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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

And where were the campus police. As a white person, my concern with UVA is the lack of proper security.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

They pick white southern towns with a history of racism.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in NoVA and our daughter is Asian. Any application drop-off will help us out tremendously. (in-state $$$, baby!) Thanks in advance.

Have it! News flash, your Asian kid isn't white so when the nazis run over her with a car, try remember you saved money on in-state tuition.

Wait what? The young woman ran over WAS white. Not Asian, black, or Hispanic.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:The community of UVA and Charlottesville as a whole felt comfortable enough to host such a gathering. As in, they felt there was strong enough community support to see this thing through. I'm glad that community got exposed for the frauds that they are. Disgusting.

UVA never had anything to do with this. Yes, the organizer is an alum, but no one in their right mind at the school supports such radical, disgusting thoughts. Do all Penn grads support Trump? Absolutely not. The University had no idea this was going to happen on their grounds. The Nazis got a permit for a park a full 5 miles away from the Grounds. They came to UVA without warning to get exactly the reaction that many of you are giving them in this thread. They wanted to soul the campus with their disgusting ideals and make the progressive, diverse school a connection to their movement. It was for visuals and gain and by causing many rational posters on the board to turn their heads against the school simply because of this event, they are getting exactly what they wanted.

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And this has nothing to do with "the community of UVA and Charlottesville . . . comfortable enough to host such a gathering." The majority of the people were not from either and there is something called the First Amendment.

Wrong wrong wrong. Ask yourselves why they didn't hold that bullshit rally in Chicago? Or Atlanta? Or any other place?

In fairness, they just held one in Seattle. I guess UW is out now?

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Anonymous wrote:The community of UVA and Charlottesville as a whole felt comfortable enough to host such a gathering. As in, they felt there was strong enough community support to see this thing through. I'm glad that community got exposed for the frauds that they are. Disgusting.

UVA never had anything to do with this. Yes, the organizer is an alum, but no one in their right mind at the school supports such radical, disgusting thoughts. Do all Penn grads support Trump? Absolutely not. The University had no idea this was going to happen on their grounds. The Nazis got a permit for a park a full 5 miles away from the Grounds. They came to UVA without warning to get exactly the reaction that many of you are giving them in this thread. They wanted to soul the campus with their disgusting ideals and make the progressive, diverse school a connection to their movement. It was for visuals and gain and by causing many rational posters on the board to turn their heads against the school simply because of this event, they are getting exactly what they wanted.

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And this has nothing to do with "the community of UVA and Charlottesville . . . comfortable enough to host such a gathering." The majority of the people were not from either and there is something called the First Amendment.

Wrong wrong wrong. Ask yourselves why they didn't hold that bullshit rally in Chicago? Or Atlanta? Or any other place?

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 wrote: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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:The community of UVA and Charlottesville as a whole felt comfortable enough to host such a gathering. As in, they felt there was strong enough community support to see this thing through. I'm glad that community got exposed for the frauds that they are. Disgusting.

UVA never had anything to do with this. Yes, the organizer is an alum, but no one in their right mind at the school supports such radical, disgusting thoughts. Do all Penn grads support Trump? Absolutely not. The University had no idea this was going to happen on their grounds. The Nazis got a permit for a park a full 5 miles away from the Grounds. They came to UVA without warning to get exactly the reaction that many of you are giving them in this thread. They wanted to soul the campus with their disgusting ideals and make the progressive, diverse school a connection to their movement. It was for visuals and gain and by causing many rational posters on the board to turn their heads against the school simply because of this event, they are getting exactly what they wanted.

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And this has nothing to do with "the community of UVA and Charlottesville . . . comfortable enough to host such a gathering." The majority of the people were not from either and there is something called the First Amendment.

Wrong wrong wrong. Ask yourselves why they didn't hold that bullshit rally in Chicago? Or Atlanta? Or any other place?

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.

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Anonymous wrote:The community of UVA and Charlottesville as a whole felt comfortable enough to host such a gathering. As in, they felt there was strong enough community support to see this thing through. I'm glad that community got exposed for the frauds that they are. Disgusting.

UVA never had anything to do with this. Yes, the organizer is an alum, but no one in their right mind at the school supports such radical, disgusting thoughts. Do all Penn grads support Trump? Absolutely not. The University had no idea this was going to happen on their grounds. The Nazis got a permit for a park a full 5 miles away from the Grounds. They came to UVA without warning to get exactly the reaction that many of you are giving them in this thread. They wanted to soul the campus with their disgusting ideals and make the progressive, diverse school a connection to their movement. It was for visuals and gain and by causing many rational posters on the board to turn their heads against the school simply because of this event, they are getting exactly what they wanted.

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And this has nothing to do with "the community of UVA and Charlottesville . . . comfortable enough to host such a gathering." The majority of the people were not from either and there is something called the First Amendment.

Wrong wrong wrong. Ask yourselves why they didn't hold that bullshit rally in Chicago? Or Atlanta? Or any other place?

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in NoVA and our daughter is Asian. Any application drop-off will help us out tremendously. (in-state $$$, baby!) Thanks in advance.

Have it! News flash, your Asian kid isn't white so when the nazis run over her with a car, try remember you saved money on in-state tuition.

Wait what? The young woman ran over WAS white. Not Asian, black, or Hispanic.

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Anonymous wrote:The community of UVA and Charlottesville as a whole felt comfortable enough to host such a gathering. As in, they felt there was strong enough community support to see this thing through. I'm glad that community got exposed for the frauds that they are. Disgusting.

UVA never had anything to do with this. Yes, the organizer is an alum, but no one in their right mind at the school supports such radical, disgusting thoughts. Do all Penn grads support Trump? Absolutely not. The University had no idea this was going to happen on their grounds. The Nazis got a permit for a park a full 5 miles away from the Grounds. They came to UVA without warning to get exactly the reaction that many of you are giving them in this thread. They wanted to soul the campus with their disgusting ideals and make the progressive, diverse school a connection to their movement. It was for visuals and gain and by causing many rational posters on the board to turn their heads against the school simply because of this event, they are getting exactly what they wanted.

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And this has nothing to do with "the community of UVA and Charlottesville . . . comfortable enough to host such a gathering." The majority of the people were not from either and there is something called the First Amendment.

Wrong wrong wrong. Ask yourselves why they didn't hold that bullshit rally in Chicago? Or Atlanta? Or any other place?

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Anonymous wrote:You idiots realize this had nothing to do with UVA right...

And I'm assuming you will boycott DC schools because the alt-right had a convention here earlier this year right same stupid logic

man yall are really stupid

Organized by UVA grad....

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omg what a bunch of stupid morons here. So whatever school Steve Bannon went to. Don't send your kids there right.

VA Tech. Getting deeper into red territory. No thanks.

What about Chicago? Hmm.

Yes, let's see them try to hold a pro-Nazi rally in Chicago. Let's see how that goes.

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.