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[Slayven]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...union-challenges-black-lives-matter/76165878/

An anonymous Facebook page called Illini White Student Union, created after black students from the University of Illinois held a rally Wednesday, reportedly characterized the Black Lives Matter movement as an act of “terrorism” and called for the monitoring of African-American students who attended, leaving many feeling unsafe at the Urbana-Champaign campus.

“I expect some degree of backlash whenever black students … get together and demand their human rights,” said Karen Olowu, a member of Black Students for Revolution, which organized the rally. “I was surprised by the degree and the swiftness, and how toxic it was.”

The rally featured speakers, poets and hip-hop artists expressing solidarity with protesters at the University of Missouri.

The Facebook page read, “A new page for white students of University of Illinois students to be able to form a community and discuss our own issues as well as be able to organize against the terrorism we have been facing from Black Lives Matter activists on campus,” according to The Daily Illini.

Schools response
https://illinois.edu/blog/view/6231/280978

Man the more things change the more they stay the same

 

[Dictator93]

"White student union"


uhhhhhh

 

[Infinite]

I give up on America

 

[LouisaFerre]

I'm just laughing.

 

[Polari]

That Facebook post sounds fake as shit

 

[chicagocubsfan]

Stupid people.

 

[Dany]

Has to be satirical...

 

[Slayven]

That Facebook post sounds fake as shit

"Just for lolz" or not, it was intent on stirring up trouble.

 

[Imm0rt4l]

Remember my white brothers, all lives matter.


This has to be a troll

 

[FStubbs]

#BlackLivesMatter has an implied "too".
#AllLivesMatter has an implied "except black ones"

 

[EdibleKnife]

I honestly can't stand the word terror being used in reference to BLM. The inception of BLM is a response to the destruction of black bodies, the amount of stories about violence used against activists and black peoples has been non stop, and this year there have literally been stories of people using the BLM movement to cover for their own criminal behavior (i.e. suicide cop and truck vandal). Yet people still have the gall to call BLM terroristic

 

[mmazurkiewicz]

#BlackLivesMatter has an implied "too".
#AllLivesMatter has an implied "except black ones"

says who?

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

That is awful.

 

[Slayven]

I honestly can't stand the word terror being used in reference to BLM. The inception of BLM is a response to the destruction of black bodies, the amount of stories about violence used against activists and black peoples has been non stop, and this year there have literally been stories of people using the BLM movement to cover for their own criminal behavior (i.e. suicide cop and truck vandal). Yet people still have the gall to call BLM terroristic

Shows how ingrained "black people ain't shit" is into America's DNA

 

[Damerman]

says who?

Says anyone who is paying attention...

 

[Crimson_Gold]

says who?

Just look at the context in which they are used. One is trying to point out an issue, blm. The other is used to subvert what blm is trying to do.

 

[braves01]

#BlackLivesMatter has an implied "too".
#AllLivesMatter has an implied "except black ones"

I've said it before, BLM should just add the "Too" part on the end. It more clearly promotes the goal of equality and inclusiveness, while going a long way to shutting down the semantic distractions.

 

[BigDes]

says who?

The Illini White Student Union

 

[Infinite]

Shows how ingrained "black people ain't shit" is into America's DNA

Exactly. What a world

 

[Inuhanyou]

Yes white folk, as a majority, you are so being terrorized by black folk for wanting to bring out their own voice and grievances.

I don't see how a majority can think they are a minority unless they feel threatened by minorities banding together.

 

[illmatic22]

They should have a picnic with the MRA's.

 

[Slayven]

I've said it before, BLM should just add the "Too" part on the end. It more clearly promotes the goal of equality and inclusiveness, while going a long way to shutting down the semantic distractions.

Bend over and take it up the ass from racists? No

At this point people who don't get it, choose not to.

 

[BigDes]

They should have a picnic with the MRA's.

Let's face it, they're the same people.

 

[KevinCow]

Why don't they just expel the students involved in this? I wouldn't want anyone like that representing my university in any fashion.

 

[JDSN]

Whats the word kids these days are using to reference racist acts meant to incite people? It is toal? Scroll? You know, the one they use to describe those college kids that ended up arrested last week? The one they use when kids go to shoot a gamecon? The one the use when people dont wanna call something for what it really is?

Edit: Found it, "troll". These kids are just " trolling". Did I use it right?

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Yes white folk, as a majority, you are so being terrorized by black folk for wanting to bring out their own voice and grievances.

I don't see how a majority can think they are a minority unless they feel threatened by minorities banding together.

Yep, take a look at the surge of Christian persecution rhetoric after Gay marriage was legalized.

 

[hypernima]

yes, let's monitor those pesky blacks.

hah, this has got to be bad satire.

 

[CadetMahoney]

That Facebook post sounds fake as shit

probably a troll looking to start some shit.

 

[hodayathink]

As someone who went to U of I, this doesn't surprise me as much as it should. Especially when you know what happened with our Black Student Union building.

 

[Frog-fu]

Smells of a 4chan troll crusade.

 

[Sesha]

#BlackLivesMatter has an implied "too".
#AllLivesMatter has an implied "except black ones"

I read the latter more as "but some lives matter more than others".

 

[bggrthnjsus]

man i went to school there and i find this really really embarrassing

also i would much rather that this some 4chan troll bullshit than an actual group of terrible racists at my university

 

[zeemumu]

says who?

That's how people treat it. People say that all lives matter but they don't actually live by that so it means effectively nothing.

 

[KingBroly]

As someone who went to U of I, this doesn't surprise me as much as it should. Especially when you know what happened with our Black Student Union building.

So there is a White Student Union there?

 

[royalan]

I've said it before, BLM should just add the "Too" part on the end. It more clearly promotes the goal of equality and inclusiveness, while going a long way to shutting down the semantic distractions.

Inclusiveness is not a goal of BLM.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Apparently Karen and I have 3 friends in common. Small world.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

I've said it before, BLM should just add the "Too" part on the end. It more clearly promotes the goal of equality and inclusiveness, while going a long way to shutting down the semantic distractions.

Do you honestly believe that would change anything at all?

 

[EdibleKnife]

Inclusiveness is not a goal of BLM.

Yep. Inclusiveness should be the goal of the oppressor not the oppressed. BLM is about getting rights and respect for black peoples that should be implicit for all humans. All this sugar coating and respectability stuff ignores the urgency and severity of what BLM fights for.

 

[RumblingRosco]

I'm at UIUC. Everyone here thinks it's fucking stupid. No one I've spoken to or heard from supports this. It's just someone trolling that for all we know isn't even a student at UIUC.

AKA, I hope they find the person posting this (it is getting deleted but they recreate it, apparently) and expels them for inciting terror/fear on campus.

 

[Slayven]

Yep. Inclusiveness should be the goal of the oppressor not the oppressed. BLM is about getting rights and respect that should be implicit for all humans. All this sugar coating and respectability stuff ignores the urgency and severity of what BLM fights for.

It's really became a thing where folks saying BLM should woo and coddle the racists

 

[Andodalf]

"White student union"


uhhhhhh

Hey, If there can Be a Black Student Union, with no whites allowed, why not a white one?

 

[Angelus Errare]

Hey, If there can Be a Black Student Union, with no whites allowed, why not a white one?

There are black student unions that specifically forbid whites from joining? Or nah?

 

[Crimson_Gold]

Hey, If there can Be a Black Student Union, with no whites allowed, why not a white one?

Wait what? Where are you getting this from

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Hey, If there can Be a Black Student Union, with no whites allowed, why not a white one?

Let's not go down the "if there can be black pride, then what's wrong with white pride?" road.

 

[faridmon]

So people use ''terrorists'' easily these days, eh...

 

[rrs]

U of I is surrounded by corn fields and republican voters, would not surprise me if there were some racist chucklenuts who are serious about this

 

[bchamba]

Stay safe white brothers

Is this a public page where everybody can see the members?

 

[RumblingRosco]

U of I is surrounded by corn fields and republican voters, would not surprise me if there were some racist chucklenuts who are serious about this

Champaign is like the last bulwark for Democrats in Illinois (excluding Chicago) as far as I can tell.

Also, hey now, don't forget about our soy fields. And pumpkin fields.

 

[Crimson_Gold]

So people use ''terrorists'' easily these days, eh...

Brown or darker skin + inciting fear or terror in accusing individual = terrorist

The fear can be caused by simply existing. There is no threshold

 

[Angelus Errare]

So people use ''terrorists'' easily these days, eh...

Unless the person is white. At that point they're just poor kids with mental health issues. And totally an individual problem.