Obscene Facebook Posts Prompt Harvard to Rescind Acceptances of at Least 10 Students
The memes and messages were sexually explicit, and some targeted specific racial and ethnic groups.
Students found each other using the Harvard’s class of 2021 Facebook group.
Admissions offers to a least 10 prospective Harvard College students have been revoked by the school after administrators discovered the students traded sexually explicit memes and messages in a private Facebook group chat. Some of the messages targeted minorities.
At least 10 of the prospective members of Harvard’s class of 2021 formed the messaging group, reports the Crimson. At one point the group called itself “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens.”
The memes and images mocked sexual assault, the Holocaust and the deaths of children, according to screenshots obtained by the Crimson. Some memes joked that child abuse was sexually arousing. Other jokes had punchlines targeting ethnic or racial groups.
The chat group split off from a 100-member group created by the class of 2021 that was designed to share mostly lighthearted memes about popular culture. Students found each other using the Harvard’s class of 2021 Facebook group.
When school administrators found out about the group that posted the inappropriate materials, they asked members to disclose every photo that was sent to the controversial group.
Last year, Harvard administrators condemned a group of students from the class of 2020 who exchanged offensive online messages that traded racist jokes and mocked feminists. That group of incoming freshman, however, was not disciplined.
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