrested her. The D.A.’s office said her backpack also included two road flares and a blue lighter stick.

Segin gave officers her dead name — her name that was assigned at birth — and was transferred to the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, a men’s prison, after being held at police headquarters.

Her bail was set at $5,000, with 10 percent required for her release. Segin was released June 11 after several activist groups, including Philly Socialists and Philly for REAL Justice, raised more than $2,500 through Venmo and PayPal from online supporters.

Amber Hikes, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs, joined Segin’s father and community organizers to help post bail. In response to a commenter on Facebook asking why Segin was housed the men’s prison, Hikes replied, “The policy of the Department of Corrections is to house individuals according to sex assigned at birth. Our office is currently working with the [department] to change the policy but it’s a long battle.”



The Philly Socialists, a grassroots group, supported Segin after her arrest and provided updates on her status via social media. The group condemned the presence of police at Pride celebrations.

In a statement following Segin’s release, Philly Socialists wrote: “As an institution, the police have no place at Pride. Police presence at Pride represents an affront to LGBTQ people and people of color, who daily face threats of unjustified, brutal violence and death at the hands of the police state. We must not forget the courageous work of trans women of color activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, whose actions at Stonewall against the dehumanizing systems of police oppression laid the groundwork for Pride and for the LGBT movement as a whole.”

D.A. withdraws felony charges in flag-burning — Philadelphia Gay News

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office dropped two felony charges against a trans woman arrested on Sunday at a Pride event June 13, but will proceed to trial on two misdemeanor charges. ReeAnna Segin, a trans woman from New Jersey, was arrested at the Pride parade on Sunday after she...

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[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Why would a school have a "bring a flag to school" day? It's asking for nothing but trouble because the Mexicans will bring their flag to school and fight with the white MAGA kids and their Gadsden flags and Confederate flags. And all the black kids will stab each other because they get to bring the flag of their favorite sports team which coincidentally has the same colors as their gang.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Illinois south of I-80 is essentially Mississippi light lol. I dont mean that in a bad way

Not even that. I still remember visiting the Carbondale campus and my mom bring astounded at how utterly hickish it was, even to a Southerner who lived right next to Mississippi.