Posted on 12/03/2014 11:22:16 AM PST by rightistight
Two weeks ago, a University of Chicago student, freshman Derek Caquelin, reported that they had received public threats of rape on Facebook, and that the perpetrator also called them racially offensive terms. After an investigation by the University, it has been determined that the student who reported the post was the person who actually wrote it.
Caquelin told the college that he had been hacked and that someone wrote the racist, threatening message on his profile. The University took the matter seriously and investigated the incident when it was first reported, and contacted a third party website-provider to find out who wrote the post. It turned out to be the person who reported the message.
After being confronted by the University, Caquelin wrote on Facebook, “I am behind this, and only I. No others were involved, so I really would like to ask you to leave them alone. There is no excuse for hate, which includes what I did.”
The student’s post was an attempt to bring attention to “racial bias.”
A number of students have actually come out to defend the post, including student activist Vincente Perez. He stated, “Someone felt they had to show something extreme to get people to care. Think about that. This is not a justification. But think about what the weight of apathy can force people to do.”
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It’s all about the need for AtTeNtIoN! It’s all about MEEEEE! No thanks to hussein’s need to insert himself into everything with MEEEEE and IIIIII!
The University of Chicago should send the little twerp home.
There is a website that keeps track of these lies but registering to become a member of it is so damned complicated I just said, “Thanks but no that’s.”
The Perez kid is actually pretty smart; he gets that the real enemy to his movement is apathy, not outright opposition.
What he doesn’t get is that fake or overblown incidents like these only increase that apathy. People cease to be able to distinguish between what us real and what isn’t, what is truth and what isn’t do they just become cynical and cease to care.
Case in point is how the exploitation of the Martin and Brown deaths are probably driving down outraged reaction to the Gardner death among the general public.
And attempts to infuse life into reactions through guilt trips (#crimingwhilewhite) only make that apathy and cynicism worse.
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