Anti-Semitic Valentine’s Cards Blamed On College Republicans Were FAKE NEWS

On Thursday everyone was crying and stomping and yelling about how College Republicans at Central Michigan University had apparently passed out the anti-semitic valentines pictured above. I’m really over today’s state of constant offense, but when I saw these, even I thought it was a pretty stupid move.

At the time of incident:

The group apologized on Facebook, saying it doesn’t condone anti-Semitism and that the card was made and placed in the bag without its knowledge. The group didn’t identify the member who placed the card in the bag.

 

Central Michigan spokeswoman Sherry Knight told Mount Pleasant’s local paper, The Morning Sun, that the school is “deeply disappointed.” She says campus leaders are meeting Thursday to discuss the incident.

The College Republicans posted the following apology to their Facebook, which attempted to further explain that they did not know where the card came from:

At tonight’s College Republican meeting, we had a Valentine’s Day party, in which each member decorated a bag and other members placed valentines inside of others’ bags. Unfortunately, a very inappropriate card was placed into a bag without other members’ knowledge. A bag was then given away to students sitting in Anspach [Hall], once again without members’ knowledge of its contents. The College Republicans as an organization did not distribute this valentine. We in no way condone this type of rhetoric or anti-Semitism. We apologize for any offense, and want students to know that we do not tolerate this sort of behavior.

Their apology was not accepted. The card of course caused the typical liberal outrage. The story was posted all over liberal media sites as “just another example of how racist and hateful Republicans are.”

That statement brings this reaction from Ron Fruitman of West Bloomfield, commenting under a four-paragraph AP item at the Detroit Free Press‘ site:

 

Apology not accepted. Expulsion is the remedy and decertification of the group.

 

This is clearly Trump/Bannon speak. They now feel free to spew hatred.

 

Several dozen people rallied on campus Thursday against hate speech and CMU President George Ross issued this statement:

We are deeply disappointed by last night’s situation with a Valentine card containing an inappropriate sentiment that was produced during a student organization meeting. This is not who we are as a campus community. Such hurtful, offensive language, while protected by the First Amendment, is unacceptable and is not consistent with our values and standards.

 

We once again urge each of our students, faculty and staff to be beacons of peace, respect, inclusivity and civility — to be role models of integrity, dignity and leadership. At Central Michigan University, we stand up against hate, protect the safety of all, and build bridges of understanding that bring people together.

 

Cindy Hughey, executive director of the Hillel Jewish Student Center at the university, said the Jewish community on campus is “deeply concerned and disappointed that students would use anti-Semitic rhetoric and references to the Holocaust in a joking manner,” Lindsey Bever writes in The Washington Post. Her article, which draws nearly 500 comments in four hours, adds:

 

“We find these references . . . trivialize an incredibly dark period in history when more than 6 million Jews perished,” she said in a statement.

 

Numerous social media posts condemn the insensitive card.

 

Eric Baerren, a Mount Pleasant blogger, says on Facebook that the young Republicans “go into Trump-like damage control mode when people don’t find it funny.” He also wonders “just what else those people say when it’s just members of the College Republicans.”

 

“Hatred is out there!” tweets Bernard Silverman in another reaction.

 

“I must have lived a sheltered life because this kind of behavior shocks me,” tweets Joseph Moore. “Expulsion!”

Well guys, as many of you could have probably guessed, the College Republicans, who have already been completely dragged through the mud for this, HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. Interesting how the liberal media that was SO interested in College Republicans handing out this card has completely lost interest in this story now that we know it wasn’t them.

The woman who created an anti-Semitic Valentine’s card featuring Adolf Hitler that was handed out by Central Michigan University College Republicans earlier this week admitted her role and has left the university’s town, the school said in a statement Friday.

 

The unnamed “young woman” who created the card was not a student, according to the university, and she is no longer in the town of Mount Pleasant. It is not clear if she was a part of the organization or why she was involved in the College Republicans’ event.

How very interesting. So basically some liberal blowhard wanted to discredit this group of College Republicans, and of course conservatives as a whole, so she snuck these tasteless cards into their well-intentioned goodie bags. That is some major BS. What is WRONG with these people?!