Posted on 03/19/2011 10:36:13 PM PDT by thecodont
UCLA announced Friday that it would not discipline or further investigate the student who released a controversial online video in which she complained about Asian students' behavior and mimicked an Asian language.
But later in the day, the student, Alexandra Wallace, announced that she was withdrawing from UCLA because of death threats and because she had been "ostracized from an entire community." In a statement released to the Daily Bruin, UCLA's student newspaper, she apologized for offending Asians and called the video a mistake.
Wallace's three-minute video had triggered a national discussion about racial stereotyping and what authority, if any, colleges have over students' speech and opinions.
Before the young woman's withdrawal statement, free speech experts had praised UCLA's decision not to discipline her and said other universities increasingly face such incidents in the Internet age.
Administrators' decision to drop the probe came with a scolding for Wallace. "While we were appalled and offended by the sentiments expressed in the video, we have uncovered no facts to lead us to believe the student code of conduct was violated," UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
won’t or can’t?
“death threats and because she had been “ostracized from an entire community.”
Well, Alexandra, we are all tolerant and you are not, so you are shunned, ostracized. You should be tolerant and open to all opinions, like us tolerant people!
Ugh, where to start.
There’s so much stupid here, on the part of the school, the girl and the community I think I lost brain cells reading the article.
Makes me even more happy that the Gators beat them.....AGAIN!
They should be applauded for defending free speech. She was an idiot but they consider all conservatives idiots as well. If they stop her from talking, they can also stop us.
The biggest danger from them is that they brand her as a tea party conservative.
For the general FYI, here’s a copy of the video someone reposted on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg3tIERI-D4
The Asian supremacist in the comments is funnny.
Young people in particular really need to think twice about what they post on the internet. I know it sounds like a no-brainer but jeez, nothing good was going to come from posting this rant on-line.
Aside from being humiliated and ostracized from the university, something like this is going to close a lot of doors in her future. It'll never go away. Future employers will google her name, remember this event and say "no thanks."
... fight to the death to protect your right to say it.
She won’t have a problem getting a job, she’s attractive.
What an idiot.
The Asian guy’s parody of it that showed up next is pretty good.
I mean how are Asians at UCLA ever supposed to recover from this massive onslaught of reckless and injurious hate from this obviously dangerous and deviously powerful intellect?
Oh, the humanity!
Let’s see. UCLA administrators discriminate viciously against asian students in their admissions process, impairing their careers and earnings capacities for the rest of their lives. The administrators are hailed as deacons of diversity and make $250,000 a year.
Some stupid student makes a three minute video that will have no real effect on anyone except drama queens and she is expelled? Actually, I’m surpised they didn’t send her to a reeducation camp for committing the wrong kind of discrimination against asians.
I hope the death threats are being investigated and those making them are punished to the fullest extent of law.
But we all know that some pigs are more equal than others.
seeing her i can say,not guilty.
Substitute the word Asian with African and let’s see how this plays out...
What if she had mocked Muslims?
Reeducation camp? They didn’t have to ...sounds like she has already been there.
“I would do anything to take back my insensitive words. I could write apology letters all day and night, but I know they wouldn’t erase the video from your memory, nor would they act to reverse my inappropriate action.”
Only thing missing is the blindfold and the firing squad....
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