{"id":1277869,"date":"2022-02-07T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1277869"},"modified":"2022-02-07T09:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:22:54","slug":"woke-flop-cambridge-university-college-takes-down-divisive-lgbt-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-flop-cambridge-university-college-takes-down-divisive-lgbt-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke Flop: Cambridge University College Takes Down \u2018Divisive\u2019 LGBT Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoke-flop-cambridge-university-college-takes-down-divisive-lgbt-flag%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1277869&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-72491098-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A woke outrage has ensued following the decision from a Cambridge University college&nbsp;to remove an LGBTQ+ flag over concerns that promoting political ideologies serves to \u201cdivide\u201d the student body.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of February, which is when&nbsp;LGBT History Month is honoured in the UK,&nbsp;Gonville &amp; Caius College at Cambridge decided to raise the rainbow flag over one of its buildings. Last week, however, a majority of fellows at the College\u2019s General Meeting voted in favour of a motion that would prohibit the flying of all flags, besides the college\u2019s own colours.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>After the motion was ratified by the College Council, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.varsity.co.uk\/news\/23005\">statement<\/a> was released explaining the decision:&nbsp;\u201cThe College flag is a symbol which unites all in the Caius community. Choosing to fly only the College flag avoids concerns regarding political neutrality, and the difficulty of choosing between the plurality of good causes for which a flag could be flown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlags flown to express opinions about causes and issues, have the potential to divide us. All of us are Caians, so the College flag speaks for all of us. No other flag does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The elite school noted that students still have \u201cconsiderable freedom\u201d to \u201cpublically express their own support for causes\u201d, pointing to a recent rule change allowing \u201cthe display of any legal flag, poster, or similar by students in their rooms, including outward-facing ones\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The college council claimed this strikes \u201ca fair balance between the freedom of individual students to express their political views and the need for Caius itself, as an educational charity, to remain politically neutral.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Progress Pride Flag is flying above Caius to mark the first day of LGBT History Month \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7cVGn3tUwl\">pic.twitter.com\/7cVGn3tUwl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gonville &amp; Caius College (@CaiusCollege) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaiusCollege\/status\/1488437349482651650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet, students at the typically woke university have blasted the decision, with masters student Natasha Naidu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/uk\/cambridge-college-removing-pride-flag-political-neutrality-concerns-backlash-b980903.html\">writing<\/a>: \u201cFeeling betrayed to learn that the CaiusCollege Council voted to ban the flying of any flag other than the college banner at Caius, just a day after the progressive pride flag was flown for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PhD student Anthony Bridgen also said that he felt \u201cbitterly disappointed\u201d by the move, saying: \u201cIt is symbolic of an entrenched, majority cis male, majority white, majority fusty fellowship who neither know nor want to know about the injustices faced by minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the college to make a move contrary to the woke crowd is surprising, given Cambridge\u2019s general lurch to the left in recent years. In October, for example, the&nbsp;Homerton College at the university announced that it would be adding trigger warnings to classic texts and children\u2019s books such as Dr Seuss\u2019 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/25\/cancel-cat-in-the-hat-cambridge-adds-trigger-warnings-to-dr-seuss-books\/\">Cat in the Hat<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>over alleged racist symbolism within the text.<\/p>\n<p>In November, famed Monty Python comedian John Cleese said that he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/10\/john-cleese-cancels-himself-from-cambridge-uni-union-in-protest-over-blacklisting-of-hitler-mocking-historian\/\">pre-emptively cancel himself<\/a> from the university after Cambridge banned an art historian who performed a mocking impression of Adolph Hitler during a debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI apologise to anyone at Cambridge who was hoping to talk with me, but perhaps some of you can find a venue where woke rules do not apply,\u201d Cleese said at the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delingpole: Cambridge University Dumbs Down for \u2018Diversity\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vWpsfFdPMu\">https:\/\/t.co\/vWpsfFdPMu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1349697271110090753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woke outrage has ensued following the decision from a Cambridge University college\u00a0to remove an LGBTQ+ flag over concerns that promoting political ideologies serves to \u201cdivide\u201d the student body. 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