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Western Washington University Cancels All Classes Because of "Online Hate Speech"
iOTW Report ^ | 11/24/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 11/24/2015 1:44:41 PM PST by rightistight

All classes on campus have been cancelled for the immediate future at Western Washington University because someone posted "hate speech" on social media yesterday.

President Bruce Shepard sent out a message to students and staff today, saying that someone posted "hate speech" online "targeted at Western students of color."

"I need to be VERY clear here," he wrote, "we are not talking the merely insulting, rude, offensive commentary that trolls and various other lowlifes seem free to spew, willy nilly, although there has been plenty of that, too. No, this was hate speech."

Thus, all classes have been cancelled.

President Shepard said he could not say what the messages said because "of an ongoing law enforcement investigation."

The person who posted the hate speech may or may not be a student at Western Washington University. There is also "no threat to general campus safety."

However, "as a campus, we will come together to demonstrate our outrage, to listen to each other, and to support each other. So, I have decided to cancel classes today in order to provide that time."

President Shepard added, "Have no doubt: this is not a capitulation to those I described as trolls and lowlifes. We are going after them."


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: college; education; hatespeech
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1 posted on 11/24/2015 1:44:41 PM PST by rightistight
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To: rightistight

No wonder an American college degree is not worth camel spit.


2 posted on 11/24/2015 1:47:23 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: rightistight

Do the students get a refund for the missed classes? We know the answer, fuhgeddaboudit.


3 posted on 11/24/2015 1:48:16 PM PST by C19fan
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To: I want the USA back

Since I am paying my daughter’s tuition to attend that school, I will be demanding some of it back.


4 posted on 11/24/2015 1:48:44 PM PST by TheConservator ("I spent my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men.")
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To: rightistight

Pussy!


5 posted on 11/24/2015 1:48:46 PM PST by Osage Orange (I'm a bigot...because I don't want Muslims coming to America.....)
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To: rightistight

Are there universities that actually educate? Or are they all wrapped up in this nonsense?


6 posted on 11/24/2015 1:49:54 PM PST by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: TheConservator

Better yet pull her out.

L


7 posted on 11/24/2015 1:50:55 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: rightistight

If I was a paying student there I would definitely be thinking law suit right about now.


8 posted on 11/24/2015 1:51:32 PM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: rightistight

At this point, probably the best option is to SHUT DOWN ALL COLLEGES, at least until ADULTS can be found to run them.


9 posted on 11/24/2015 1:51:45 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: rightistight

Bruce Shepard is a poodle. He needs to be fired.


10 posted on 11/24/2015 1:51:47 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: rightistight

Besides displaying his cowardice, this president has just published a simple procedure whereby anyone can shut down his campus. What a fool.


11 posted on 11/24/2015 1:52:49 PM PST by matt1234 (Note to GOPe lurkers: I and thousands like me will NEVER vote for Jeb Bush)
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To: rightistight

Why don’t they shut down when BlacklivesMatter spew their hate speech at whites?


12 posted on 11/24/2015 1:52:50 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: rightistight

So, even the president is a delicate little snowflake?


13 posted on 11/24/2015 1:52:59 PM PST by fwdude
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To: rightistight
Who's giving odds it's democrat activists posting the hate speech? I mean, it's too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel.

99.9% of these red herrings turn out to be left-wing moron drones trying to foment racial hatred.

14 posted on 11/24/2015 1:55:43 PM PST by W. (Make that rubble bounce!)
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However, "as a campus, we will come together to demonstrate our outrage, to listen to each other, and to support each other. So, I have decided to cancel classes today in order to provide that time."

So all the students are given a day off to sit around, hold each other and cry because someone typed something somewhere that made someone else angry? How productive.

As I get older, I now understand a bit more about how God tests us with tough times. They really suck, but often we are the better for it. These kids will enter the workplace someday and reality is going to hit them like a Mack truck.
15 posted on 11/24/2015 1:57:50 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: rightistight

I wonder, will we every see this “hate speech” and be able to determine just how threatening it was for the student body?


16 posted on 11/24/2015 1:58:04 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: rightistight

Well, did he just cancel classes for one day.
Thanksgiving Break starts at many college today or at 4 pm tomorrow. Some even have the whole week off.


17 posted on 11/24/2015 1:58:04 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: TheConservator
Send her to Hillsdale. Do her a favor.
18 posted on 11/24/2015 2:00:23 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: rightistight
Smells similar to the Swastika made with Feces episode ...
19 posted on 11/24/2015 2:01:06 PM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: rightistight

I have my undergrad degree from Western Washington ... can hardly wait for the annual call asking for money


20 posted on 11/24/2015 2:01:15 PM PST by DirtyDawg (eat fruit)
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