Will riots/demonstrations affect UVA reputation/applications?
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Anonymous
They wouldn't dare. And therein lies the rub. They felt comfortable to do it in Charlottsville. They know better than to do it somewhere else. |
Anonymous
Wrong wrong wrong. Ask yourselves why they didn't hold that bullshit rally in Chicago? Or Atlanta? Or any other place? |
Anonymous
Wait what? The young woman ran over WAS white. Not Asian, black, or Hispanic. |
Anonymous
| They pick college towns because they look like a big crowd in small spaces and they see colleges as centers of the progressive movement they hate. |
Anonymous
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The white supremacists held the rally in Charlottesville precisely because the majority of city council and residents of Charlottesville wanted to remove a statue honoring a confederate general and renamed the park Emancipation Park. I have no doubt we have not seen the last of this type of rally/protest and many will be outside of Charlottesville and Virginia. Maybe not Chicago but Atlanta seems likely. |
Anonymous
I read an article (can't remember where, will have to find) saying that some of the leaders of this event specifically said that they're targeting Charlottesville more harshly than anywhere else (including other places removing Confederate statues, such as Louisiana) because they feel that the town has become too left wing and progressive. 80% of Charlottesville voted Clinton. That's much more than even Fairfax (though it helps that it's a college town). They don't like this and said they will continue to target the city. |
Anonymous
| How does a university allow torch carrying Nazis to march through the campus? The entire campus could have been burned down with significant loss of life. The First Amendment protects demonstrations not arson. This negligence and the school's studied denial of its racist history should give any sane person pause about attending this school. |
Anonymous
They didn't get a permit from UVA to be on campus. They marched through the campus illegally. They got a permit for Emancipation Park on Saturday that got pulled because of the violence before the noon start time. |
Anonymous
This. But also, PPs are missing the point. The question OP was asked was about whether there will be a drop in applications to UVA based on people's perceptions of racism on-campus. Not whether UVA is racist. I posted that it'll depend a little on how UVA responds and also what happens next in Virginia and in Charlottesville. National reporting about Virginia politics has become more racialized recently, and that might impact people's decisions to apply from out-of-state. Whether those out-of-staters are wrong is irrelevant. |
Anonymous
In fairness, they just held one in Seattle. I guess UW is out now? |
Anonymous
You are wrong. The statement from the University doesn't say that the march was illegal, it actually says it was legal and there was no prohibition on having open flames on grounds: "The University of Virginia is a public institution and as such must abide by state and federal laws regarding the public’s right to access open spaces. While University policy speaks to the ability to reserve space inside University-owned facilities, permits or registration to access public and open outdoor spaces are not required. University policy also does not generally prohibit open flames in outdoor spaces." Even without specific rules prohibiting open flames, common sense would dictate that several hundred Klansmen with torches is a threat to public safety. Hence, President Sullivan and the Charlottesville police could have acted to stop the march, or at least the use of lit tiki torches, citing the need to protect the public. Simply, the University failed to do its job. |
Anonymous
The man running her over was a neo nazi white supremacist who hates non-whites and whites who are progressive. That the person he killed was white was not his intention when he rammed the car. He rammed it into a crowd. She was sadly collateral damage. So when PP sends their Asian kid there and the neo nazis return and get the right target next time, they can be glad they saved money on in-state tuition. |
Anonymous
They pick white southern towns with a history of racism. |
Anonymous
+ 1 |
Anonymous
And where were the campus police. As a white person, my concern with UVA is the lack of proper security. |