After receiving considerable media attention for a series of racist comments by members of his student body on the public listserv, Pitzer College’s President Melvin Oliver wrote a public message to the community regarding the aftermath of The Claremont Independent‘s publicizing the explicitly racist screeds .
Titled “Hate Speech is Not Free Speech,” Oliver stated that the students who publicly defended a graffitied message telling white people to stop wearing hoop earrings were “experiencing harassment and death threats” and that the subsequent article “ignited a cycle of violent hate speech.” He continued:
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