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UW-Madison won’t denounce student’s ‘All White People Are Racist’ hoodies
The College Fix ^ | OCTOBER 26, 2016 | COLLEGE FIX STAFF

Posted on 10/29/2016 8:26:28 PM PDT by aquila48

A spokesman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shrugged off concerns over one of its students selling hoodies bearing the phrase “All White People Are Racist” in capital letters.

“In this case, the individuals involved are exercising their rights to free speech and engaging in a private activity unrelated to their status as students,” campus spokesman John Lucas said in an email to The College Fix.

Asked a second time to weigh in on the matter, Lucas gave the same answer.

The hoodies are the brainchild of an entrepreneurial UW-Madison undergraduate who recently began selling sweatshirts online—in Wisconsin red—which proclaim: “All White People Are Racist.”

Other sweatshirts offered by the same UW student vendor read, “If I Encounter Another Cop With A God Complex I’m Going To Have To Show The World That They Are Human,” modeled by a woman in a hijab and begging the question of how she proposes to prove police officers’ humanity.

The student designer has sold dozens of sweatshirts, including his newest design, which has the “All White People Are Racist” logo on the front and bloody handprints on each sleeve. He was recently featured in a UW student newspaper article modeling his designs right in the heart of campus, not twenty yards from the entrance to the main administrative offices atop Bascom Hill.

Seeking comment on the matter, The College Fix contacted Chancellor Rebecca Blank, Dean of Students Lori Berquam, and Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Patrick Sims, who have been vocal supporters of Black Lives Matter and who have worked closely with Black Lives Matter in campus programming.

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In keeping with the university’s active demonization of its white students, singling them out for privilege-shaming “education sessions,” not one of these three UW administrators accepted The Fix’s invitation — sent twice — to denounce the message of racial hatred and possible calls for anti-police violence printed on the sweatshirts.

He majors in elementary education at the University of Wisconsin School of Education. As such, and according to the elementary education program’s website, he will “Study teaching methods and gain experience in schools through supervised field placements during [his] four-semester professional sequence.”

The Fix reached out to the dean of the School of Education, Diana Hess, to inquire as to whether the undergraduate selling the sweatshirts demonizing other races and apparently calling for violence against police officers would be placed in a classroom setting teaching young children. Dean Hess did not reply. (Ironically, Hess was hired by the UW School of Education because she wrote a book about why and how teachers should “ensure that all sides of a controversy are presented fairly” in a classroom.)

Perhaps Dean Hess’ and the three UW administrators’ reticence to comment on the matter is explained by the fact that the sweatshirts hardly express sentiments out of keeping with those of the university faculty, administration and staff as a whole. “White privilege” lecturing has become a regular feature of all aspects of university life.

The Geography Department, for example, showcases the scholarship of USC Professor Laura Pulido, who argues that “white privilege” is responsible for “environmental injustice,” including environmental racism. The History Department recently sent out a blast e-mail exhorting all affiliated students and faculty to attend an upcoming lecture titled “How History Keeps Us Racist – and what to do about it.” The History Department also gained national notoriety in 2013 for its mandatory diversity training, during which participants were given handouts on the “re-education process” needed for white people (and only white people) to overcome their “thorough racist conditioning.”

Moreover, the University of Wisconsin system funneled taxpayer money into the pockets of the national White Privilege Conference organizers when that conference was held in Madison in 2014. Teachers who attended the event vowed to bring the lessons of the White Privilege Conference into their classrooms—precisely what the UW School of Education seems to be encouraging its undergraduates to do.

The UW system has also hosted extended “white privilege” campaigns advertised by posters featuring white models with racial slogans written on their faces.

Given this ongoing leadership in the “white privilege” movement now fully entrenched at universities nationwide, it is hardly surprising that the UW administration—which has been telling its students for years that all white people are racist—has declined to condemn a student who simply decided to print that slogan on articles of clothing.

1 posted on 10/29/2016 8:26:28 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Democrats will stop at nothing to create race riots. Unbelievable


2 posted on 10/29/2016 8:28:01 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: aquila48

As were the drunken frat boys at OU

And racial asskisser Boren had a cow

Double standard? You bet


3 posted on 10/29/2016 8:32:40 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Unsecured email ALONE renders hilLIAR INcompetent to be CIC . . .)
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To: aquila48
Self-loathing little snowflakes .. Aren't they just precious !

spit ^10

4 posted on 10/29/2016 8:33:51 PM PDT by tomkat (we are legion .. we are pissed .. and we are coming !)
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To: aquila48

And if the hoodies read “All black people are racist”?


5 posted on 10/29/2016 8:34:07 PM PDT by lightman (I'm nobody special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
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To: aquila48
so selling "all blacks are thugs" hoodies is OK too then... right?

this is pure insanity

6 posted on 10/29/2016 8:35:20 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: aquila48

You want to see “Freedom of speech” concerns vanish in a puff of smoke? Try an ALL LIVES MATTER t-shirt and a TRUMP hat.


7 posted on 10/29/2016 8:35:47 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (Trump. Because "politicians are a dime a dozen, but leaders are priceless." -Clarence Henderson)
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To: lightman
Or:   "we shoulda picked our own damned cotton"
8 posted on 10/29/2016 8:35:48 PM PDT by tomkat (we are legion .. we are pissed .. and we are coming !)
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To: aquila48
This is the same school that had to photoshop a black kid into their Catalog.


9 posted on 10/29/2016 8:36:18 PM PDT by dfwgator
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10 posted on 10/29/2016 8:39:41 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: aquila48

I WANT ONE!


11 posted on 10/29/2016 8:39:56 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: aquila48

If your only talent is shocking people then you’re a loser.

These folks are a big fat yawn.


12 posted on 10/29/2016 8:43:03 PM PDT by GOPJ ( "An honest public servant can't become rich in politics" - - President Harry S. Truman)
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To: Chode
so selling "all blacks are thugs" hoodies is OK too then... right? this is pure insanity

Even better would be "thug lives don't matter" hoodies, and then when white students get confronted for wearing them, they can turn it around on the University by accusing the administration of calling all black people thugs.

13 posted on 10/29/2016 8:44:00 PM PDT by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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To: lightman

A portion of them are. Dont tell the marxist media!


14 posted on 10/29/2016 8:44:34 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Red necks & all necks for Trump!)
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To: tomkat

Yeah I thought obama’s sons were supposed to be so tough.

I was confronted by seven once at the Staten Island Ferry.

They were taunting me and all around me.

I told make your move or get the #### away from me.

The ringleader said he was just kiding around and that was that.

I was YOUNGER and still a boxer.

Probably wouldn’t do that now.


15 posted on 10/29/2016 8:46:23 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: aquila48

It is a public university. What is the public doing about this? Cut their funding until they cut this crap out.


16 posted on 10/29/2016 8:53:25 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: dp0622
Yes, that's usually the way with bullies .. more mouth than balls.

Still, carrying ain't a bad idea, 'specially as the years roll by.

17 posted on 10/29/2016 8:59:42 PM PDT by tomkat (we are legion .. we are pissed .. and we are coming !)
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To: Maceman

How about:

ALL ______ PEOPLE ARE ______.

This should get EVERY ONE really riled up.


18 posted on 10/29/2016 9:00:30 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( LOTS of /s)
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To: lightman

Or “all black people are thugs”?


19 posted on 10/29/2016 9:04:14 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Scott Walker is governor. What the hell is he doing?


20 posted on 10/29/2016 9:11:27 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that meYep. n do lives after them)
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