27 CommentsA few bits of news that have built up over the last few days.
Stepping over the line: The image at right is a poster found on Sunday in Lerner and sent to Bwog yesterday, mimicking the graffiti found in a SIPA bathroom stall about a month ago. We’re presuming it’s trying to make the same point as the posters down at George Washington a few weeks ago…a bit more bluntly.
Shades of Gilchrist: David Horowitz tried to speak at Emory last night, but got heckled off the stage by what appears to have been an outside group. Emory’s College Republicans effectively parlayed the incident into a PR coup, while accusations of fascism whizzed over the heads of those assembled. Tomorrow’s event at Columbia is being tightly controlled–the Emory paper didn’t make clear whether their lecture was RSVP-only, which it seems might have helped things.
Hillel under pressure: We mentioned a few days ago that the Progressive Jewish Alliance was petitioning the Hillel Executive Board to “denounce ‘Islamo-fascism Awareness Week’ as a campaign of misinformation, malice, and hatred against our Muslim colleagues at Columbia.” They ended up presenting 150 signatures, and the board responded with a carefully worded statement, which reads as follows:
“The Columbia/Barnard Hillel is primarily a religious and cultural group, not a political one, and did not have any role in the invitation of David Horowitz, or any role in his ‘Islamo-Fascism Week.’ David Horowitz speaks only for himself as an individual, not on behalf of the entire Jewish Community.”
Not exactly a denunciation, but it seems to have made the PJA happy.
Tomorrow there will be an open-mic speakout and rally at the Sundial at 11:00 AM, a panel discussion with various lefties at noon in Lerner C569 (see details on the events calendar), and the man himself speaks at 12:30 in Lerner Cinema. Look out for coverage as the day progresses.
– LBD
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@uoeuoe LMAO that flyer is hilarious. whoever posted that roolz.
@Weird Although this one is obviously not by the CR, it seems to be made by someone with a tactless sense of sarcasm.
Has anyone noticed a tendency in flyers to proclaim self-inflammatory statements in order to solicit some understanding? Last year there were some regarding Financial Aid. This year there were also some Latino ones, with phrases like “Is your father a druglord?” or something…
@Anonymous even as satire, this takes the line and jumps over it.
@hmmm Chris Kulawik probably doesn’t know any Irish people
@this is different this door shit caused quite a stir, some right-wing asshole throws it this way, this poster is a nice way of throwing it back.
@... I mean, clearly this commentator doesn’t know what to expect any more considering that Kulawik runs the republicans on campus…
I mean, this seems to be a modest proposal type satire but someone like Kulawid would be the type to propose eating irish babies……
@you know whats hilarious–how the claim that islamofascist dehumanizes an entire group falsely is made by the same people who make these absurd anti republican/kulawik/any thing right of ‘lets rush the stage against the suxors!!!’ statements
but yeah. republicans eat babies. that’s why we want to stop abortions. it’d solve world hunger
@... You realize my point about him eating irish babies was:
A) Just a joke
B) An allusion to Jonathon Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.” Not literally saying he would eat babies.
@oh god do you mean to tell me jonathan swift was kidding about eating the babies?
oh, man. i am totally fucked.
@rjt He totally just tried to pass it off like he was kidding afterwards, as an excuse. Really, Jonathan Swift just wanted some baby meat.
@rjt My comment there was in reference to Blacky Fun Whitey, that people might have understood the joke better with something like the republican elephant that IS on this poster.
@maybe the GW article is being ironic about the ironic flyers. It would be hilarious if it was. But. . . I doubt it.
@they weren't some background–this case actually caused some grief for the GW admin
Their posters were also hateful [imagine if some right wing group started claiming the MSA or somebody supported teh protocols of zion when finkelstein came to speak] and disingenuous ‘satire’ like these posters (the only indication was a small bit at the bottom which a lot of students claimed they couldn’t even read as they walked by them) and as a result the admin almost immediately started asking for renunciations by the local chapter of YAF and promised stern consequences for the creators (including expulsion) http://www.gwhatchet.com/news/2007/10/08/News/AntiMuslim.Posters.Cause.Stir.Administrative.Response-3018800.shtml
Of course, once it turned out the posters were created to inspire hate towards the YAF group by far left students the administration backtracked and now is asking for patience as they go through the process http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/10/08/News/Seven.Gw.Students.Admit.To.Hanging.Controversial.Posters-3022092.shtml
@WTF? “Laser eyes” wasn’t enough of a hint for you?
@Tuco Angel Eyes?
@There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend.
@bwog enough flyers. seriously. enough.
@THE KING We’re gonna blow up McDonald’s!
@is sarcasm only for white europeans as well, or is there some other guideline that determines who gets or doesn’t get the facetiousness of this poster?
@nitpicker If you’re gonna be a racist douche, you should at least work on your handwriting so I don’t have to spend so long deciphering your inanity. (I initially thought we were gonna wake up and blow up McDonald’s, not Medina, and for a minute there I was like, hey, that could actually help our ever-expanding-ass situation over here, then I read it again…)
And furthermore, America isn’t for Europeans, white or otherwise. Europe is for Europeans. America is for everyone. It’s not like Whitey was even the first to lay claim to all of the territory, anyway. So unless you are of 100% Native American descent, you don’t have a leg to stand on with regards to bitching about immigrants. I don’t care if your family came over on the Mayflower, the Nina, the Pinta, or the Santa-fricking-Maria, you’re still of an immigrant background in this country. If you’re so hung up on white Europeans, move to a whiteish European country. I wish you the best of luck, though – racism in Europe is handled in an even graver and less tolerated manner than it is here. Your backwards-assed xenophobic shit won’t fly there, and hopefully someday it won’t fly here, either.
@uhh looks like this guy didn’t get the joke either…
maybe he/she goes to GWU?
@invisible_hand you know who else didn’t get the joke? the MSA. and if that flyer is supposed to be in actuality in support of the muslim community on campus, then they probably should have checked it out with them beforehand.
@LOL LOL OMG
@rjt If this is pretend idiocy, it’s pretty brilliant. But I don’t think it is, and that’s awesome. The GWU article is actually even funnier than this post because there’s more actual humor (thus more to miss) in the GWU version of the joke.
Actual question: why do people appear to get this joke (okay except for #1), but did not at all get Blacky Fun Whitey?
@because it wasn’t made at the expense of an UNPOPULAR minority?
@rjt By that do you mean CUCR? That might be a good explanation, that some sort of frame claiming it had been written by conservatives would have made the joke clearer.
@what about the republican elephant? i mean, that certainly seems identifiable with CUCR