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Re:On Github and Speaking Out by vezzy-fnord on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:31PM (#7419663)
Or perhaps it was simply them trying to brush off an inconvenient situation? That's something many institutions do, it's not just done exclusively when it concerns racial issues. Hell, the fact that it was a racial issue gives them more incentive to keep silence.

As for his friends, they might have simply decided it wasn't worth expending energy on a lowlife punk.

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Re:On Github and Speaking Out by lucisferre on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:53PM (#7419738)
Two white guys (or two non-white guys) getting into a bit of a fight isn't going to make the local newspaper, let alone even the student newspaper. A racially motivated assault (which this most definitely was) just might.

Also consider that racially motivated slurs mostly have their power when used against minorities, rarely the other way around.

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