A new set of alt right posters
were found Monday morning
on a University of Michigan
cylinder posting area on the
corner of South State Street
and North University, citing
websites
that
argue
race
determines
intelligence
and
anti-Muslim sentiments.
One of the posters featured
the Pepe the Frog meme, a
newfound symbol associated
with the alt right movement.
Several others portrayed an
Islam man killing a white
woman or characterizing the
LGBTQ community as a target
of violence by members of the
Muslim community.
Rackham
student
Austin
McCoy,
a
humanities
postdoctoral
fellow
at
the
University who found several
of the posters on campus, said
he thought the posters gave
quiet sympathizers a reason
to continue to harass minority
groups.
“I think at least when it
comes to these flyers and
these messages, they’re not
just beyond hurtful, they’re
violent,” McCoy said. “Or they
insinuate other groups, such
as LGBTQ folks or women, are
naive. If these ideas continue
to enter into the mainstream,
eventually, someone else who
sympathizes with these ideas
might act on them.”
These posters follow a week
of protest and discussion at the
University in response to three
types
of
anti-Black
posters
found hung up in Mason and
Haven Hall last week. One
of the posters included an
explanation of “race differences
in intelligence” and “reasons
why women shouldn’t date
Black men”.
In
a
statement
from
the
University
last
week,
administrators condemned the
fliers, saying that kind of speech
was not consistent with campus
values. As of Monday afternoon,
the University had not released
a statement on the new fliers.
University spokesperson Rick
Fitzgerald did not immediately
reply to a request for comment
Monday afternoon.
In remarks to the Senate
Advisory
Committee
on
Undergraduate
Affairs
last
week,
University
Provost
Martha Pollack noted that while
the University condemned the
speech, they were unable to
remove fliers posted in posting
kiosks, such as the Mason Hall
posting wall.
Over the past week, both
students
and
administrators
have organized multiple campus
events in response to the fliers
and a previously planned debate
over the merits of the Black
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University
of
Michigan
students
and
the
campus
community
wrote
messages
of hope on wooden tiles for an
installation aiming to shed light on
suicide and mental health issues
on the Diag Monday morning.
Christine
Asidao,
associate
director
of
community
engagement and outreach for
Counseling
and
Psychological
Services said the two-hour event,
titled Hope on the Diag, aimed
to humanize the issue of suicide
instead of talking about it through
statistics.
“(CAPS)
has
always
done
suicide prevention work, but a
few years ago a few of us had
individual stories where someone
we knew had died of suicide,”
Asidao said. “We really talked
about the importance of more
‘heart’ messages as opposed to
just the data that’s shared about
suicide.”
Asidao said the event has been
a regular feature of CAPS for the
past few years.
LSA
sophomore
Mayur
Bandekar, who said he lost an
acquaintance to suicide before
the school year began, was at
a loss of words as he faced the
wooden tiles, but still wanted to
send a positive message to those
who suffer from depression.
“I don’t know what to say,
dude,” Bandekar said. “But you
should always remember that
everything’s gonna be OK no
matter how bad it is right now,
no matter how dark your place
is right now, everything will
always be OK. You just gotta
always push through.”
Hope on the Diag also
featured a booth run by the
Silence Shoot, a Lansing-based
project that supports victims
of bullying and depression
through photography. Matthew
Bryan
Pruitt,
founder
and
photographer at the Silence
Shoot, started the project five
years ago as a way to bring a
sense of unity to his younger
brother
and
sister,
who
were bullied to the point of
contemplating suicide.
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ISHI MORI
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Students discover new set of alt right
posters on campus Monday afternoon
Flyers express anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ, anti-women sentiments
KEVIN BIGLIN
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