But, but it could have happened, ask Rolling Stone Magazine.
Via The College Fix:
Would this qualify as “hate speech”?
Latino, Muslim, black and pro-Palestine student groups at Harvard posted fake “investigations unit” notices in dorms that said a resident had been “detained indefinitely” as a potential “deportable alien,” The Harvard Crimson reports.
They were just advertising a panel discussion on incarceration, but “several students took issue with the controversial method for publicizing the panel”:
Karla V. Alvarado ’19, who noted that she had previously dealt with a similar situation because both of her parents used to be undocumented, described feeling troubled.
“I was upset mostly because I think [the flyers] didn’t take into account the feelings of people who have actually seen deportation notices or experienced the risk of deportation, or have loved ones who are at risk of deportation—their responses were not taken into account,” she said.
Cecilia Nunez ’20 said she agreed.
“As a member of the Latinx and black communities, I was really disturbed by the format of the flyer and how terrifying it was for students of color and undocumented students especially to receive the notice,” Nunez said.
Two of the four groups behind the mock notices – the Palestine and Latino groups – have apologized for causing “trauma and pain” with the mock notices, which is “antithetical” to their mission.