Loud & Proud

Trigger Warning: Genocide

This is a message I just received in my inbox.

A group called “Genocide Awareness Campagin” is at my university in Massachusetts right now with their giant billboards showing miscarried fetuses and aborted fetuses and the University is refusing to remove them from University grounds. At least 200 people have had to contact crisis centers because of triggering. We have staged a small counter-protest but the pro-lifers have surrounded the area we have set up a banner for people to sign and support reproductive rights, but these people decided to crowd in close around where the banner was and to scream obscene things at people who stopped to sign it and pick up a sticker saying “I Support Reproductive Freedom”, they even tried ripping it down a few times and shoved pamphlets full of graphic images of mostly miscarried fetuses and pushing their “message” of genocide. Mind you; I live in Lowell, which has a large Cambodian population…the largest outside of Cambodia who were rightly offended by these people misusing the word “genocide”. Also, tomorrow is the University’s Holocaust Remembrance Day…and this pro-life group is still going to be there touting their “abortion is genocide” crap on a day when we are supposed to remember a REAL genocide. This is so many kinds of offensive I can’t even describe the whole of it. I was hoping you could work your tumblr magic and get some attention paid to this problem at my University. We need media attention on this to pressure the University to throw these people out and to punish the student body responsible for inviting them because free speech has nothing to do with it anymore…just this evening the protesters were reading the names of people on campus who have had abortions and showing pictures of them to the people there. I’m hoping you will show this to your followers so we can get some support…our counter-protest is lagging now and we’re all getting tired…we still have two more days to go.

Thanks for your time, ladyatheist. The University is University of Massachusetts Lowell.

— mentalpopcorn

Long story short, there is a “pro-life” group on the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s campus triggering people, harassing them, and spreading lies. THIS SHIT HAS GOT TO STOP! If you are in the area, please show the people on campus fighting against this offensive bullshit whatever support you can. Contact the school and let them know you won’t stand for this. Go to the campus and show those “pro-lifers” you will not stand for their hatred, harassment, and ignorance. Pass this post around and spread the word that this type of behavior is not acceptable.