Texas university criticizes, but says it can't stop, a planned "white lives matter" rally on campus

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

https://apnews.com/568a8c90362b4c9eacbe2762137d84cc

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University has criticized the views of a white nationalist who is planning a “white lives matter” rally on campus next month.

A&M spokeswoman Amy Smith told The Battalion student newspaper that Preston Wiginton’s rhetoric is “counter to the core values of Texas A&M.”

Smith said in an earlier statement to The Dallas Morning News that the university didn’t invite any white nationalists, but that it can’t stop them from coming. She says anyone can reserve space on the public university’s campus.

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Bullshit, you could if you wanted to.........

[redstatebluegirl]

1. I worked for an A&M alum who was an associate dean there for a long time.

He was a racist and sexist toad.

[dalton99a]

2. So there are not enough students and staff on campus who can reserve space to block the Nazis?

"She says anyone can reserve space on the public university’s campus"

[mythology]

5. That would effectively require booking every space

24/7 every day, thus making the system useless.

[procon]

8. Sure, if its available, but if repair work is going on and the only spot open

is a weedy lot behind the maintenance shed, that's the choice. There are any number of ways that the campus could have employed to block hate groups.

[Fresh_Start]

3. best thing to do is for the students and media to boycott their gathering

maybe leave them something to show them what you think of them...what would a nazi snowflake look like? or a nazi chicken? or a white supremacist yellow belly coward?

[workinclasszero]

4. Can't ignore Nazis. Lots of folks in pre-war Germany thought the same....

These people have already killed one innocent American.

What's the death toll going to be at Texas A&M I wonder?

[dalton99a]

11. Texas A&M leads Princeton Review list of most conservative state schools

http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Texas-A-M-leads-list-of-most-conservative-schools-6435734.php
Texas A&M leads Princeton Review list of most conservative state schools
Matt Levin | Updated 3:42 pm, Monday, August 10, 2015

Young people tend to take a left turn in college. Not so in Texas. Student bodies in tune with right-wing values thrive in a few of the state's top colleges.

Texas A&M at College Station, which has one of the largest undergraduate enrollments in the nation, has the most conservative student body on campus, according to the Princeton Review.

[tritsofme]

6. A remedial civics class is in order, not only for our president, but for many on DU as well.

The First Amendment doesn't bend when speech makes you angry.

[alarimer]

9. Doesn't mean there can't be consequences for their "rally."

The university is well within their rights to expel them for behavior contrary to the code of conduct (but it's A&M, so I won't hold my breath).

I want these cretins expelled, fired, and blacklisted from being hired anywhere decent.

I want them socially ostracized and shunned completely. if they own businesses, let them be boycotted into bankruptcy. Let them be excluded from all civil society.

If you work with any, tell your boss and theirs you know what they are and refuse to work with them.

How else will we stamp it out unless we (us, not the government) make it clear that this association is completely unacceptable. Their should be consequences for their behavior and for their speech.

[alarimer]

7. I will burn my A&M diploma live on Facebook, if this goes through. n/t

[Initech]

10. WTF is going on here????

With everything that happened in the wake of last weekend, you really are going to put students in jeopardy and allow this to go through?

[Gothmog]

12. Rep: Texas A&M cancels Sept. 11 White Lives Matter event

Yeah http://www.chron.com/local/education/campus-chronicles/article/Rep-Texas-A-M-cancels-Sept-11-White-Lives-11818626.php?ipid=ntk

Rep. John Raney said Monday on the House floor that a white supremacist rally on Texas A&M University's campus has been cancelled. A university spokeswoman confirmed the news later Monday, citing safety concerns.

Texas A&M administrators consulted with law enforcement, system leaders and regents before cancelling the rally, spokeswoman Amy Smith said.

Preston Wiginton, a former Texas A&M student, had announced on Saturday that he would host a White Lives Matter event in College Station on Sept. 11. He planned to host a White Lives Matter representative from Houston and Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who espoused racist views on that campus in December.