Texas campus in uproar after protesters hold signs declaring ‘women are property’ on quad after Trump victory
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The protestors are members of Official Street Preachers, an organization that ‘covers global and local events from a Christian perspective’. Hours before Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her concession speech, two Christian protestors caused disruption on a Texas university campus with signs that branded women “property” and used homophobic slurs.
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The incident at Texas State University at San Marcos united students on both sides of the political aisle in anger as the men paraded around for an hour before being escorted off the property. Eva De Arment, a 19-year-old sophomore, was in the university’s English building waiting for class to start when she saw Snapchat images of the signs, including one that listed “women” and “slaves” alongside cars as “property.”.
Horrified, she rushed to the building’s office, asked for a sharpie, grabbed a flyer on the table and wrote: “There is still love in the world! LOVE THY NEIGHBORS.”. “I kind of ran out there and just kind of stood in front of those dudes and started talking,” De Arment told The Independent in a phone call on Wednesday. Trying to distract from the men behind her, she held up her sign and told her peers: “We can’t stand divided like this. We can’t let this hate get to us.”.
“I do believe that there is a nuance that the election made them comfortable enough to come onto a campus with signs like that,” she said. “I am afraid.”. In a written statement, Texas State University said the two protesters who appeared on campus — confirmed to be affiliated with the Official Street Preachers, an organization that “covers global and local events from a Christian perspective,” according to the organization’s website — were not tied to the university.
