Date: November 22nd, 2015 6:18 PM
Author: Adventurous Know-it-all Pervert
http://www.mtv.com/news/2545796/white-student-union-read-a-book-university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/
This ‘White Student Union’ Needs To Take Several Seats And Read A Book
A sad attempt at silencing the voices of students speaking out against racism.
by Rae Paoletta 11/20/2015
PSA: “reverse racism” isn’t a thing.
Most people seem to understand this, but the recently sprouted “White Student Union” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is evidence that there’s still a whole lot of work to do.
In the wake of ongoing protests on college campuses across the country, in which students have publicly gathered to challenge racism, a group of (presumably white) students decided to have a sad. Lots of other people want to have a sad too — the Facebook group of the “Illini White Student Union” currently has more than 1,800 likes, and reportedly asked others to “send in pictures you take of any black protesters on the quad so we know who anti-whites are.” Of course, there’s no shortage of garbage comments either:
The good news is that another group on campus is having none of the WSU’s “raciist bull shit.” Standing With Her, which describes itself as “stand[ing] with Black women to keep racist colleges and universities accountable,” wrote an open letter to their university condemning the White Student Union.
MTV News spoke via email to Pasha Trotter, lead Organizer of SWH and a doctoral candidate at the school’s department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership.
“In addition to sharing a couple of sources ’devoted to fighting antiwhite racism,'” she said, “they went so far as to post a screenshot of a black woman UIUC student’s Facebook page, including her full name and profile picture, along with her Facebook post that speaks out against the now removed Illini White Student Union’s page.”
Trotter added, “We are deeply concerned by this threat to her life and other actions they plan to “organize against” the Black Lives Matter activists on campus whom they have labeled as ’antiwhite.’ Actions like Illini White Student Union are acts of surveillance and intimidation.”
The News Gazette reports that Rene Romano, the university’s vice chancellor for student affairs, called the page “offensive to [the] university community.”
“Posts and pages such as these stand in complete opposition to the values of mutual respect and community that define the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While they may be protected exercises of free speech, they are offensive, divisive and stunningly narrow-minded expressions,” Romano said.
UIUC’s student-run paper, The Daily Illini, reports that campus UIUC spokeswoman Robin Kaler said the school won’t take further action against the people who created the White Student Union Facebook, if they are confirmed to be students. She apparently “cit[ed] the creator’s first amendment rights.” She will, however, “continue to work with Facebook to have the Illini White Student Union page removed from the site.
Although the Facebook was reportedly taken down at one point, it appeared to be live at press time.
Rae Paoletta = pig
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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3051538&forum_id=2#29231881)