If you have been watching the news at all these past few months, you know the coddled college children have been throwing temper tantrums over their desire to purge their respective university systems from anything that could even tangentially be considered “racist” (or, in the case of Mizzou, if someone with no relation to the matter simply doesn’t adequately do enough to address this alleged “racism.”)
If you don’t think the thought police are going to come after you for whatever you do that offends the sensibilities of someone looking for “racism” everywhere, you’re wrong.
Exactly a year ago, before the #BlackLivesMatter and #ConcernedStudent1950–or whatever it’s called lately–movement took a foothold on our campuses, I was doxxed.
In the name of social justice, hundreds of thousands of people shared my personal information, and my parents’ personal information, all over the internet in an attempt to threaten to me, intimidate me, and encourage others to harm me (as well as my family). The mantra of the doxxers was, “She deserves it because she’s a racist.”
Before the collective colon collapse at Mizzou and Yale and etc. etc. etc. etc., the Washington Post’s Susan Svrluga ran a particular article addressing anonymous “racist” comments on the social media app YikYak.
Svrluga’s article was titled, “Students take racist comments and spread them all over campus.” Svrluga took a sympathetic view of activism at American University, because students were “so fed up with racist comments they were reading on social media.”
Allegedly, according to the students interviewed by Svrluga, racial tensions are getting worse and the American administration is not doing enough to combat racism. Apparently, the safe space bubble of academia that routinely shuts down dissenting views as “racist" is not safe enough because it doesn’t police anonymous online interactions.
The solution to the ill of racism proposed by the students at American University is to require everyone to go through a mandatory diversity training class, e.g. a thought police seminar.
The Washington Post article–and the university protesters–never portray the other side of having your innocuous comments misconstrued as the epitome of “racism” that reportedly requires a thorough brainwashing to cleanse.
The supposedly “racist” poem I posted that drew the ire of hundreds of thousands of activists was mentioned in Svrluga’s article as an example of “racism on campus.”
The poem was political satire of the Michael Brown shooting and the aftermath in Ferguson. Nowhere in the poem is there a reference to Brown’s race.
Regardless, the social justice lynch mob determined the poem was the definition of racism and acted the only way they know how: by being outraged and demanding someone do something.
My personal information was posted. I was bombarded with death threats and rape threats. Individuals messaged my mother saying they were going to rape me (and my family members).
My personal, private, unlisted number was spread on the Internet. The incessant text messages and phone calls made it impossible for me to turn on my phone without another accusation of “racism.”
The most insidious action that the social justice warriors engaged in, however, was contacting my university in order try to expel me for expressing my opinion that was deemed “racist.“
My university’s Facebook page received dozens of posts providing the school with my full name and calling for me to be expelled for being a theoretical “racist.”
Eventually, I received a message from the school’s Interim Title IX Compliance Coordinator of the Office of Compliance, Diversity, and Ethics, instructing me to contact the office about an “urgent matter.“
The social justice warriors were so hell-bent on ruining my life that they trumped up a false Title IX violations to try to subject me and my loved ones to the Orwellian kangaroo court process.
If the campus social justice activists across the country get their way, it won’t stop at mandatory diversity classes or ousting college presidents.
Despite a formal reeducation process and public flogging filled with apologies for being white/male/etc., there can be no parole, of course, for those who are caught committing the heinous act of a “racist” thought crime.
Anyone who dares to say anything that hurts anyone’s feelings will have their lives and their livelihoods threatened.
The social justice warriors will not stop until anyone who commits any sort of perceived “racist” slight or a microaggression is purged from society entirely and forced into a cage for daring to commit the heinous and violent act of holding the wrong political or cultural opinions. That is what “racism” is considered in modern times, anyway.