We ought also to recognize the real perpetrators of yesterday tended to be Democrats, just as the fake victims of today. The Democrats were the party dehumanizing bigotry during slavery, the party of KKK bigotry in the old south, and the party of PC hyper-victim-hood bigotry today.
These types of stunts do a lot of damage and create needless fear and paranoia. I think the effects of this would be particularly intense on a college campus, which tends to have a more closed and tight knit atmosphere than the non-campus community.