Text Messages Show How Syracuse University Students Are Too Scared To Go To Classes After A Series Of Racist Incidents

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/syracuse-university-racist-incidents-scared-students-texts

 

When Syracuse University students began hearing reports that a white supremacist manifesto had been airdropped to some people’s cellphones at the school library on Monday night, Aarti Patel, a fourth-year PhD student, quickly began thinking about escape routes and evacuation plans.

One of her professors in the Department of Religion texted her at 7:25 a.m. on Tuesday morning: “Aarti, are you sure you wanna go to campus? We need to be safe.”

Multiple people reached out to each other with the same message: “Do not go to campus today.”

“It was palpable fear,” Patel, 30, told BuzzFeed News. “You could feel it in the air.”

A series of racist incidents reported at the university since Nov. 7 have heightened the fears of students and faculty members on campus. This week, teachers canceled several classes, citing concerns for their students’ safety. Parents are making their kids return home for the holidays earlier than usual. And many students are refusing to leave their apartments, missing classes and work shifts.

The incidents include reports of racial slurs against black and Asian people, racist graffiti, a swastika found in a snowbank, a black woman being called the n-word by a group of students and fraternity members, and a professor of color receiving a violent and racist email threat.

 

One of them said they were going to bring mace to campus.

 

How does Mace help with texts you do not like?

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13 minutes ago, Boiler said:

How does Mace help with texts you do not like?

maybe they can bash their phone with  it.

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55 minutes ago, Boiler said:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/syracuse-university-racist-incidents-scared-students-texts

 

When Syracuse University students began hearing reports that a white supremacist manifesto had been airdropped to some people’s cellphones at the school library on Monday night, Aarti Patel, a fourth-year PhD student, quickly began thinking about escape routes and evacuation plans.

One of her professors in the Department of Religion texted her at 7:25 a.m. on Tuesday morning: “Aarti, are you sure you wanna go to campus? We need to be safe.”

Multiple people reached out to each other with the same message: “Do not go to campus today.”

“It was palpable fear,” Patel, 30, told BuzzFeed News. “You could feel it in the air.”

A series of racist incidents reported at the university since Nov. 7 have heightened the fears of students and faculty members on campus. This week, teachers canceled several classes, citing concerns for their students’ safety. Parents are making their kids return home for the holidays earlier than usual. And many students are refusing to leave their apartments, missing classes and work shifts.

The incidents include reports of racial slurs against black and Asian people, racist graffiti, a swastika found in a snowbank, a black woman being called the n-word by a group of students and fraternity members, and a professor of color receiving a violent and racist email threat.

 

One of them said they were going to bring mace to campus.

 

How does Mace help with texts you do not like?

You must have been watching Tim Pool today.

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A part of me laughs, a part of me worries. But mostly laughs. This is an institution of education where people are reacting in the most uneducated fashion possible.

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51 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

You must have been watching Tim Pool today.

Well I saw the headline, and I thought it was a joke.

 

Well actually it is a joke, a few texts can close down a Uni.

 

Must check how Evergreen is doing.

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In a lot of these cases the minorities were the ones doing it