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demmiblue

(36,875 posts)
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 08:19 PM Feb 2018

Nebraska students say university is ignoring warnings about an active white nationalist on campus

Source: Think Progress

Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln say the university has not taken action against an active white nationalist on campus, despite repeated warnings, local media reported Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the university said in a statement Tuesday that the school is aware of the student, Daniel J. Kleve, a junior at the school. Kleave calls himself “the most active white nationalist in the Nebraska area,” and the university said school officials are taking the matter “very seriously,” though they have not taken action against him.

Students told the Lincoln Journal-Star that the university has largely ignored their concerns about Kleve, who was the subject of a video that circulated at the school Monday. The video, made by Anti-Fascist Action Nebraska, reportedly documents Kleve gathering with other white supremacists and Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia last year. One woman, Heather Heyer, was killed at the event by a man who drove his car into the group of counter-protesters with whom Heyer had gathered.

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“Just because I dress like a normie, a regular person, doesn’t mean I don’t love violence,” he says. “Trust me, I want to be violent. Trust me. Really violent.”

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/unl-white-nationalist-student-62ecbb2fcbb8/

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Nebraska students say university is ignoring warnings about an active white nationalist on campus (Original Post) demmiblue Feb 2018 OP
Sounds more like a sociopath that needs to be watched. nt Ilsa Feb 2018 #1
can't stop speech Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #2
Do more than vote ck4829 Feb 2018 #6
Where are these nazi groups getting their funding? not fooled Feb 2018 #3
Mercers more than Kochs rpannier Feb 2018 #4
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.... cntrfthrs Feb 2018 #5
So he was one of the preppie fascists. What a freak. Nitram Feb 2018 #7
What has he done besides having ugly opinions? alarimer Feb 2018 #8
He's mentioned at a link naming deep deviants: Judi Lynn Feb 2018 #9

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,408 posts)
2. can't stop speech
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 08:45 PM
Feb 2018

So far there doesn't appear to be anything the University or law can do. Kleve talks, but the answer to objectionable speech is more speech.


On Wednesday, some students have decided to hold a rally, hoping to shed light on Kleve’s racism and how he and others spread it through YouTube and social media.


That's the way to handle his kind until they actually break a law.



Unfortunately, Kleve isn’t an alone as far as avowed white supremacists on college campuses go. According to a new ADL study released last week, white supremacist groups are increasingly targeting college campuses in the wake of President Trump’s election. The ADL tracked a three-fold increase in propaganda efforts by white supremacist groups on campuses since January 2016.


Express your views -- VOTE!
You could be the voter to save us all. Or, by being too busy, the voter that might have.

ck4829

(35,085 posts)
6. Do more than vote
Wed Feb 7, 2018, 08:30 AM
Feb 2018

Remember that the votes of 65 million were deemed not as important as the opinions of the Electoral Clown College who have the blood of Heather Heyer and other people on their hands.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
3. Where are these nazi groups getting their funding?
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 09:54 PM
Feb 2018

kook brothers, through back channels? Other crackpot billionaires? Are the loony mercers chipping in to support their pet cause of racism? Someone's paying to go after college students. And we all know the radical billionaires who have taken over the puke party are avowed haters of enlightenment-style academia.

So, are they uniting their hatred of "liberal" professors with their love of divisive extremists by funding these groups that go on campuses?



rpannier

(24,336 posts)
4. Mercers more than Kochs
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 09:55 PM
Feb 2018

The father is a serious crank -- a genius, but a crank. His daughter isn't much more (or less) likeable.
They fund breitbart

cntrfthrs

(252 posts)
5. sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit....
Wed Feb 7, 2018, 12:59 AM
Feb 2018

“Just because I dress like a normie, a regular person, doesn’t mean I don’t love violence,” he says. “Trust me, I want to be violent. Trust me. Really violent.”

I'm only one state over from this sh*thead...and I'd sure like to run into him....maybe its time for a lil roadtrip to Lincoln....

alarimer

(16,245 posts)
8. What has he done besides having ugly opinions?
Wed Feb 7, 2018, 11:40 AM
Feb 2018

They cannot and should take action unless he's actually violated the code of conduct. Speech, however vile, is usually not enough.

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