Organizations that track hate crimes have seen a rise in reports since the presidential election. The Southern Poverty Law Center has recorded more than 700 incidents of hate or violence against minorities, 16 percent of them on college campuses, even though colleges are perceived as liberal oases. Many of the episodes, on campuses and off, involved references to President-elect Donald J. Trump. Here’s the latest:
November 22, 2016
Arizona State University has joined a string of colleges that have been plastered with racist or threatening fliers. A university official told The Arizona Republiche had seen one poster that said, “The age of white guilt is over!” He called it “saddening.”
The university said in a statement that student safety is a priority and that “ASU is a place where open debate can thrive and honest disagreements can be explored, but not when hateful rhetoric is used.”
Four University of Kansas cheerleaders were suspended from their squad after a photo captioned “KKK go trump” was posted to a female cheerleader’s Snapchat account, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. The other three cheerleaders, who are men, were pictured in the offending Snapchat wearing sweaters with the letter “K” for Kansas on the front.
