There’s a reporting that a there is a Facebook page created for the white audience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign called “Illini White Students Union” and has gained many followers even outside the university and is growing, we’re not even done yet, the group has drawn even more attention after it characterized the national Black Lives Matter movement as “terrorism”. You’ve had to read more on this story and spread it…
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of groups slandering the Black Lives Matter movement but this one is really pushing it because its now coming from a collective of people instead of just one. The page, created Wednesday after a protest sympathetic to Black Lives Matter, declared itself “for white students of University of Illinois to be able to form a community and discuss our own issues as well as be able to organize against the terrorism we have been facing from Black Lives Matter activists on campus,” as the Daily Illini reported. A Campus spokeswoman from Robin Kaler said the University has been working with Facebook to have the Illini White Student Union page removed from the site. It was taken down in fact but they revived right after and the posts on their are just getting out of hand. Just hours after students gathered in front of the Illini Union for a black student solidarity rally. The page directly singled out activists and sympathizers to the Black Lives Matter movement, describing itself as “a new page for white students of University of Illinois [sic] to be able to form a community and discuss our own issues as well as be able to organize against the terrorism we have been facing from Black Lives Matter activists on campus.”
Some students have told administrators the page, and the posts made, have caused them to feel unsafe. Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson said the University most foster an environment “where we can build understanding by truly listening to each other; and where we can benefit from the ideas, talents and perspectives of everyone in our Illinois community. The page even went as far as to encouraged students to send in photographs of students who attended the rally on the Main Quad to identify “anti-whites,” and said it was dedicated to exposing Black Lives Matter’s “hatred for white people and police officers.”
The University released a statement condemning the creation of the page on Wednesday night. The University called the page’s posts “clearly… offensive to our university community.” and further said, “While they may be protected exercises of free speech, they are offensive, divisive and stunningly narrow-minded expressions.” even with the page was removed, someone reopened it all over again. If you find the page offensive, report it if you want but check the page in the gallery and a link to the page is below as well. Freedom of speech or abuse of speech?
Facebook Page: White Students Union Page
Source: Daily Illinois
