A video has gone viral on the internet where two women can be heard accusing a couple a White men of being ‘White nationalists’ and ‘fascists’ for sitting in a University room supposedly meant for ‘people of colour’. One of the two men also had a sticker on his laptop that said ‘Police Lives Matter’, which appeared to anger the women a great deal.
A woman can be heard saying in the video, “This is our space.” “You are white. Do you know what a multicultural space is? It means you are not being centered,” she says.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1441202362073239553?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwThe woman goes on to add, “This is the violence that ASU (Arizona State University) does and this is the type of people that they protect. This white man thinks he can take up our space and this is why we need a multicultural space. Because they think they can get away with this sh*t.”
An extended 7 minutes 40 seconds recording of the incident is available on Reddit. In the video, a woman says, “You are racist, your sticker is racist.” “You can choose to be a cop, you can choose to kill people with a badge and you are protecting that sh*t, which means you are a racist,” she says.
The women also accuses the white students of making people feel uncomfortable with his sticker. Ultimately, the men decided to get up and leave the scene of confrontation.
The video has sparked sharp reactions on social media, with people overwhelmingly criticising the ‘woke’ women in the video.
https://twitter.com/Logan_sado/status/1441281528936288259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/KarrisHamela/status/1441260158693216258?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwRepublican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for the University to punish the female students.
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1441256719208812548?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwRichard Grenell, acting Director of the US National Intelligence under the Trump administration, also criticised the conduct of the women observed in the video.
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1441255062211162114?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwThe comments on the video are overwhelmingly against the ‘woke’ women who appeared to labour under the impression that they had done something heroic.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1441246496893153282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1441254289100263441?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwWhile the actions of the women have received strong criticism online, the sentiments that spurred them into action is harboured by a great many people in USA. The anti-Police sentiment has gained great momentum following the death of George Floyd last year, which sparked an endless cycle of violence and riots.
The protests led to calls for defunding the Police, which have been unsuccessful thus far. Simultaneously, ‘POC (people of colour) only spaces’ have mushroomed across the country with many Universities reserving spaces for non-White people only.