Holocaust Deniers and White Supremacists Make Oregon Students "Feel" "Unsafe"
The University of Oregon is considering not allowing the Pacifica Forum to meet in the student union. That group, to be fair, hosts all manner of speakers, not just “legitimate historians” who don’t believe the Holocaust happened. And then there’s this.
The young woman, a University of Oregon student who would only give her name as Katie, couldn’t take it anymore. She had to come forward, had to say something. To his face.
“This is not acceptable!” she said more than once to Valdas Anelauskas, tears streaming down her face. “You’re making me feel unsafe.”
She came all the way from the back of the room, the Walnut Room at the UO’s Erb Memorial Union, Friday during the latest Pacifica Forum talk.
She said she had to tell AnelauskaÂs, a Lithuanian native who has described himself as a “white separatist and racialist,” just what she thought of a remark he admits to making during a talk last summer about the late radical feminist and writer, Andrea Dworkin.
Anelauskas had said Dworkin, known for her views that pornography can lead to violence against women, was “too ugly to rape.”
The young woman was joined by several others in Friday’s crowd, most who came to protest the Pacifica Forum, and huddled with her to support her after Anelauskas tried to comfort her by saying, “No, you’re not ugly.”