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(UPDATE!) Letter from Uof Fla President Re: Richard Spencer

Rejected submission by aristarchus at 2017-08-17 02:02:35 from the From the Sticky-wicket-for-white-supremacists-dept. dept.
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That did not last long. Evidently, the University of Fla. has reconsidered [cnn.com].

On Wednesday, the University of Florida announced that it had banned white nationalist Richard Spencer, who reportedly wanted to rent space for a September event.

In a statement, the university cited security concerns over the violence in Charlottesville. But Spencer’s group has promised to sue.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/venues-across-the-country-are-banning-white-nationalist-events-after-charlottesville-violence/ [rawstory.com]

And even Colorado is giving in to this refusal to give a podium to the racist losers of the last World War.

Media Matters reported [mediamatters.org] on Wednesday that Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado would no longer host the white nationalist VDare conference

There is no such thing as bad publicity, until it gets you banned from the public view, shunned, shamed, and reviled, and having to share a webpage with Milo Upmycoaclalotos.


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