The Seattle Times covered the story of that Nazi who crashed a University of Washington psych class. A couple of new details: he invaded the class twice, once at the beginning when he ran away when campus security was called, and then at the end, which prompted the mass uprising by the class. And now we know a little more about his fate:
In a statement, the university called the classroom disruption “completely unacceptable” and said the individual is not a UW student. “The instructor and several students from the class followed the person until UWPD (University of Washington Police Department) personnel arrived and took him into custody,” the statement read. “We will be issuing a ban from campus.”
UW said the case remains under investigation, with criminal charges pending. The matter will be referred to the King County prosecuting attorney’s office.
University campuses are fairly open places — you want to visit the student union and buy an ice cream cone? Go ahead. You want to stroll through the hallways and see what students are doing? You can. You want to walk into a classroom and listen to a lecture for an hour? Entirely possible, although if you disrupt the class we will have zero tolerance for that nonsense. I’ve had visitors to my classes, and it’s never been a problem. Of course, they haven’t been Nazis.
On Reddit, there seems to be a problem on some campuses of aggressive homeless people. Lots of problems with theft and vandalism. Harassing women, camping out and wrecking bathrooms etc. Not Nazis or Pro-Palestinian agitators, but still a problem.
You’re not trying to pretend those are equivalent positions, are you?
@1: Since when have “pro-Palestinian agitators” actually acted enough like Nazis that one could so easily conflate the two?
@1: Ah, Reddit. A source known for being unimpeachably reliable and accurate and not engaging in flamebait or lying for political points.
What the hell was he trying to accomplish? Did he expect the class to immediately start burning their textbooks and join him in cleansing the fatherland of non-aryan scum? And why UW? It’s not exactly known as a hotbed of trumpist and magat dickheads.
Nazis and fascists are fundamentally antithetical to a free society. It’s not just about their methods, but their goals.
Wanting to end a genocide happening in Palestine is not anything like that.
Here I was thinking unapologetic criticism of the state of Israel is the only thing that gets you regularly banned from campuses nationwide these days, agitator or not.
I can only assume the alleged Nazi was craving a ban and was determined to make it happen.
Clearly, that thinking was incorrect, beholder. Facts trump fantasies.
He might have been trying to work up to something like this (note this was also a gender studies class):
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/university-waterloo-classroom-stabbing-attack-sentencing-hate-crime-1.7442612
@ 7. De facto Trump supporting bad faith troll beholder : “I can only assume the alleged Nazi was craving a ban..”
Emphasis added.
Alleged eh? Really? You think the nazi here was NOT a nazi somehow – why?