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Students are complaining about this year’s choice to headline George Washington University’s Spring Fling event, calling rapper Action Bronson “a blatant misogynist.”

An editorial from The Hatchet’s opinion editor, Sarah Blugis, lays out the case:

Bronson has a history of public transphobia, and has mocked transgender people on Instagram. He’s also been widely criticized for his song “Consensual Rape,” in which he describes drugging and raping a woman. One of his music videos, for a song called “Brunch,” depicts Bronson cooking a meal next to a woman’s dead body, putting her body in the trunk of his car, then stabbing her repeatedly while shouting gendered insults. Due to this controversy, he was pulled from the lineup of last year’s NXNE music festival in Toronto …

…Some have argued that if you look, you can find something wrong with almost any artist – and that’s true. However, they’ve also argued that critics are “too sensitive.” But Bronson glorifies, embraces and glamorizes the rape and murder of women, and that’s something we should be sensitive about.

While GWU spokesperson Kurtis Hiatt told The Hatchet in an email that, “The Program Board’s decision to host this artist does not imply a University endorsement of his views,” the editorial takes issue with the fact that the school will still sign a paycheck for the rapper.

In a Facebook post, the GWU Program Board responded:

Program Board does not in any way condone the rhetoric of [“Consensual Rape”], and we have received assurances from Mr. Bronson’s team that it will not be performed at Spring Fling. We hope students will continue to discuss Mr. Bronson and the entirety of his work and decide for themselves whether it has merit.

For its part, GW Students Against Sexual Assault said in a Facebook post that it was “proud of GWU Program Board for acknowledging this situation and for moving forward proactively, in order to hold events that are inclusive for all GW students’ experiences.”

In a later post, GW SASA said, “We encourage survivors to respond to this performance in whichever ways they feel comfortable doing so.”

A Change.org petition to drop Bronson from the April 2 concert has more than 200 signatures.