Campus Radicals Go Bananas At The Colleges That Created Them
The same institutions of higher education that have brought us the DEI cult are cowering in fear of offending the genocide-defending pirates.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is set to host a "Welcome BBQ" that is reportedly only intended for students of color, The College Fix reports.
The move comes just weeks after officials were forced to remove a "racist" boulder from the campus.
The outlet obtained a flyer outlining the event, which is scheduled for Sept. 12.
The "Welcome BBQ" flyer states that the free event is for "students of color," and is intended to welcome back students who are "self-identified people of color."
"All are welcome, intended for self-identify people of color," a portion of the flyer adds.
The university's Center for Cultural Enrichment is hosting the event. Its mission includes "embracing all races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender expressions, religions, classes, abilities, or any other aspects of identity we hold."
In a Tuesday morning statement to the outlet, UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith McGlone said that there is "nothing unusual" about the way that the campus is advertising the event, despite it not showing up on the campus events calendar nor the University Housing events and activities page. The outlet noted that to the contrary, a "Latinx New Student Welcome" was posted online.
“Regarding event promotion … it is standard practice for Housing to use signs rather than online listings to promote events organized within the hall intended primarily for hall residents," she told the outlet. “The Latinx Student Welcome is not organized by Housing and is targeted to a broader audience, which is why it's promoted online."
School officials removed a "racist" boulder from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus earlier this month at the request of minority students who said that the massive boulder symbolized racism.
According to the Associated Press, many students of color on the campus said that Chamberlin Rock — named after geologist and former university president Thomas Crowder Chamberlin — "represents a history of discrimination," as the boulder was previously referred to as a "derogatory name for black people in a Wisconsin State Journal story in 1925."
"The derogatory term was commonly used in the 1920s to describe any large dark rock," the news agency noted. "University historians have not found any other time that the term was used, but they said the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus at that time, the Wisconsin State Journal reported."
The rock was removed and placed on university-owned land near Wisconsin's Lake Kegonsa.
One student told the outlet that she was glad to see the rock depart the campus.
“This moment is about the students, past and present, that relentlessly advocated for the removal of this racist monument," the student said. “Now is a moment for all of us BIPOC students to breathe a sigh of relief, to be proud of our endurance, and to begin healing."
Another added, "It's not the rock's fault that it got that terrible and unfortunate nickname. But the fact that it's ... being moved shows that the world is getting a little better today."
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's police chief has banned the force's officers from using the "Thin Blue Line" imagery while on duty, according to a report from ABC News.
In December, the department came under fire after an innocuous social media photo from the department featured a Thin Blue Line flag on one of the departments walls.
Social media users branded the photo "toxic" and said that the flag is a "sign of racism and conservatism."
Despite the outcry, Chief Kristen Roman at the time stuck by the flag and its presence in the office.
"The 'thin blue line' phrase and associated imagery date back decades," she said in a December statement. "To many within and outside of the police procession, it symbolized a commitment to public service and the countless selfless sacrifices willingly made to honor that commitment, up to and including laying down one's life to protect the lives of others."
The Wisconsin State Journal reported that some people associate the flag with the riot that took place at the U.S. Capitol in early January.
"Some see the controversial flag as a symbol of solidarity with police," the outlet's Emily Hamer writes, "but it has also been flown by white supremacists, including those who stormed the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 in an attempt to overturn the legitimate election defeat of former President Donald Trump. Five people, including a U.S. Capitol Police officer, died in the riot."
According to the report, Roman said that the flag had been "co-opted" by extremists with "hateful ideologies."
In a mid-January email, Roman said, "We must consider the cost of clinging to a symbol that is undeniably and inextricably linked to actions and beliefs antithetical to UWPD's values."
The ban on the imagery, according to the outlet, includes "flags, pins, bracelets, notebooks, coffee mugs, and other items."
Tattoos, the outlet reported, are an exception.
KMGH-TV on Friday reported that Roman added, "At the end of the day, we have dedicated ourselves to a profession that demands service above self. As such, relevant community concerns, perceptions, and fears necessarily outweigh our shared professional investment in a symbol that presently separates and alienates us from those we have promised to serve."
The chief added, however, that she would consider possible exceptions for "event-specific displays such as line-of-duty death observances."
Roman added, "My intent is not that we reject outright the symbol for what we understand it to represent, nor do I believe it to be inherently racist/fascist as many purport. Instead, my intent is to be reasonably responsive to its detrimental impact on many in our community for whom the visible symbol holds a very different meaning."
KMGH also noted that Trump supporters at the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot carried "thin blue line" flags with them.
The Wisconsin State Journal added that Roman, too, was "hurt and disappointed" over banning the emblem.
"I understand that this decision may cause emotional responses, even anger from some," Roman said in the statement. "I, too, feel hurt and disappointed as we confront our current reality. I know this is hard. I know this issue is complicated."
CV Vitolo-Haddad, a white University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student, has resigned from a teaching assistant position after being caught pretending to be a black person, according to reports.
Following allegations, Vitolo-Haddad admitted she is not black or Latino. She is in fact, a white Italian American. After the revelation of racial misrepresentation, Vitolo-Haddad stepped down from her teaching assistant position. She also resigned as co-president of UW-Madison's chapter Teaching Assistants' Association.
A Medium post from an anonymous person made allegations that Vitolo-Haddad pretended to be a person of color. The motivation for the post came from the recent news about Jessica A. Krug, a white history professor at George Washington University specializing in African studies who "canceled" herself earlier this month after admitting that she lied about being black. The school is now offering counseling to students impacted by Krug's racial dishonesty.
"When the Jessica A. Krug story came out yesterday I was shocked, but not by the extent of her deception. What caught my attention, instead, were the parallels between her story and that of someone I know," the Medium post said. "I have long suspected CV Vitolo, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, of engaging in the same kind of race-shifting and copious lying that now has people enraged with Krug (and which distracts from the important work and struggles of actual Black thinkers, both in and outside of the academy)."
"I first met CV around four years ago, when they joined the Department of Communication Arts at UW Madison where I, as an affiliate of the university, had many friends," the anonymous claim reads. "They were quick to call themselves a 'person of color,' intimating that perhaps we even shared some heritage."
The Medium entry shared social media posts from Vitolo-Haddad, claiming that she "heavily implied that they were Latinx" and was a victim of racism.
"Though their claim to a POC identity was vague, the one consistency was their insistence that they were a constant target of acts of racism and that they came from some kind of nonwhite background," the post said.
"According to the post, Vitolo-Haddad's last name, Haddad, was 'appropriated' from a previous marriage, and Vitolo-Haddad grew up in a wealthy Italian family in Florida," the Badger Herald reported.
There is also an 11-page document "compiled and researched by a collective of Madison academics and activists who have had a variety of personal experience with CV." The document detailed Vitolo-Haddad's actions while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including her alleged "racial misrepresentation."
Vitolo-Haddad wrote an apology in a Medium post on Sept. 6, the New York Post reported.
"I am so deeply sorry for the ways you are hurting right now because of me," Vitolo-Haddad wrote in the post. "You have expressed confusion, shock, betrayal, anger, and mistrust. All of those things are a consequence of how I have navigated our relationships and the spaces we share."
"I have let guesses about my ancestry become answers I wanted but couldn't prove," Vitolo-Haddad wrote. "I have let people make assumptions when I should have corrected them."
"The first step towards that, however, is to resign my position as co-president of the Teaching Assistants' Association (TAA)," Vitolo-Haddad continued. "Second, I have resigned from my teaching position at UW-Madison."
"Education is build on a foundation of trust and accountability, and until I repair that I should not be teaching," said Vitolo-Haddad, who worked at UW-Madison's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Vitolo-Haddad penned a second apology on Medium on Sept. 8 where she claimed that her "parents have conflicting stories" about their ancestry.
"First, I am deeply sorry and regretful to the people I deceived by inserting myself into Black organizing spaces I didn't belong in," the post stated. "That deception was parasitic and harmful."
"What I know is that I am Southern Italian/Sicilian," Vitolo-Haddad stated. "In trying to make sense of my experiences with race, I grossly misstepped. I went along with however people saw me. I over-identified with unreliable and unproven family history and latched onto anything I remembered growing up."
"When asked if I identify as Black, my answer should have always been 'No,'" Vitolo-Haddad said. "I should have never entered Black organizing spaces. They are not my place. Once realizing this, it wasn't sufficient to just leave; I should have explained that directly to the people who invited me and clarified my identity."
"I want to apologize for ever taking lies about Cuban roots at face value, and for subsequently attaching myself to people's perceptions of me as though it would provide answers where there are none," Vitolo-Haddad added. "Additionally, I want to apologize for how my failure to own up to these harmful decisions publicly made every conversation on social media about the varied ways I've been racialized a source of confusion and deception."
"What I know now is that perception is not reality. Race is not flat, it is a social construct rife with contradictions," Vitolo-Haddad wrote. "Fighting racism never required dissociating myself from whiteness. In fact, it derailed the cause by centering my experience."
The TAA condemned Vitolo-Haddad in a statement. "We condemn CV Vitolo-Haddad's appropriation of Black and Brown identities in no uncertain terms … we recognize that our union is the product of a labor movement infused with white supremacy and anti-Blackness," the TAA said.
The TAA accused Vitolo-Haddad of "manipulating and gaslighting Black and Brown community members who tried holding them accountable." The TAA apologized for "unknowingly rewarded the toxic opportunism of performing Blackness."
In light of recent allegations, CV Vitolo-Haddad has officially stepped down from their position as TAA co-presiden… https://t.co/FzvnKWLysq— TAA (@TAA)1599484950.0
UW-Madison spokeswoman Meredith McGlone confirmed that Vitolo-Haddad no longer works at the university.
"UW-Madison expects that people represent themselves authentically and accurately in all aspects of their academic work," McGlone told the The Daily Cardinal.
California State University, Fresno, recently offered a tenure-track job to Vitolo-Haddad for the fall 2021 semester, but is reconsidering after the recent allegations of racial fraud.
"The Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs is aware of the concerns regarding CV Vitolo-Haddad that have been appearing online," the school said in a statement released on Sept. 14. "Please know that this matter is currently under review. The University will always uphold its core values of discovery, diversity and distinction. We are taking this matter seriously and acknowledge the pain and confusion this situation has caused members of our campus and external community."
Vitolo-Haddad wrote extensively about white nationalism in articles and on her now-deleted Twitter account. She also wrote articles titled, "Dear White People: Loving A Black Person Isn't Activism" and "Who Gets To Punch Nazis, And When, According To The American Public." Vitolo-Haddad's YouTube channel, Doctoral Defense, features videos titled, "Examining Race" and "What the Right Gets Wrong About Biology."
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