Comments on: A Vigil for Hate Crimes? http://idiversity.org/a-vigil-for-hate-crimes Ideas Without Labels Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:33:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew E. Kurtzman http://idiversity.org/a-vigil-for-hate-crimes/comment-page-1#comment-114 Andrew E. Kurtzman Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:12:57 +0000 http://idiversity.org/?p=184#comment-114 To be fair, this was a student-organized event, and not a creation of the URI administration -- which only went so far as to send a campus-wide email condemning the vandals. HAD the University organized this, they rightly should be questioned for hyper-sensitivity. The vandalism barely qualifies on the register of significant hate crimes. (Though it certainly was despicable.) But to your point, this sort of vigil is likely only to encourage the vandals. As they say on the Internets: "don't feed the trolls." To be fair, this was a student-organized event, and not a creation of the URI administration — which only went so far as to send a campus-wide email condemning the vandals. HAD the University organized this, they rightly should be questioned for hyper-sensitivity. The vandalism barely qualifies on the register of significant hate crimes. (Though it certainly was despicable.)

But to your point, this sort of vigil is likely only to encourage the vandals. As they say on the Internets: “don’t feed the trolls.”

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