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."
They’re so incredibly hateful... we won’t even let you know what they say.
“....The posts mentioned almost every ethnic group, including blacks, Muslims, Jews and American Indians, blaming them for an effort on campus to debate changing the university’s mascot, a Viking. The threats came days after some student leaders suggested that the mascot is racist. The posts did not mention a specific action against the students....”
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2015/11/western_washington_university.html
Apparently whomever wrote this article at Oregon live, left out that a man on yik yak who threatened to shoot every black person, was a “black guy” making a joke on “yik yak”. (week ago, Michigan)
“At Missouri, posts were made on social media threatening to shoot black people after protests about racial issues on that campus. The posts followed the resignations of the University of Missouri system president and the chancellor. A white college student at another school was later arrested for making a terrorist threat.
Shepard said debate about the Western Washington’s mascot has come up on occasion and he welcomed the discussion.
Some students do not believe a white European man is a good representation of their school, but Shepard, who is retiring at the end of this academic year, said he doesn’t plan to change the mascot.
Patrick Eckroth, a WWU senior from Port Orchard, Washington, said there is a problem with racism at the school.
“The idea of having a critical conversation about our mascot and the reaction to that is a great illustration of the problem we have not just in our university, but in society,” said Eckroth, who is a member of the student government but said he was speaking personally, not as a student leader.”
AP via oregon live
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2015/11/western_washington_university.html
Sagina, Michigan yik yakker
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2015/11/student_charged_in_yik_yak_thr.html
Well, some of those degrees still have weight. Consider the folks doing research for their degrees in chemistry, physics, and engineering. I'm guessing they still went to their labs to work, even though classes were cancalled.
But the snowflakes in the poetry department, I bet they took the day off.
“Y’mean, like, they’ll be disabled, depression and stuff....and qualified for SSDI or elective office?”
More like when they find out that the best they can do with a BS degree in “Grievance Studies” is get a part time job at Starbucks, and the pay REALLY sucks and doesn’t begin to cover the payments due on their student loan, much less anything else, and that they have to live in Mommy and Daddy’s basement, and no appealing member of the opposite sex will have squat to do with such a loser.
Ohhh, those poor widdle kiddies and their widdle hurt feelers.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
Aren’t most colleges out for the whole week? If not, then it was someone wanted out for longer than the schedule allowed.
This is the result of making college a "right". Instead of only the most academically inclined going to college, we have had to invent major fields of study such as gender studies, ethnic studies, etc. in order to ensure that those who can't handle actual fields of study such as math, science, business, and engineering could still get into college.
These idiots will starve if they have to compete anywhere outside of the comfortable womb of academia.
No, they'll get a passing grade......what student ever complained about a cancellation of his/her classes just as long as they passed?
or those who are not like their counterparts in Congress:
Wait till the mooslum head choppers arrive on campus, President wimpy. You’ll be begging the politically incorrect Marines to save your worthless butt, you leftist piece of garbage.
Because Whites Don’t Matter to liberals even when they are white because they are eaten up with guilt.
Haha actually accounting followed up with a UW MBA ... It was a bit different in 1977 but still the last bastion of northwest hippydom
It used to be a bomb scare got the kids an early start on Thanksgiving; now it’s “hate speech” nobody saw anyway - at least no the legitimate students.
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