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(Think Progress)   Sick: Minority students at the University of Texas are getting attacked with "bleach bombs" from racist fellow students. Asinine: The administration is seemingly doing nothing to stop it   ( thinkprogress.org) divider line
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Frank N Stein
2013-08-25 08:06:36 AM  
I like how this article had to explicitly state the purpose of bleach for laundry applications.
 
BrassArt
2013-08-25 08:12:07 AM  
Remember Oberlin...
 
KrispyKritter
2013-08-25 08:15:48 AM  
nothing said of proportion of minority to non-minority students already at the school. there is a different weirdness if the school is 50/50, one has to really wonder WTF. if the school is almost completely non-minority then the offenders are the types that would burn down a For Sale house on their street if they saw a minority couple show up with the real estate agent. in this case it shouldn't take too much police background work to figure out most probable dooshbags.
 
BraveNewCheneyWorld
2013-08-25 08:16:14 AM  
Yes subby, because people in school administration should be taking over the role of the police just because an assault happens on their campus.  And if they don't, they obviously approve of the assault.

/calibrate sarcasm here
 
here to help
2013-08-25 08:16:31 AM  
People wonder why I give the "subtle" racists such a hard time on here. Well here's your answer. Your innuendo jacks up the climate to embolden others who may not be quite as subtle as you to do asinine sh*t like this.

I'm sure in their minds it's "just a joke" and that us libtards need to get a "sense of humor".

I'm sure someone will come along and defend these precocious rapscallions against the over reactions and oppression of the librul "PC police". At the very least they will derail the thread ignoring the actual assaults and deny racism exists and how racist it is that black people can say the "n wurd" but white people can't or some other such nonsense.
 
Nabb1
2013-08-25 08:16:32 AM  

Frank N Stein: I like how this article had to explicitly state the purpose of bleach for laundry applications.


Laundry? WTF? All those years I've been using it as a cocktail mixer.
 
Frank N Stein
2013-08-25 08:18:15 AM  
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mesmer242
2013-08-25 08:19:09 AM  
Well, subby, West campus is not actually UT property and nobody knows for sure that the person doing it is a student. It's sort of the job of the police to investigate crimes. We had some hate crimes at my university (not UT, and not a school in Texas) when I was a student, and the local police and criminal justice system did a much better job of dealing with it than administrators.
 
Mr.Tangent [TotalFark]
2013-08-25 08:19:31 AM  

Frank N Stein: I like how this article had to explicitly state the purpose of bleach for laundry applications.


Yeah it really stole the thunder from the obvious "makes whites whiter" joke.
 
SweetDickens
2013-08-25 08:21:12 AM  
i laugh at your stupidity....seriously...did you all even farkin' learn  anything in any school????

Like learn how to think critically?????

Oh, you are ameriturds...continue on then.
 
blacksho89
2013-08-25 08:22:02 AM  
How about a legitimate source, subby? ThinkProgress? Really? You couldn't have used Faux News, at least?
 
Congo
2013-08-25 08:22:12 AM  
You don't mix bleach and coloreds, read the label.
 
prjindigo
2013-08-25 08:24:24 AM  
Use of chemical weapons against a civilian populace is a war-crime.
 
August11 [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-08-25 08:25:00 AM  

mesmer242: Well, subby, West campus is not actually UT property and nobody knows for sure that the person doing it is a student. It's sort of the job of the police to investigate crimes. We had some hate crimes at my university (not UT, and not a school in Texas) when I was a student, and the local police and criminal justice system did a much better job of dealing with it than administrators.


Ok. But what message is silence?
 
kwame [recently expired TotalFark]
2013-08-25 08:26:38 AM  
This is a criminal matter. Even if there were something administration could do, it's standard practice to stay out of the way of a police investigation.
 
len470
2013-08-25 08:27:40 AM  
Yes, remember Oberlin. This has hoax written all over it. No witnesses other than the aggrieved, Not reported until later. In the original article is a picture of the most likely perp, Taylor Carr.
 
OhioUGrad
2013-08-25 08:29:41 AM  

mesmer242: Well, subby, West campus is not actually UT property and nobody knows for sure that the person doing it is a student. It's sort of the job of the police to investigate crimes. We had some hate crimes at my university (not UT, and not a school in Texas) when I was a student, and the local police and criminal justice system did a much better job of dealing with it than administrators.


A lot of administrators are inept at their own jobs, cannot imagine them trying to investigate a crime
 
BraveNewCheneyWorld
2013-08-25 08:30:41 AM  

August11: mesmer242: Well, subby, West campus is not actually UT property and nobody knows for sure that the person doing it is a student. It's sort of the job of the police to investigate crimes. We had some hate crimes at my university (not UT, and not a school in Texas) when I was a student, and the local police and criminal justice system did a much better job of dealing with it than administrators.

Ok. But what message is silence?


Oh FFS, this shiat doesn't need to be addressed in any manner by the administration.  Let the cops handle it, if they feel that it's in the public interest to make everyone aware of bleach water-balloons, they can do that.  That is their job, not the school administration's.
 
PainfulItching
2013-08-25 08:31:03 AM  
Similar reports surfaced last year. But according to the Austin American-Statesman: linked here



Austin police said only one attack was reported, and that case was suspended due to lack of evidence. A police official said that damaged evidence was requested but that the victim did not submit anything.



So no evidence produced so far. And Texas has the largest student population in the country. Not every college aged kid in Austin is a student either. Plus the source for the story. Bah. That Burnt Orange Report? Send your favorite conservative to that site and watch their head explode.

And I'm a lefty liberal, but if you've not been attacked by bleach, it's easy enough to fake. As far as I can tell, no one has even tweeted a pic of the clothing they were wearing at the time they were hit. You can't fail to produce evidence then claim racism when nothing is done.
 
Sweaty Dynamite
2013-08-25 08:31:53 AM  
Criminal matter?  Assault?  This pussy got hit with a water balloon by some assholes riding around campus. Seems that the only reason minorities were the "targets" is probably because the are the only ones that equate being hit with a water balloon to a farking hate crime and report it to police.  I would wager that there are similar or greater numbers of wet non-minorities walking around that campus that didn't feel the need to make a federal case out of it...literally.
 
wildcardjack
2013-08-25 08:35:04 AM  

prjindigo: Use of chemical weapons against a civilian populace is a war-crime.


Yeah, even though it's Austin it's still a UT, hard to rally up a protest. I saw protesters in Dallas the other day who took their opportunity to use the sidewalk on an overpass, but they didn't think about the fact that traffic below was doing 60 mph+ and couldn't read their three inch lettered signs.
 
kwame [recently expired TotalFark]
2013-08-25 08:35:32 AM  

August11: mesmer242: Well, subby, West campus is not actually UT property and nobody knows for sure that the person doing it is a student. It's sort of the job of the police to investigate crimes. We had some hate crimes at my university (not UT, and not a school in Texas) when I was a student, and the local police and criminal justice system did a much better job of dealing with it than administrators.

Ok. But what message is silence?


Where are you getting silence? The October attacks were commented upon by administration. This attack happened 4 days ago, and there's no other information as of now. Do you want public comments by admin every time something happens involving a Texas student?
 
dryknife
2013-08-25 08:35:55 AM  
"..targeted Asian or African Americans."

Texans have made peace with the Mexicans I guess.
 
Neighborhood Watch
2013-08-25 08:38:04 AM  
So this has supposedly happened 5 total times, 4 of which were almost a YEAR ago, and it's an 'epidemic'?

Yeah, right.


/just make sure you don't turn down the wrong street during a Juneteenth rally in Austin.  Trust me...
 
spcMike
2013-08-25 08:38:18 AM  

kwame: This is a criminal matter. Even if there were something administration could do, it's standard practice to stay out of the way of a police investigation.


In my day we just had the college republicans hold illegal immigrant hunts.
 
skozlaw [TotalFark]
2013-08-25 08:39:28 AM  

BraveNewCheneyWorld: August11: mesmer242: Well, subby, West campus is not actually UT property and nobody knows for sure that the person doing it is a student. It's sort of the job of the police to investigate crimes. We had some hate crimes at my university (not UT, and not a school in Texas) when I was a student, and the local police and criminal justice system did a much better job of dealing with it than administrators.

Ok. But what message is silence?

Oh FFS, this shiat doesn't need to be addressed in any manner by the administration.  Let the cops handle it, if they feel that it's in the public interest to make everyone aware of bleach water-balloons, they can do that.  That is their job, not the school administration's.


I take it you never went to college.
 
Truther
2013-08-25 08:39:52 AM  
They should do all they can to catch the perpetrator of this crime.  There is no place in today's society for Hate Crimes - we need to bring light to these crimes and call them what they are.

Just like they are doing for that Australian baseball player or the WW2 vet who were victims of Hate Crimes.

Oh wait - Hate Crimes can't be perpetrated by minorities on whites.  My apologies.

/...
 
spcMike
2013-08-25 08:40:02 AM  

dryknife: "..targeted Asian or African Americans."

Texans have made peace with the Mexicans I guess.


They mow our grass
 
mesmer242
2013-08-25 08:40:35 AM  

kwame: August11: mesmer242: Well, subby, West campus is not actually UT property and nobody knows for sure that the person doing it is a student. It's sort of the job of the police to investigate crimes. We had some hate crimes at my university (not UT, and not a school in Texas) when I was a student, and the local police and criminal justice system did a much better job of dealing with it than administrators.

Ok. But what message is silence?

Where are you getting silence? The October attacks were commented upon by administration. This attack happened 4 days ago, and there's no other information as of now. Do you want public comments by admin every time something happens involving a Texas student?


Cool, I don't even have to type a retort. Thanks.

Witness99: BraveNewCheneyWorld: Yes subby, because people in school administration should be taking over the role of the police just because an assault happens on their campus.  And if they don't, they obviously approve of the assault.

/calibrate sarcasm here

Universities typically have their own police force. They arrest people, write tickets and everything.


None of the attacks have occurred on campus.
 
GoldSpider
2013-08-25 08:40:41 AM  

PainfulItching: Similar reports surfaced last year. But according to the Austin American-Statesman: linked here

"Austin police said only one attack was reported, and that case was suspended due to lack of evidence. A police official said that damaged evidence was requested but that the victim did not submit anything."

So no evidence produced so far. And Texas has the largest student population in the country. Not every college aged kid in Austin is a student either. Plus the source for the story. Bah. That Burnt Orange Report? Send your favorite conservative to that site and watch their head explode.


What are you, some kind of racist-enabler??
 
here to help
2013-08-25 08:41:46 AM  

Truther: They should do all they can to catch the perpetrator of this crime.  There is no place in today's society for Hate Crimes - we need to bring light to these crimes and call them what they are.

Just like they are doing for that Australian baseball player or the WW2 vet who were victims of Hate Crimes.

Oh wait - Hate Crimes can't be perpetrated by minorities on whites.  My apologies.

/...


aaand there it is.
 
Uranus Is Huge!
2013-08-25 08:42:00 AM  
Schools should never address or comment any crimes that occur on their campuses. Ever. Doing so often pollutes the police investigation, taints the future jury pool, and causes undue alarm in the community.

In fact, the press should keep quiet about crimes too. The police will let us know what we need to know.

I'm glad to see the Fark Klavern is up early this morning.
 
GoldSpider
2013-08-25 08:44:02 AM  

Uranus Is Huge!: Schools should never address or comment any crimes that occur on their campuses. Ever. Doing so often pollutes the police investigation, taints the future jury pool, and causes undue alarm in the community.


That's a pretty stupid thing to post, considering the incident didn't occur on campus.
 
Nabb1
2013-08-25 08:45:03 AM  

Uranus Is Huge!: Schools should never address or comment any crimes that occur on their campuses. Ever. Doing so often pollutes the police investigation, taints the future jury pool, and causes undue alarm in the community.


Apparently, these attacks are taking place off campus. It's unclear if the attackers are even students. As noted, the administration has commented on prior attacks. What would you have them do at this point? Form a posse and ride?
 
BraveNewCheneyWorld
2013-08-25 08:47:17 AM  

Witness99: BraveNewCheneyWorld: Yes subby, because people in school administration should be taking over the role of the police just because an assault happens on their campus.  And if they don't, they obviously approve of the assault.

/calibrate sarcasm here

Universities typically have their own police force. They arrest people, write tickets and everything.


Yeah, and they're not ADMINISTRATION.

skozlaw: BraveNewCheneyWorld: August11: mesmer242: Well, subby, West campus is not actually UT property and nobody knows for sure that the person doing it is a student. It's sort of the job of the police to investigate crimes. We had some hate crimes at my university (not UT, and not a school in Texas) when I was a student, and the local police and criminal justice system did a much better job of dealing with it than administrators.

Ok. But what message is silence?

Oh FFS, this shiat doesn't need to be addressed in any manner by the administration.  Let the cops handle it, if they feel that it's in the public interest to make everyone aware of bleach water-balloons, they can do that.  That is their job, not the school administration's.

I take it you never went to college.


Because.....
 
GoldSpider
2013-08-25 08:48:31 AM  

Nabb1: What would you have them do at this point? Form a posse and ride?


If only there was a term for an extralegal group of people; a "mob" if you will, that pursues and does violence to perceived wrongdoers.
 
hasty ambush
2013-08-25 08:51:29 AM  

August11: mesmer242: Well, subby, West campus is not actually UT property and nobody knows for sure that the person doing it is a student. It's sort of the job of the police to investigate crimes. We had some hate crimes at my university (not UT, and not a school in Texas) when I was a student, and the local police and criminal justice system did a much better job of dealing with it than administrators.

Ok. But what message is silence?


I think the normal, meaning expected but meaningless, response would be for the school administration to come out a strongly worded letter condemning the bleach bombers blah, blah, blah, followed by comments on support for a diverse student boy an how it make the school stronger, blah, blah, blah . Then outside consultants would be hired at much cost (although money is not a problem for UT) . This will be followed by diversity and tolerance lectures for students, perhaps a few more ethnic studies courses offered, even a building named after civil rights leader, maybe separate Student unions base upon and decorated toward oppressed minorities cultures, open to all students of course, but set up to offer minority students a place to connect with their culture. The student body will do their part also with protests and petitions, perhaps demanding that bleach be banned from campus (even though the attacks took place off campus).

Meanwhile APD may or may not have caught the perpetrators.

Of course the perps may be swayed by the lectures on diversity and tolerance along with the courses on ethnic studies and not repeat their bleach bombing.

So did you read the Fark thread about the 13 year old white kid set on fire in a racial attack?
 
BMFPitt
2013-08-25 08:51:29 AM  
If anything serious ever happens at a college, you NEVER go to the school police.  Always straight to the real cops.
 
PainfulItching
2013-08-25 08:54:37 AM  

Uranus Is Huge!: Schools should never address or comment any crimes that occur on their campuses. Ever. Doing so often pollutes the police investigation, taints the future jury pool, and causes undue alarm in the community.

In fact, the press should keep quiet about crimes too. The police will let us know what we need to know.

I'm glad to see the Fark Klavern is up early this morning.


You said taint.
 
GoldSpider
2013-08-25 08:59:17 AM  

August11: Ok. But what message is silence?


The message is "We have nothing to do with this, so please let the proper farking authorities handle this."

Why does anybody feel they need an official response from the UT administration?
 
Matthew Keene
2013-08-25 08:59:40 AM  
I'll tell you something that would take balls. Having an August white sale in Detroit.
 
Lord Farkwad
2013-08-25 09:01:11 AM  
 
BraveNewCheneyWorld
2013-08-25 09:01:35 AM  

hasty ambush: So did you read the Fark thread about the 13 year old white kid set on fire in a racial attack?


It's not racism because the victim is white.

/this is what some people actually believe
 
Hoopy Frood
2013-08-25 09:01:44 AM  
ep·i·dem·ic [ep-i-dem-ik] adjective
1. [A]ffecting many persons at the same time...
 
GoldSpider
2013-08-25 09:02:21 AM  

KidneyStone: Then you have people like me that look at statistics that show that blacks murder whites at over twice the rate of whites murdering blacks.


*wink* Read ya loud and clear, buddy.  ;)
 
tccomp
2013-08-25 09:05:39 AM  
We don't know who is doing this... so it must be white racists.

I hate to use the term "false flag" but how about finding some evidence before assuming racism?
 
rurdy
2013-08-25 09:05:42 AM  
Why are they sick?
 
I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros
2013-08-25 09:06:00 AM  
I got ninety-nine problems, but a bleach ain't one.
 
Coming on a Bicycle
2013-08-25 09:07:12 AM  

here to help: People wonder why I give the "subtle" racists such a hard time on here. Well here's your answer. Your innuendo jacks up the climate to embolden others who may not be quite as subtle as you to do asinine sh*t like this.

I'm sure in their minds it's "just a joke" and that us libtards need to get a "sense of humor".

I'm sure someone will come along and defend these precocious rapscallions against the over reactions and oppression of the librul "PC police". At the very least they will derail the thread ignoring the actual assaults and deny racism exists and how racist it is that black people can say the "n wurd" but white people can't or some other such nonsense.


[Lightenupfrancis.jpg]
 
Rising_Zan_Samurai_Gunman
2013-08-25 09:07:43 AM  

kwame: This is a criminal matter. Even if there were something administration could do, it's standard practice to stay out of the way of a police investigation.


Not true of many universities when the crime in question is a rape or sexual assault.
 
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