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In the wake of a potential visit 

from white supremacist Richard 
Spencer, a coalition of University 
of Michigan students, faculty 
and staff have established the 
“Have Your Speech and Eat It 
Too” campaign, pledging money 
to 
organizations 
supporting 

issues such as immigrant rights, 
emergency housing for abused 
women and families in Ann Arbor 
and food injustice for the Black 
community in Detroit. The funds 
are allocated for each word spoken 
at Spencer’s Monday speech at 
Michigan State University, as 

well as his possible speech at the 
University next semester.

University 
community 

members created the campaign 
as a way to stand in solidarity 
with those who are threatened 
by Spencer’s white nationalist 
rhetoric. At the time of publication 
Monday night, the campaign 
raised $7,623 from 114 total 
donations. 

Silke-Maria Weineck, professor 

of 
German 
and 
comparative 

literature, is one of the faculty 
members involved in the campaign 
and explained the inspiration for 
the initiative came from similar 
anti-fascist protests in Wunsiedal, 
Germany, beginning in 2014, that 

were organized in response to 
an annual neo-Nazi march in the 
town. In protest, residents donated 
money for each step the neo-Nazis 
took in their city. Instead of steps, 
the initiative at the University 
will donate money based on word 
count.

“The more (Spencer) dribbles 

on with his super hateful stuff, 
the more money we can raise 
for causes that he would abhor,” 
Weineck said.

Lecturer Anne Berg, the History 

Department’s assistant director of 
undergraduate studies, is another 
faculty member involved with the 
campaign. Berg wrote in an email 
interview she hoped the campaign 

would turn the words of 
the white supremacists into 
something more positive.

“For me personally the 

most important aspect of this 
fundraiser is to not be merely 
reactive to the threats made by 
white supremacists agistators 
(sic) but to repurpose their 
provocations and their hate 
speech to support anti-racist 
work in our communities 
– to build up the strength 
of those organizations and 
groups that fight systemic 
racism and inequality on 
a daily basis,” Berg wrote. 
“What those of us involved 
in putting this together like 
about the fundraiser is that it 
is subversive – it mocks white 
supremacists and essentially 
shoves their hate speech down 
their own throats, with every 
word they speak, with every 
appearance they make, they 
are actually strengthening 
the very groups they mobilize 
against.”

Weineck also discussed the 

dilemma the University faces 
when controversial speakers 
invite themselves to speak on 

campus. She said the University 
community is faced with the 
decision of either legitimizing a 
dangerous rhetoric or staging large 
protests.

“When instigators come to 

college campuses, they set up a 
bit of a trap,” Weineck said. “If 
you just let them speak like you 
let any other speaker speak, you 
legitimize what they have to say. 
If you block them from speaking 
then you have big protests – which 
I respect by the way … It’s a bit of a 
Catch 22.”

Looking toward the future, 

Weineck said she hopes the 
campaign 
will 
offer 
support 

to minority groups who are 
marginalized 
by 
Spencer’s 

messages.

“I hope that we can really turn 

what is meant to be a very divisive 
and hateful event into a show 
of community and love even if 
that sounds a little sappy but to 
come together to say that we are 
protecting vulnerable groups from 
letting someone hate on them we 
actually turn your nasty dribble 
against you and every word you 
say will raise money for people you 
don’t think belong here,” Weineck 
said.

Berg 
shared 
Weineck’s 

sentiment and said she wants 
to see the campaign continue to 
develop.

“I hope it grows,” Berg wrote. 

“I hope it gets lots of press. I hope 
it’ll travel to wherever white 
supremacists attempt to spread 
their hateful platform of ‘white 
pride,’ ‘ethnostates’ and ‘peaceful 
ethnic cleansing’ so we can focus 
on the real work, the work to 
change our institutions and make 
our communities more inclusive, 
instead of spending our energy 
keeping Nazis off our campuses, 
out of our schools and out of our 
communities.”

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