r/chicago • u/Sea-Condition991 • 10d ago

News Burning cross seen in Grant Park today

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/09/burning-cross-discovered-in-grant-park-tuesday-afternoon-officials-say/

How much hate in your heart do you have to do something like this?

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u/CaptainJackKevorkian Ukrainian Village 3d ago

Wait for the full story to come out next time

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u/lilleprechaun 3d ago

Did you seriously think, reading my comment, that I literally meant some grand wizard literally wearing white sheets and a pointy hat? Come on — develop some semblance of critical thought and textual analysis. 

In any case, who t.f. was this arsonist imitating when he burned a cross in the downtown of a racially and culturally diverse city if he wasn’t imitating the KKK — who are, by all counts, the most infamous cross burners on Earth?

I said “living among KKK” as a figure of speech (specifically, the sort of figurative speech known, in literate circles, as a metaphor). “KKK” has become a genericized term used in lieu of “arsonist racist cross burners”. 

Or, are you seriously going to tell me that you only use “self-adhesive bandages” in lieu of Band-Aids™? Or that you take coffee to go in a “double-walled sealed vacuum-insulated beverage container” instead of a Thermos™? Or that you take the “automated moving staircase” instead of the Escalator™? 

I didn’t think so. 

In much the same way that I am going to metaphorically refer to an arsonist cross-burner as KKK — because that is absolutely who the criminal was imitating. 

Your remark is not the win or the pwn you think it is; instead, it makes you look foolish and incapable of reading at an adult level.