Shuddering with fear.
Posted on 11/04/2018 2:33:35 PM PST by lowbridge
A University of Manitoba student says hateful messages posted on campus and sent to at least one fax machine add an "element of fear" to being on school grounds.
"I think it's sickening," said Charlene Hallett. "But, on the other side too, I want to roll my eyes and say, "You know what? No, you don't get to try to intimidate us this way.'"
Sheets of paper with the phrase "It's okay to be white" were taped to walls around the U of M campus this week. Faxes with the same phrase were sent to offices around the campus, including the women's and gender studies program.
Hallett is Cree-Métis and is in her fourth year of studies in the family social sciences program. She says while incidents like this this won't change her willingness to speak her mind during class discussions about issues like race, class and sexuality, it makes her wonder if she's going to be targeted.
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"Whether I know it or not, somebody could be sitting in that class having these thoughts and having these racist ideas about what Indigenous people are or … just how superior white people are, and I don't know if that's happening or not," said Hallett.
"I don't know what their intentions are in class. I don't know if I'm in harm's way."
'No tolerance for hate and discrimination'
The University of Manitoba is denouncing the posters, which the school president says are part of "a co-ordinated international effort by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups."
"The university unequivocally condemns this and any other racist actions," David Barnard wrote in a statement sent to media on Friday.
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CAUTION!!!
Triggering tag line!!!
https://news.umanitoba.ca/emerging-leaders-celebrated/
One can post on that page.
If you, you know, felt like leaving, you know, a message.
Shuddering with fear.
If you ask somebody how they’re doing and they say, “okay,” that’s sort of one step up from “not very well,” so maybe this is actually a dig at whites — it’s “okay” to be white, sort of, not that great, just not wanting to say it.
Think of the explosive reaction if it instead had said, “It’s OK to be a straight white male”.
Are you understanding the real objective yet?
its NOT OK to be white-white is the sum of all colors you see-and there’s lots of opportunity for the left in division-and none in unity
memetic warrior you are ;>)
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