The person who made all those anonymous threats admits they did it specifically to cause blowback against the pro palestine protestors.
"He believed, wrongly, that the posts would prompt a 'blowback' against what he perceived as anti-Israel media coverage and pro-Hamas sentiment on campus," she wrote.
The worst part for me was realizing the people laughing were just racist and not laughing at how absurd racism is.
Racism is entirely nonsensical. There's no consistent way of determining whiteness, for example. It's silly to think poor people fleeing violence and famine in the global south are actually 5D chess scam artists who somehow draw social security, food stamps, take all the jobs, build mile-long tunnels beneath the border, and forge fake IDs. Why wouldn't they just do that shit from home? The examples are endless of these contradictory world views and my only response to it when I was younger was "Can you believe people actually believed this shit?"
But no. They still believe this shit. It's how they justify stealing and murder. I'm inoculated because I'm only half white. Apparently others were not.