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University of Massachusetts president condemns threatening e-mail sent to Black student groups
Boston Globe ^ | September 27, 2021 | Laura Krantz and Nick Stoico

Posted on 09/29/2021 11:07:32 AM PDT by Jim Noble

University of Massachusetts President Martin Meehan on Monday condemned a threatening e-mail sent recently to a number of Black student groups at the Amherst flagship campus as administrators hired a cybersecurity firm to investigate the source of the anonymous message.

“The blatantly racist e-mails recently sent to Black student organizations at UMass Amherst and other deplorable acts of anti-Black hatred are appalling and disgusting,” Meehan said in a statement. “The messages in no way reflect the true character of the UMass community and we have zero tolerance for such behavior.”...In a statement posted on Facebook and Instagram, the UMass Black Student Union said it was “absolutely appalled” by the anonymous e-mail but “certainly not surprised.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anotherhoax; hatecrimehoax; hoaxes; isitrue; racism
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It's tedious I know running down all these hoaxes, but one of my kids brought it home from school, old enough to be concerned, not old enough to realize how unlikely it was to have occurred on a leftist college campus.

Comment away, but keep track of the story. Not sure they will announce it once they identify the "racists"

1 posted on 09/29/2021 11:07:32 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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What an idiot. How quickly will this “scandal” evaporate from the news once it’s found that a black student or group sent the e-mails?


2 posted on 09/29/2021 11:10:53 AM PDT by fwdude (If you don’t think you are in a battle w/ the culture for your children then you are already losing.)
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3 posted on 09/29/2021 11:12:19 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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...but keep track of the story.

I do save these story details and look for them a year or two later. NOT ONE of them has materialized into a definitive revelation of what comes down to a "hate crime," or the victim was found to be the perp, and the whole thing was swept under the rug.

4 posted on 09/29/2021 11:12:56 AM PDT by fwdude (If you don’t think you are in a battle w/ the culture for your children then you are already losing.)
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Dear UMass President Martin Meehan:

Allow me to assist with your investigation. To kick-start your search for clues, refer to: Racist graffiti that led to walkouts was made by nonwhite student, Missouri school district says.

Sincerely,
POF

5 posted on 09/29/2021 11:13:08 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.”)
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Hoax by a black student - very likely.
Troll that doesn’t even go to the school - A possibility.
A real, racially motivated action by a white student at the school - Unlikely, but everyone will treat it as such even if/when it’s revealed to be something else.


6 posted on 09/29/2021 11:13:10 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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Related, from 2019...

Howie Carr: Marty Meehan has played hack game perfectly

7 posted on 09/29/2021 11:13:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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This will be blared everywhere - but once it’s inevitably proven to be a hoax, the e mails sent by other blacks, the media will deep 6 the story.

Count on it.


8 posted on 09/29/2021 11:13:38 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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Not only is UMass Amherst virulently liberal, but so is the rest of the town where the campus is sited. Virtually certain that this is an “own goal”.


9 posted on 09/29/2021 11:14:31 AM PDT by Little Pig
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Not this confetti again!


10 posted on 09/29/2021 11:17:01 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: fwdude

a few minutes ago I made a $10 bet that this proves to be a hoax within 30 days


11 posted on 09/29/2021 11:19:35 AM PDT by wny ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This guy was a left wing nut in Congress for a quarter of a century.


12 posted on 09/29/2021 11:20:53 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: fwdude
And was it racist to begin with?

Sometimes, what's decried as a "racist message" turns out to be simply a statement that taxes should be lowered, or that socialism is bad, etc.

I call BS if they neither identify the source email address nor tell us what the allegedly racist message is. There's simply no there there.

13 posted on 09/29/2021 11:21:08 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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I’m going way out on a limb here by predicting this is most likely a hoax. I mean racism by white people is so widespread people have to fake it to get attention on it.


14 posted on 09/29/2021 11:21:10 AM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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Not this confetti again!

Hey, I'm trying to help a little kid grow up, learn to reason, and to use situational awareness in evaluations of facts.

That's why I posted, to get other fact trackers and some useful opinions.

15 posted on 09/29/2021 11:22:02 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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The allegedly racist message is something to the effect that a lot of black students at UMass Amherst don’t belong there.


16 posted on 09/29/2021 11:23:01 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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Way better than even odds this is a false flag op.


17 posted on 09/29/2021 11:23:43 AM PDT by billyboy15
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“The allegedly racist message is something to the effect that a lot of black students at UMass Amherst don’t belong there.”

Why and how is this racis...?


18 posted on 09/29/2021 11:25:41 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: wny

The racist ones are always highly suspect. The “gay” hoaxes are outright 100% staged.


19 posted on 09/29/2021 11:26:36 AM PDT by fwdude (If you don’t think you are in a battle w/ the culture for your children then you are already losing.)
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This is so tiresome. The news media wants so desperately for one of these hoaxes to be true that they fall for it every single time.


20 posted on 09/29/2021 11:28:38 AM PDT by tballard56
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