Dartmouth College Cancels Classes After Sexual Assault Protesters Receive Rape Threats

[DonViejo]

By Annie-Rose Strasser posted from ThinkProgress Health on Apr 24, 2013 at 12:52 pm

Some Dartmouth College students have received rape and death threats following their public protest against the school’s attitude toward sexual assault, racism, and homophobia. Dartmouth on Wednesday canceled its scheduled classes to address the growing crisis.

The college announced in a letter to students that it will hold “alternative programming… that promotes respect for individuals, civil and engaged discourse, and the value of diverse opinions.” From the programming, it’s not immediately clear that the school plans to discuss Dartmouth’s notoriously pervasive culture of sexual assault, victim-blaming, and policies that continue to fail students (exactly what the protesters, during their initial outburst at a prospective students’ event, had called for). But administrators promise that the programming will address the threats.

Many of the threats, and generally hateful sentiments, were posted on the anonymous message board site Bored At Baker, which has since been taken offline. The messages, meant to disprove the idea that racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance of sexual assault are real problems at Dartmouth, actually do the exact opposite. Screenshots of the anonymous comments are available from Real Talk Dartmouth:

full article:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/24/1911741/dartmouth-protest-cancels-classes/

[mike_c]

1. true story-- a good friend of mine teaches critical gender and sexuality studies...

...in Northern California and she recently told me that while her students were tabling for their annual Take Back the Night actions, one man insisted on telling them battered woman jokes and another stopped to tell them that women wouldn't be raped as often if they didn't dress like sluts and whores.

WTF is wrong with people?

[seabeyond]

6. struggle to maintain dominance. men are holding on tight. btw, the "jokes"

were not meant for a laugh, but to put the women in their place.

[geek tragedy]

2. Just another isolated incident, no such thing as rape culture, nope. nt

[CTyankee]

3. No wonder Dartmouth used to be referred to as "Smartmouth."

[Rex]

4. Who runs Dartmouth College and why are they still in charge?

Rape culture...nope doesn't exist.

[DonViejo]

5. Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham attended Dartmouth...

in the early to mid 80's; she made a name for herself there by writing letters to the parents of closeted lesbians and gay men. Informing the parents that their daughter/son was a member of Dartmouth's Lesbian and Gay Center and wondering if the parents knew of their kid's sexual preference (sic).

[seabeyond]

7. that is disgusting. disgusting human being. nt

[alp227]

8. Dinesh D'Souza also attended Dartmouth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza

Look how crazy he turned out to be. There's a reason why he's called "Distort D'Newsa". He was also behind that dumb movie 2016: Obama's America and book The Roots of Obama's Rage, basically a book-length version of Glenn Beck's "Obama has a deep-seeded hatred of America" comment and everything short of calling Obama the N-word.