California college students vandalize dorms with swastikas
Source: Associated Press
California college students vandalize dorms with swastikas
Updated 9:07 pm, Thursday, September 22, 2016
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Two students at a Northern California university scrawled swastikas and other hate speech in residence halls, the campus president said Thursday.
The swastikas were found Tuesday at two separate dormitories that mostly house first-year students at San Jose State University.
Next to one of the swastikas was scrawled "Admit One Jew," President Mary Papazian said in a statement emailed to all students Thursday. She said police have identified the student responsible and "determined that this act, while bias-based, targeted no one in particular and is not by definition a hate crime."
The other swastika was drawn on a white board in a common area of another dormitory. The white board was described to police by the student responsible as a "joke board," said Papazian, adding that this incident remains under investigation and police were confident the two cases are not related.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/San-Jose-State-dorm-rooms-found-vandalized-with-9239176.php
shenmue
(38,506 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)Anti-Semitism: hate for the ages
isn't it an attack on jewish people ?
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)I am surprised they are even calling it a "bias based" issue.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)That this cretin is still a student is a stain on the university.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Not worried to much AP .. find me some better news
treestar
(82,383 posts)We now can learn what two college students have done! And then draw generalizations of disaster from that. Two very influential people those two college students!
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)" find me some better news..."
Or you may find that better news on your own rather than relying on others... unless your point was merely to minimize and trivialize a the valid concerns of others in a fit of uber-cool trendiness.
BumRushDaShow
(129,050 posts)So despite the graffitti "Admit One Jew,", if they had also burned down the dorm with the same scrawling in front of it, it's still not a hate crime because it didn't "target" a specific person"?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)That MAY lead to expulsions? WTF is wrong with these people? How far does that hateful wretch who put this on a "joke" board have to go? The vile bds movement has made Jew hating cool again.
metalbot
(1,058 posts)If they were to make statements like "this student will be expelled" in advance of that process running, they expose themselves to spurious legal action by the student.
It's highly likely the student will get expelled.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)but a much more forceful statement like "this behavior will NOT be tolerated on this campus and actions will be taken to make sure of that" rather than the pansy assed statement they made would have been welcome.
EllieBC
(3,014 posts)I'm not at all surprised.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)oneshooter
(8,614 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Not sure what point you're attempting to make.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)paint them wrong it either ignorance, or support for the Finnish Air Force.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 23, 2016, 11:29 AM - Edit history (1)
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)I think the prevalence of reverse swastika is overstated in an attempt to distinguish the Finns from Nazi overtones for those who overreact when they see hakaristi on the various heraldry and military insignia Finland used.
Don't we all support the Finnish Air Force?
Homer Wells
(1,576 posts)This is why all good humorist are liberals. The only sort of humor conservatives seem to be able to appreciate is that which appeals to bigoted, racist, hate filled people.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)by conservatives, you were never at a anti-war protest or anywhere the bds clowns congregate.
RandySF
(58,865 posts)I would be jailed for beating my kid senseless if he went and did something like that, after I permanently cut off any support for his education.
forgotmylogin
(7,529 posts)between expelling the student and making him attend every Judaic, and minority studies class on offer.