Posted on 05/15/2016 7:02:51 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
A display created by Dartmouth College Republicans to honor fallen police officers was torn down by Black Lives Matter activists and replaced with a hateful message about honoring the "perpetrators" of anti-black violence.
The Republicans reserved space on the campus bulletin board and followed all school regulations. But the BLM radicals removed the display without permission, saying that it was "offensive" to blacks and "white supremacist."
Daily Caller:
At the bottom, the display said in big letters, “BLUE LIVES MATTER.”
This last part of the display appears to have outraged Black Lives Matter supporters at Dartmouth, several of whom vocally complained on Twitter and Facebook that the display was offensive and even “white supremacist.”
But Black Lives Matter did more than just complain. The original display was torn down Friday morning, at about 11 a.m, and in its place almost three dozen sheets of paper were used to cover the bulletin board, all of them carrying an identical message: “YOU CANNOT CO-OPT THE MOVEMENT AGAINST STATE VIOLENCE TO MEMORIALIZE THE PERPETRATORS.” At the bottom, each sheet also had the hashtag “#blacklivesmatter”.
The Black Lives Matter activists declared that the original display had been “censored on behalf of the students,” according to an eyewitness who spoke with The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Dartmouth’s College Republicans quickly released a statement via Facebook denouncing the stunt.
“As an organization, we took the time and effort to obtain proper approval for the display while putting significant thought into its content,” the statement says. “We are dismayed that a group of students would attempt to censor our message while coopting the space for their own purposes.”
Mikala Williams, one of the students involved in tearing down the original display, told The Dartmouth that her action was justified because the original display promoted violence against black people.
“It was taken down by students and replaced because it actively co-opted a movement that is supposed to comment on police brutality against black individuals in this country,” she said. “It took that and by framing that as ‘Blue Lives Matter,’ it normalizes and naturalizes violence against people of color in this country. And that is not okay.”
BLM is doing exactly what they accuse the police of doing: judging by the group. In their eyes, police aren't just the enemy. Every police officer who loses his life in the line of duty is only getting what he deserves.
In this wacky universe, the fact that almost all black criminals killed by police were armed and threatening both the cops and the general public is glossed over. The very small number of unarmed blacks mistakenly killed by police is exaggerated and becomes "proof" that black lives don't matter to the cops, that the police are waging a "war" on blacks.
Where is the school administration on this?
They’re the real problem.
Good question.
Well, since our colleges are allowing these immature, ignorant babies to act like five year olds we’ll be seeing a lot more of this.
Its mob rule.
When they enter the real world it won't be bean bags and rubber bullets.
They need to be expelled and shipped out of New Hampshire immediately.
They really should be ‘shipped out’ of America.
The problem is, this becomes self fulfilling prophecy on both sides.
The people have become low and coarse and callous; so have the sworn officers of the system.
Maybe.
Anyhow, acting like the world has been lost because some unattended paper was torn down, seems like something liberals would do. Seems to me conservatives might pass out flyers in person, or something like that.
Find out who did it, put them and their families on the no calls for service assistance list, and when they need help screw ‘em. Let ‘em kill their own.
The glorification of thuggery continues
This is mindset of spoiled, self-absorbed, self-entitled brats whose only sweat has come from playing on the basketball court and who've never worked a day in their life or had to sacrifice anything for anyone else. Their only concern is getting enough money together to go clubbing on Friday night or buy weed or crack...
There is nothing like a severe breakout of violence at a peace protest.
Really? Wow. They put together a thoughtful, non-offensive display and it is OK that it was vandalized? The thugs even admit to doing it because they know that nothing will happen to them. Whereas, if a BLM poster were even touched, it would be a capital case in the media’s eye.
These students, at minimum, should be expelled. If others are involved, then there should be some sort of consequence.
Or, do we wait til someone is hurt?
jmho
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