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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10 incoming students who participated in the chat received letters informing them that their offers of admission had been revoked.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: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:59AM (3 children)
> Your efforts do no go unnoticed,
Eh, if nothing better, good enough for a start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:32PM (2 children)
It was a tough spot, free speech, social media, Harvard: what ya gonna do?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 09 2017, @10:20AM (1 child)
You are asking what I would have done (in your shoes) to dismantle my troll?
Or asking me what I'll do for the future?
Or how I'm gone to reply to your lukewarm reaction?
Or when I'm going to grow up and stop tongue-in-cheek trolling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday June 09 2017, @04:20PM
Nothing of the sort. Quite the contrary. On the other hand. To the point at hand, and vice versa, I was only saying that the article was weak material for proper trolling. Let it go, young padawan. Soon there will be opportunity enough to put your training to use.