{"id":22350,"date":"2019-12-17T20:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=22350"},"modified":"2019-12-17T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:11:16","slug":"22350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=22350","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/pro-gun-message-supplants-pro-transgender-slogan-on-u-virginia-bridge\/\">Pro-gun message supplants pro-transgender slogan on U. Virginia bridge.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The University of Virginia\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.virginia.edu\/content\/painting-beta-bridge-tradition-expression\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beta Bridge<\/a>\u00a0has played host to student messages for some 50 years. Most recently, the bridge featured the mural \u201cPROTECT BLACK TRANS WOMEN,\u201d but this was painted over during the weekend with a pro-Second Amendment slogan.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavalierdaily.com\/article\/2019\/12\/pro-gun-messages-repeatedly-written-over-protect-black-trans-women-painting-on-beta-bridge\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cavalier Daily<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0the terms \u201c2A\u201d and \u201cGUNS\u201d were painted, while \u201cWOMEN\u201d was crossed out. The original message, put up by the SABLE Society, was\u00a0<em>re<\/em>painted, but was again modified with the pro-gun terms.<\/p>\n<p>The report notes the gun message appears to reference various Virginia towns\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/virginias-second-amendment-sanctuaries-an-update\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatening to become Second Amendment \u201csanctuaries\u201d<\/a>\u00a0if the newly Democrat-controlled state legislature follows through with (allegedly) unconstitutional firearm restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known who is responsible for the pro-gun message.<\/p>\n<p>UVA spokesman Brian Coy said that although the bridge \u201cis a long recognized public forum that may on occasion cause controversy or disagreement,\u201d the university acknowledges \u201cthat people, particularly black trans women, feel demeaned or threatened by this message and the way it appeared.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-gun message supplants pro-transgender slogan on U. Virginia bridge. The University of Virginia\u2019s\u00a0Beta Bridge\u00a0has played host to student messages for some 50 years. Most recently, the bridge featured the mural \u201cPROTECT BLACK TRANS WOMEN,\u201d but this was painted over during the weekend with a pro-Second Amendment slogan. According to\u00a0The Cavalier Daily,\u00a0the terms \u201c2A\u201d and \u201cGUNS\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=22350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22351,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22350\/revisions\/22351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}