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big_dog

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Thu Nov 20, 2014, 05:12 PM Nov 2014

White Students Dress As Cops Beating ‘Mexicans’: ‘This Is The Beginning Of Rape Season’

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating racial threats against Latino students that began on Halloween night and recently escalated to warnings about “the beginning of rape season.” University of Chicago junior Vincente Perez told WMAQ that the threatening behavior began on Halloween night when he saw white students participating in a mock beating of students who were dressed as Mexican stereotypes for the holiday. Photos of the incident were later uploaded to Facebook.

“The pictures not only involved the individuals in the costumes but also kind of made light of police brutality,” Perez recalled.
In response to that incident, Perez joined with other students and faculty to launch a petition calling for more training on racial insensitivity. But he said that the threats only escalated after that. Most recently, someone hacked one of his friend’s Facebook pages with a warning: “Vincente you are next. None of your profiles are safe. This is the beginning of our rape season.”

“I was very literally scared to leave my house,” Perez noted. In a statement, the university insisted that the threat was “unacceptable and violates our core values.” “Anonymous and personal attacks that are hateful, threatening, and target people’s identity do not constitute discourse and deserve our strongest condemnation,” the statement said. “We will pursue criminal prosecution, and if the individual is a member of our community we will pursue disciplinary action, up to and including expulsion or termination of employment. Getting answers to these questions may be difficult, but regardless of the outcome we must engage in active discussion about the impact of these attacks on our campus.”

For his part, Perez said that he appreciated the university’s statement, but it didn’t go far enough. “We need to see action,” Perez observed. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/white-students-dress-as-cops-beating-mexicans-this-is-the-beginning-of-rape-season/

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White Students Dress As Cops Beating ‘Mexicans’: ‘This Is The Beginning Of Rape Season’ (Original Post) big_dog Nov 2014 OP
How about beating these jerks for real? muntrv Nov 2014 #1
looks like its happened before in the last few years, very recently big_dog Nov 2014 #2
 

big_dog

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2. looks like its happened before in the last few years, very recently
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 05:23 PM
Nov 2014

EXCLUSIVE: Members of the University of Chicago's Alpha Delta Phi wear "Mexican labor outfits" on May 7th, 2012, a night prior to allegedly mowing the house lawn. CHICAGO - Charges that a University of Chicago fraternity had pledges wear sombreros and mow a lawn as Mexican ranchera music played while another frat planned a party for “Conquistadors and Aztec Hoes” have led to concern but very little action from the school’s dean of students.

Both incidents, which occurred in May, drew the ire of students, faculty and staff, and members of the greater community who said they were hateful and in poor taste.

Several students, including one faculty member, reported to campus authorities that on May 8th, pledges at the Alpha Delta Phi house were seen mowing the lawn outside the frat at 5747 S. University while wearing “oversized sombreros,” as a stereo system played Mexican ranchera music.

Around May 21, the Delta Upsilon fraternity, at 5714 S. Woodlawn, posted on Facebook about a planned party with a theme of “Conquistadors and Aztec Hoes.” Party-goers were encouraged to bring “an unlimited need to conquer, spread disease and enslave natives". http://www.prestigedumonde.com/politics/two-months-after-hateful-speech-and-discriminatory-behavior-took-place-at-the-university-of-chicago-deans-president-fail-to-reprimand-alpha-delta-phi-and-delta-upsilon

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