Posted on 11/22/2019 1:58:44 PM PST by Red Badger
Syracuse University has been wracked by racial protests this month following anti-black and anti-Asian messages in a bathroom and bulletin board. Unsurprisingly, student activists are making racialized demands including the right to exclude white roommates.
An individual or group apparently went too far in trying to keep the outrage going, however.
A reported “white supremacist manifesto” send to students’ phones “was probably a hoax,” Chancellor Kent Syverud told the University Senate Wednesday, ABC 7 reports.
Authorities have not found a single recipient of the manifesto, which “appeared to be a copy of one linked to a man accused of attacking two mosques in New Zealand,” the station says.
Students gathered in the campus Bird Library allegedly received the manifesto via the Apple technology AirDrop, which transfers files via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, suggesting the perpetrator was near them. Syverud said law enforcement had not confirmed a single student had received the manifesto that way.
Student Tayla Myree, a participant in the black-led #NotAgainSU movement that sprouted up in response to the bathroom and bulletin-board messages, criticized Syverud for calling the incident a hoax, The Daily Orange reports.
She pointed to a copy of the manifesto posted on a discussion forum at Greekrank.com, a fraternity and sorority website unaffiliated with Syracuse or any other college:
“I have personally reported what we saw on that forum,” Myree told senators [at the meeting]. “It’s not false information. I have screenshots of that post. … It’s not a hoax.”
As is increasingly common in response to purely speech incidents on campus, Syracuse notified the FBI, city and state police in response to the unconfirmed AirDropped manifesto.
The Daily reported Tuesday that the Department of Public Safety notified the community of the alleged incident early that morning, but apparently had no firsthand information to back it up:
The incident at Bird Library occurred around 1 a.m., multiple students at the library said. According to the email, no individual has reported to DPS that they received the document directly. …
Students hovered around the check-in monitor at Bird Library after 1 a.m. asking questions to a DPS officer. The officer told several students to not walk home alone and said the incident is being investigated by DPS.
Syracuse has largely given in to student protests, even refusing to remove or punish students who have conducted prohibited overnight sit-ins at the Barnes Center at the Arch.
Yet neither the university nor the Daily have specified the full content of the slurs that prompted the protests, other than noting one of them was “the N-word.”
Even as it promised “details” of a third “bias-related incident” in the dorm – and provided a content warning about “usage of racial slurs” – the Daily did nothing more than call it “bias-related graffiti” on a floor that “primarily houses Asian students.”
The administration has yet to confirm that it has verified any of the “graffiti” bias incidents were real attempts to slur and intimidate nonwhite students, as opposed to hoaxes designed to spur Syracuse to give in to activist demands.
Chancellor Syverud, whose job is on the line, told the community Tuesday he planned to meet five demands “with urgency,” the Daily reported. Three of them were advocated among 18 total by #NotAgainSU: revising the student code to clarify consequences for hate crimes and bias related incidents, changes to the SEM 100 diversity seminar, and a new diversity curriculum.
Another nine demands came from the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, China Development Think Tank and Global China Connection. Students can track the administration’s response to each demand on a PDF provided by Syracuse.
Unsurprisingly, Syverud’s pledges are not placating sit-in protesters:
“I don’t know about y’all, but that sounds like a lot of rhetoric,” one protester said while reading the chancellor’s email.
A protester said that students should write down any concerns with Syverud’s response. #NotAgainSU will continue to sit-in at the Barnes Center and spend Tuesday night there. [That’s more than a week so far.]
Syverud’s job is also endangered by the national publicity the unconfirmed racial incidents are drawing. Not only have two senators and Democratic presidential candidates denounced them, but the basketball and football teams are supporting the protests.
Athletes’ support for black-led protests toppled University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe four years ago.
The hell you say! Who coulda seen that one coming?
Like, I know, right?....I kinda thought it was the first time I heard about it.
‘Not only have two senators and Democratic presidential candidates denounced them, but the basketball and football teams are supporting the protests.’
well, any college football team that can be beaten by 43 points to a team of Maryland’s stature has little else to do with itself...
Naturally
JuicyFroot gets around
When will a college president and/or the board of trustees ever draw a line in the sand and say “No More of This!”
The students at this campus have a choice - you can return to classes and further your education or continue to protest. If you choose the latter, I will find grounds to see to it that this is your last semester at this institution. We have many students waiting for the opportunity to come here and I won’t deny them the right to do so based upon your so-called right to issue demands upon this administration. The choice is yours.”
Until some college president decides “Enough Is Enough”, this crap is gonna continue unabated.
Syracuse has a strong “me too” need to be noticed.
Anyone seen Jussie Smollette recently?
Put it on the literal fake hate crimes list: http://fakehatecrimes.org/
I knew it as soon as I saw it on TV. It was so quickly organized and planned out just like all the other hoaxes.
Every time I see this type of BS, I immediately think ‘hoax’...........but that’s just me........................
What was your first clue?
It was just a thought passing thru and stopped to visit for a while.............
Kind of ironic, since the original "incident," consisted of some rhetoric that appeared on someone's iPhone screen.
I should say "may have," since "Authorities have not found a single recipient of the manifesto," according to the article.
Of course if Syverud said "sticks and stones may break my bones..." he would be instantly fired, and have to give up his gigantic beautiful University-supplied digs.
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