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The Facebook messaging group was at one point titled "Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens."
It began when about 100 members of Harvard College's incoming freshman class contacted each other through the university's official Class of 2021 Facebook group. They created a messaging group where students could share memes about popular culture — a growing trend on the Internet among students at elite colleges.
But then, the exchanges took a dark turn, according to an article published in the Harvard Crimson on Sunday. Some of the group's members decided to form an offshoot group in which students could share obscene, "R-rated" memes, a student told the Crimson. The founders of the messaging group demanded that students post provocative memes in the main group chat to gain admittance to the smaller group.
The students in the spinoff group exchanged memes and images "mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust and the deaths of children," sometimes directing jokes at specific ethnic or racial groups, the Crimson reported. One message "called the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child 'piñata time'" while other messages quipped that "abusing children was sexually arousing," according to images of the chat described by the Crimson.
Then, university officials caught on. And in mid-April, after administrators discovered the offensive, racially charged meme exchanges, at least 10 incoming students who participated in the chat received letters informing them that their offers of admission had been revoked.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday June 07 2017, @02:04PM (3 children)
For people who want to offend snowflakes there are schools for that. Even Christian schools for white, male, heterosexual, christian, rich, conservative students. Schools where racism and sexism are embraced. Sexual assault may not be openly embraced but at least tolerated -- especially when perpetrated by the right people. Or if the victims are the ones "who deserve it".
I'm sure some of these schools are happy to censor evil liberal ideas. Or you'll go to hell.
Some schools, like a business school that a president graduated from, will let you graduate even if you can't read, write or speak in complete sentences. Critical thinking isn't even on the radar, so no worries.
And no double standards. It's okay for conservative schools to select those they like and don't like, but outrageous for liberal schools to do likewise.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @02:42PM
For example, Bob Jones university interracial dating was an expellable offense until 2000. [christianitytoday.com] These were the guys who popularized the phrase "religious liberty" in 1983 - for the right to discriminate against black people. [uscivilliberties.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:31PM (1 child)
Allowing someone to speak freely isn't the same as embracing their speech.
What if you're consistent and believe that neither should punish people for speech deemed offensive or vile?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 08 2017, @04:12PM
People are free to speak offensive or vile things.
Others are free not to listen, or expose others to it. Including private institutions of higher learning.
It's one thing to discuss and discourse about vile or offensive things. It's another to say hateful things. For example, discussing the subject of sexual assault is different than bragging about having done it, or how one would like to do it.
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