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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 01:33 AM Sep 2016

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

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California college students vandalize dorms with swastikas (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2016 OP
Assholes shenmue Sep 2016 #1
#TrumpTerrorism underthematrix Sep 2016 #2
Antisemitism is becoming quite popular at college nowadays. :/ romanic Sep 2016 #3
It never really went out of vogue. Behind the Aegis Sep 2016 #6
JI7 Sep 2016 #4
You sound surprised? Behind the Aegis Sep 2016 #5
Just fucking barely leftynyc Sep 2016 #10
2 College students folks. 1st word 'college' 2nd word 'students' YOHABLO Sep 2016 #7
Yeah the internet is amazing treestar Sep 2016 #21
Or you may find that better news on your own rather than relying on others... LanternWaste Sep 2016 #23
"targeted no one in particular" BumRushDaShow Sep 2016 #8
They're CONSIDERING sanctions? leftynyc Sep 2016 #9
Universities have a disciplinary system that has to be followed metalbot Sep 2016 #17
I understand that leftynyc Sep 2016 #19
It's only Jews. We don't usually warrant the same amount of outrage. EllieBC Sep 2016 #28
The hell it's not a hate crime! montana_hazeleyes Sep 2016 #11
KKKlassy. NP Dorian Gray Sep 2016 #12
Did they look like this? oneshooter Sep 2016 #13
One doubts most college students know much about the Finnish Air Force. Codeine Sep 2016 #14
The points are facing the wrong uway. If they painted them way then it is hate, oneshooter Sep 2016 #15
In that pic they're facing the right way, actually. nt Codeine Sep 2016 #16
That is strange, this is off a Finnish Air Force site. oneshooter Sep 2016 #24
They usually faced that way. Codeine Sep 2016 #25
lol treestar Sep 2016 #22
JOKE BOARD?????? Homer Wells Sep 2016 #18
If you think swasticas are only used leftynyc Sep 2016 #20
I swear to God RandySF Sep 2016 #26
I'd be torn forgotmylogin Sep 2016 #27
 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
7. 2 College students folks. 1st word 'college' 2nd word 'students'
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 04:47 AM
Sep 2016

Not worried to much AP .. find me some better news

treestar

(82,383 posts)
21. Yeah the internet is amazing
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 09:40 AM
Sep 2016

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)
23. Or you may find that better news on your own rather than relying on others...
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 09:43 AM
Sep 2016

" 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)
8. "targeted no one in particular"
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 05:33 AM
Sep 2016

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)
9. They're CONSIDERING sanctions?
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 05:43 AM
Sep 2016

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)
17. Universities have a disciplinary system that has to be followed
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 08:16 AM
Sep 2016

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)
19. I understand that
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 08:34 AM
Sep 2016

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.

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
14. One doubts most college students know much about the Finnish Air Force.
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 07:55 AM
Sep 2016

Not sure what point you're attempting to make.

oneshooter

(8,614 posts)
15. The points are facing the wrong uway. If they painted them way then it is hate,
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 08:03 AM
Sep 2016

paint them wrong it either ignorance, or support for the Finnish Air Force.

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
25. They usually faced that way.
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 11:28 AM
Sep 2016

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.

Homer Wells

(1,576 posts)
18. JOKE BOARD??????
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 08:24 AM
Sep 2016

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)
20. If you think swasticas are only used
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 08:35 AM
Sep 2016

by conservatives, you were never at a anti-war protest or anywhere the bds clowns congregate.

RandySF

(58,865 posts)
26. I swear to God
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 11:36 AM
Sep 2016

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)
27. I'd be torn
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 11:48 AM
Sep 2016

between expelling the student and making him attend every Judaic, and minority studies class on offer.

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