Gustavus Adolphus College's diversity council admits it posted "White Nation" posters

"On Monday, the Diversity Leadership Council published an apology on their Facebook page for posting flyers asking "all white Americans" to report "any and all illegal aliens."

According to the post, a subcommittee within the organization, which represents 20 on-campus groups, posted the flyers with accompanying A-frames detailing how to fight implicit bias."

https://mic.com/articles/172082/gus...its-it-posted-white-nation-posters#.bragA6qmY

Quick note: the claim that the posters were accompanied by A-frames has been called false by students who tore down the posters and didn't see any A-frames. Below is an image of the poster.



This story has been making its rounds, picked up by the Washington Times, NPR, and even Milo Yiannopoulos.

The postings were made by the campus Diversity Leadership Council, with prior go-ahead from the administration.

Guys - this is my alma mater. This was posted on the doors of halls where I spent half my undergraduate studies. I know people still attending who saw these firsthand, and the aftermath has been incredible, with social justice warriors saying that the real problem is "white dudes" and how they responded to it. Saying things like, "what is so sad is that we got to a place where this was necessary."

This is wrong and crappy no matter how you shake it. If white supremacy is a real problem, then making fake postings only detracts from it, creating a "boy who cried wolf" situation. We've already seen this play out during the election. Rising reports of hate crimes were accompanied by a slew of cases where reports turned out to be blatantly false, and with many of those hate crimes being against Trump supporters for voicing their own beliefs. Cases like this raise questions about other such hate crimes, leading people to doubt the validity of actual hate crimes. On this same campus during the election, a young woman was hit for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. On this same campus there is a rock that students are welcome to paint, and in 2016 when someone painted "Make America Great Again", this campus held public meetings for students to talk about how the "bias incident" affected them.

It's pretty Orwellian when people say that white supremacy is such a problem in America that they "needed" to manufacture cases of it.