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Police not convinced that post-election ‘Suck it up’ note was hate crime, as college claimed
The College Fix ^ | 12-2-167 | Christian Montoya

Posted on 12/02/2016 9:45:38 AM PST by bigbob

A Catholic college reported a crude Post-it note to city police as a hate crime because it told students to “suck it up” in response to Donald Trump’s election.

First Amendment experts say that while Wisconsin’s Edgewood College can punish students for even constitutionally protected speech, it cannot seek to use police to punish such speech as a crime.

And the police agreed. A spokesman for the Madison Police Department told The College Fix Thursday that a parole officer and detective already looked into the report and found “no immediate threat.”

Hence, there’s no further case activity and “it’s not an open investigation,” the spokesman said.

Contact these five campus offices with more information

The controversy started after an Edgewood student encouraged others to write their feelings about the election on notes and place them on a public table, Campus Reform reported, citing a letter to the community from Vice President for Student Development Tony Chambers.

One such note mocked students who were upset about Trump’s victory. It read “Suck it up pussies!” and was placed on a window inside the Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion, rather than on the public table.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: collegesnowflakes; edgewood; madison; suckitup
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Just an update on one of the silliest college campus over-reactions in the history of Earth.

More equally crazy-stupid examples at the link. Warning, do not throw a banana before reading!

1 posted on 12/02/2016 9:45:38 AM PST by bigbob
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To: bigbob

“Hate Crime” is illegitimate law, unconstitutional at the federal level and unjust at the state level.


2 posted on 12/02/2016 9:48:23 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: bigbob

This is what we are turning our young people into. Shadows of real human beings.


3 posted on 12/02/2016 9:48:31 AM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: bigbob

Sad to think how many “Catholics” these days seem to endorse left wing strongarm tactics.


4 posted on 12/02/2016 9:50:39 AM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: bigbob

“Suck it up” is not a hate crime, nor is mere mention of the name “Trump.”


5 posted on 12/02/2016 9:50:52 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: bigbob
You just KNOW the cops were thinking "Suck it up, pussies" the whole time they were dealing with these morons.
6 posted on 12/02/2016 9:51:50 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Catmom
"Sad to think how many “Catholics” these days seem to endorse left wing strongarm tactics."

That would include most of my family: indifferent about abortion, pro-gay marriage, and silent about violence on the left.
7 posted on 12/02/2016 9:52:25 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: bigbob

“The controversy started after an Edgewood student encouraged others to write their feelings about the election on notes and place them on a public table...”

Encourage people to write their feelings, then claim “hate crime” when you don’t like their feelings. I believe you would get more logic out of kindergartners than you would out of the average college student nowadays.


8 posted on 12/02/2016 9:54:07 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: bigbob

Geez. If I were a college administrator and someone complained about finding a Post-It note with “Suck it up, pussies” on it, I think I’d tell the person complaining to take the advice on the note.


9 posted on 12/02/2016 9:55:54 AM PST by SSS Two
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To: bigbob

This “race crime” law nonsense needs to be repealed.

All it does is give easily offended snowflakes some legal avenue to retribution.


10 posted on 12/02/2016 9:56:59 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Jim 0216

I agree, it’s another of those things where “I’ll know it when I see it” and is forever measured by a rubber ruler at the whim of whomever wants to twist or contort it to their own ends. I don’t know what it would take to eliminate this but it should be.


11 posted on 12/02/2016 9:57:25 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: bigbob

If it is federal law, states can and should exercise their constitutional sovereignty and nullify and reject such law as unconstitutional and, therefore, unenforceable.

If it is state law, then the people of the state must rise up and move by initiative, prostitution, and/or election to have these unjust “hate-crime” laws struck down.


12 posted on 12/02/2016 10:01:38 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: bigbob

My parents were such haters. “Suck it up, work harder.”
How did I survive?


13 posted on 12/02/2016 10:08:15 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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But, but there were feeeeeeeeeelings that were hurt!!!!
14 posted on 12/02/2016 10:08:54 AM PST by MissTed ( Private Tagline - Do Not Read!)
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...that a parole officer and detective already looked into the report...

a parole officer ?
15 posted on 12/02/2016 10:10:53 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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To: Steve_Seattle

“That would include most of my family: indifferent about abortion, pro-gay marriage, and silent about violence on the left.”

That would be me also. My SIL (my brother is deceased but would be the same) used to be a neo-natal nurse and has claimed to be pro-life all the time I’ve known her but always votes for the dems and lately I’ve gotten in trouble for letting it be known that I voted Trump. I’ve been blocked and de-friended by most of my nieces and nephews. Very sad. I love those people. sigh. I did get past the threatened rift with one of my sons. We’re okay. But how sad.


16 posted on 12/02/2016 10:16:27 AM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: Mercat

It is very sad and maddening that people we love are so brainwashed, on purpose, by our government.


17 posted on 12/02/2016 10:18:02 AM PST by uncitizen (Boycotts Work! #DumpKelloggs)
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To: fungoking

Today Snowflakes get bunnies to pet. 1941-45 my brothers and I got bunnies, to raise for food, for us and neighbors! We also got chickens, ducks and turkeys.
PETA be Damned!


18 posted on 12/02/2016 10:18:42 AM PST by GOYAKLA ( "Suck it up Buttercup"; Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty-one!)
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To: bigbob

Let’s see if we’ve got this straight.
A “Suck it up” note at a small college may be a hate crime. But death threats made (by those like those `threatened’) against US presidential electors are insignificant.
More Obama Jabberwocky nonsense.


19 posted on 12/02/2016 10:19:53 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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I called the # they gave for counseling so as to help me with my feelings! I told the woman a fake name and that since the election I was having a hard time getting the smile off of my face and that my range of emotions were that of Elation to outright giddyness! And I needed to speak to someone..honest injun!


20 posted on 12/02/2016 10:29:03 AM PST by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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