{"id":257416,"date":"2021-03-19T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T20:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=257416"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T20:45:21","slug":"university-president-tells-students-silence-on-atlanta-shooting-is-choosing-the-side-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-president-tells-students-silence-on-atlanta-shooting-is-choosing-the-side-of-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"University President Tells Students Silence On Atlanta Shooting Is \u2018Choosing The Side Of Evil\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funiversity-president-tells-students-silence-on-atlanta-shooting-is-choosing-the-side-of-evil%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=257416&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2168.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The president at a taxpayer-funded university in Washington sent an email to students telling them that being silent about the murder of six Asian women in Atlanta is \u201cchoosing the side of evil, hatred, racism, and violence.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>David May, the interim president at Eastern Washington University sent an email to the student body after \u201cracist graffiti,\u201d allegedly aimed at a black student athlete, was found on campus. The president took the on-campus incident to simultaneously dub the murder of six Asian women in Atlanta a \u201ccrime of hate.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs I send this to you, university flags are being lowered to half-staff to remember the victims of the anti-Asian murders in Atlanta where six women of Asian descent were senselessly shot in a horrific crime of hate,\u201d May wrote. \u201cThe backdrop to this message is a year of increasing violence against racial and ethnic minorities nationwide.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>May proceeded to claim that what happened in Atlanta was due to the \u201cnormalization\u201d of white supremacy and white nationalism. There is no evidence to support this theory, thus far.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is a backdrop of growing normalization of white supremacy and white nationalism in our national culture,\u201d May wrote. \u201cIt is the backdrop of years and generations of violence against black and brown people in the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The email came after law enforcement announced that a 21-year-old gunman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/man-confesses-to-multiple-spa-shootings-motivated-by-addiction-to-sex\"><span>confessed<\/span><\/a><span> to killing a total of eight people in the metro-Atlanta area, six people of Asian\/Pacific Islander descent, and two white people. The murderer said his motive stemmed from a sexual addiction.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The university president told students that the murderer killed people because they were Asian, not because he was a \u201cself-declared sex addict.\u201d The note fails to address the two white people who were murdered in the same shooting spree.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI want to say this to everyone: Choose a side. There is no middle ground. There is no room for equivocation or justification,\u201d May said. \u201cSix women were not killed yesterday because someone was having a bad day or because he was a self-declared sex addict. They were killed because of who they are, Asian-Americans.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He concluded by saying that, \u201cchoosing silence in this moment is choosing the side of evil, hatred, racism, and violence that this attack represents.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>May\u2019s email is part of a larger cultural push to connect the senseless violence of the Atlanta shooting to white supremacy. The rhetoric connecting white supremacy to an increase in so-called \u201chate crimes\u201d committed against Asian-Americans comes from a study conducted by the Stop AAPI (Asian-American Pacific Islander) Hate Youth Campaign.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The study found that one in four young Asian Americans has experienced \u201canti-Asian hate\u201d amid the coronavirus pandemic. The study specifically links the hate to the moment when former President Donald Trump used the phrase \u201cChinese virus\u201d in a tweet.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAfter March, 10 when the president first used the phrase \u2018Chinese virus\u2019 in a tweet, Stop AAPI Hate saw an exponential increase in reported anti-Asian hate incidents,\u201d the study <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stopaapihate.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Stop-AAPI-Hate-Youth-Campaign-Report-9-17.pdf\"><span>reads<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president at a taxpayer-funded university in Washington sent an email to students telling them that being silent about the murder of six Asian women in Atlanta is \u201cchoosing the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310834,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2168.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"University President Tells Students Silence On Atlanta Shooting Is \u2018Choosing The Side Of Evil\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2168.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"University President Tells Students Silence On Atlanta Shooting Is \u2018Choosing The Side Of Evil\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}