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TexasTowelie

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Thu Dec 1, 2016, 11:36 AM Dec 2016

Purdue members demand condemnation of white supremacy fliers

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A group of angered faculty, staff and students are calling on Purdue University leaders to condemn posters promoting white supremacy that were plastered across campus.

The posters found Wednesday morning read, "We have a right to exist," with a drawing of a white man and woman on it. Another said, "Defending your people is a social duty, not an anti-social crime," accompanied by a drawing of a white woman with a baby. The lower left corner of the posters were marked with a fascist symbol.

The signs bear the name of American Vanguard. Its website, reactionamerica.com, says it "fights for a White America." The site provides several printable posters, including the ones that were found at Purdue. The group, via a direct message on Twitter, said it takes responsibility for the signs at the university.

The group said it has allies at Purdue and expects that pool to grow, although the "patriots" involved in the poster campaign have declined to reveal their identities.

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/college/2016/11/30/white-supremacy-posters-placed-around-purdue/94667550/

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Purdue members demand condemnation of white supremacy fliers (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2016 OP
Sickening. Table Dec 2016 #1
Mitch Daniels, Purdue University President. saltpoint Dec 2016 #2
so that's where that fuckstick ended up.... dhill926 Dec 2016 #3
Yep. I'm told he has not been a saltpoint Dec 2016 #4
12 years ago for me. Cheers! Missn-Hitch Dec 2016 #5

saltpoint

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4. Yep. I'm told he has not been a
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 06:53 PM
Dec 2016

particularly inspiring or visionary presence in the Purdue constellation.

That place probably needed a Howard Dean personality to lead it, or maybe someone else, but certainly not Mitch Daniels.

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