Student Ratted Out for Remembering Unperson Kate Steinle

In liberal academia, no thought crime goes unpunished:

A student at the University of California San Diego has been contacted to report to its Office for the Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination after hanging pro-Kate Steinle posters across the campus.

On the evening of Dec. 7, Gregory Lu hung 150 posters of Steinle’s smiling face with the words “She had dreams too” in highly traversed areas across campus that other students typically hang items on, such as bulletin boards and the free speech area.

Four days later, an investigator with the Office for the Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination [i.e., the Thought Police] emailed Lu asking to meet with him.

Correctly perceiving the meeting as an attempt to intimidate him into no longer expressing nonconformist (i.e., nonleftist) views, Lu wisely consulted a lawyer.

He had been ratted out via an online incident report, after having been followed around as he hung the posters. Unsurprisingly, the posters had disappeared when he checked back the next day.

The same day Lu was contacted by the bias office, the UC San Diego College Democrats had also called the posters “racist propaganda” targeting the “undocumented community” in a statement posted on their Facebook page. It went on to describe the posters as “displays of hate.”

Lu put up the posters on behalf of the newly formed group Right-Wing West, whose members “want to remain unnamed because they are concerned they will be targeted by progressive peers or overzealous administrators.” The group put up the Kate Steinle “She Had Dreams Too” posters at numerous West Coast schools, where they were promptly torn down. At U.C. Berkeley, the pictures of Kate Steinle were ripped up in apparent hatred.

It wasn’t enough that Kate Steinle was murdered by lowlife illegal alien Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, who had already been deported five times. It wasn’t enough that Zarate was running around loose because local authorities had deliberately refused to turn him over to immigration officials. It wasn’t enough that a San Francisco jury outrageously found him guilty only of a firearm possession charge after he had shot her dead in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Now she must be forgotten completely, because her tragic story conflicts with the liberal narrative.

If anyone brings up this unperson, respond by asking, “Kate who?” Otherwise, you too may be suspected of thought crime.

On a tip from J.