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WCVB: Bridgewater State University is investigating accusations of racism against a student who allegedly sent hateful messages over the dating app Tinder.

“He referred to me as a monkey, like, not even as a human being but as an animal, Elisabeth Phillippe said, speaking with NewsCenter 5.

She said the messages were sent to her after matching with a man, who is a BSU student, on Tinder in early December. After re-reading the message, which used the N-word twice and told her to go back to Africa, the 19-year-old became irate.

“What made you think that of me, just ’cause I’m an African-American?” Phillippe said. “Why did you go out of your way to swipe on me and then send me that message?”

In an email to NewsCenter 5, Bridgewater State University said they’ve initiated both a student conduct and Bridgewater State University Police Department investigation into the racist comments. A university spokesperson, citing federal law, did not say whether the student will be allowed to return to school While the investigation was being conducted.

“Who knows how many other girls, African-American girls, that he sent that to,” Phillippe said. “Imagine how they feel. He shouldn’t be allowed to do that.”

Alright, first of all, the fact that this is news is a joke. “Student says mean thing to other student. Updates to follow.”

This is not news. Don’t get me wrong, it’s shitty and still worth talking about, but college kids being cruel to each other with words should not be news. News is when you meet someone on Tinder and then they try to gouge your eye out with a knife at their Mom’s house in Cohasset. That’s an actual crime with an actual victim. This is just an asshole being an asshole.

However, the fact of the matter is that it does make the news because there is literally nothing worse than being a racist in 2018. You’d be better labeled as a pedophile, and that’s not an exaggeration. Every other personal characteristic an individual can possess is redeemable. Being a racist is for life. You never live it down.

Here’s my question – if this is such a big deal then why is WCVB protecting this kid’s identity? What’s the point of that? They interview the girl’s sister on the news who mentions tweeting about it. All you have to do is go to her Twitter account and you can see the kid’s name. It’s the easiest trail of bread crumbs you can possibly follow.

Racism is alive and well people. Frankie Walsh Jr. sent my sister a sick message on tinder. @BridgeStateU is this the type of people you accept into your school? @WCVB @NBCNews #BlackLivesMatter #racism #sick pic.twitter.com/LqRCGLnXRW

— Myjorie Philippe (@MyjoriePhilippe) December 24, 2018

Frankie Walsh Jr. from Kingston.

He has since deleted all his social media.

Now, I do have some questions about this for a number of reasons. Obviously it’s a real stretch to believe this chick would frame some white kid she doesn’t even know by making a fake Tinder account and sending herself racist messages. She definitely got these from someone who was fucking with her.

But at the same time, I have a very, very hard time believing the real Frankie Walsh Jr. did this. We’re talking about Tinder here. I set up a fake Tinder account with my friend’s picture on it. This guy is a 160 pound greaseball who acts as a virtual plus sized magnet. I swipe right on every single person that comes across the screen, usually when I’ve had a few wobbly pops. Then I forget I did that and periodically throughout the week I get a match. Not one woman who has matched with my fake account ever went to the prom, you can bet on that.

And right on cue people who know Frankie Walsh Jr. are saying that it wasn’t him.

He has told me he was hacked. Which is very possible, people make fake tinder accounts and shit all the time.

— Bridget Phelan (@BridgetPhelan2) December 30, 2018

Hacked is the most overused and wrongly used word on the Internet. If someone makes an account pretending to be you that doesn’t mean you were hacked. It means someone is fucking with you.

My point is that Tinder isn’t any more real than Facebook or Twitter. Anyone can make an account for anyone. And I find it highly more likely that someone, who either knows him or hates him, set up this account, specifically started swiping right on black chicks, and then fucked with them by doing this. If he were this openly racist don’t you think he would be well known as the campus racist by now? Use your brain. If it was him then he would know damn well there would be woke consequences for this. You don’t just wake up one day and decided to be overtly racist. And if you do, you don’t shut down your social media because you stopped giving a fuck a long time ago.

So no, this is not a fake hate crime like the others because the “victim” in this case wasn’t in on it.

At the same time, the reaction to this from the school and on woke Twitter is so 2018 it hurts.

These racist remarks are appalling.

We want you to know that student conduct and police investigations were initiated immediately when BSU was notified and are ongoing.

There is no tolerance for acts of hatred at BSU. Racism is unacceptable — here or anywhere.

This is not BSU.

— Bridgewater State (@BridgeStateU) December 30, 2018

Police??? What the fuck are the police going to do? What crime was committed here? He was mean and racist to her. That’s not a crime. Newsflash – racism is free speech. It’s low brow, shitty, and uncivilized, but it’s protected speech. The best way to fight racism is to publicly shame overtly racist people, or to counter them with superior speech. Racism is indefensible from a logical standpoint, so it’s impossible for a racist to win an argument with someone who comes armed with facts.

This also has nothing to do with Bridgewater State, and thus the school has no real reason to investigate it anyway. But of course the school gets the cops involved because NOTHING is worse than being racist in 2018, and people are demanding to know what BSU is going to do about it.

@BridgeStateU what are you doing about this?

— Goon Squad (@carpenterr33) December 29, 2018

This is horrible! The fact that this is a student at my school absolutely DISGUSTS me!! I’m so sorry this happened to your sister. @BridgeStateU if you can kick someone out for knocking over a statue u can most definitely kick someone out for this

— reese (@reesevandy) December 29, 2018

“The fact that you can kick someone out for knocking over a statue u can most definitely kick them out for this.”

No. No you cannot. Kicking over a statue is a crime. It’s destruction of property. Writing words on a dating app in a non-threatening manner is not a crime.

The bottom line is that, 1) this isn’t news, 2) we don’t know if the kid actually sent it, 3) it’s highly unlikely after examining the facts that he sent it, and 4) if he did send it there’s nothing the school can do because that’s not how freedom of speech works.