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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10 incoming students who participated in the chat received letters informing them that their offers of admission had been revoked.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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @02:42PM (4 children)
Indeed, they learned that moral busybodies will hound them to the ends of the earth just for that rush of drugs your brain releases when you punish the evildoers, or the wrongthinkers as this case might be.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @04:40PM (3 children)
What does the world look like to you? A scary place where everyone judges you? Did you buy extra guns and ammo because Obummer was coming for your 2nd amendment? You really think Harvard administrative personnel got excited at a chance to kick in the teeth of some asshole students?
Get real you fool. If anything this probably gave them anxiety, the PR and parental blowback alone would almost be worth tolerating these shits. Idiot kids being edgy on the school message board? I guess we should make every space, real or digital, safe for assholes to spew their crap. Totally different from other "safe spaces" because this time its about freedom!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @05:34PM (1 child)
obummer was coming for our guns. he just couldn't get traction, even when smuggling guns via fast and furious(or whatever it was called) and getting border patrol agents killed. wtf are you talking about, jackass?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @08:59PM
News for ya, Bubba, us liberals are still coming for your guns, and WE can get tractors! Ha ha! And thanks to your rather prodigious purchasing spree, we have a rather precise lock on your location.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:14PM
Even though you're being sarcastic, what you said is actually true. Not wanting someone to use their authority to punish you based on your speech is quite different from other types of safe spaces, if it can even be called a safe space to begin with. Sometimes I don't have problems with "safe spaces", or at least ones that are more like exclusive clubs. I do have a problem with those who have authority punishing people because they said something deemed offensive or vile.