University: Woman Behind Hitler Valentine Was Not A Student, Left Town

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The woman who created an anti-Semitic Valentine’s card featuring Adolf Hitler that was handed out by Central Michigan University College Republicans earlier this week admitted her role and has left the university’s town, the school said in a statement Friday.

The unnamed “young woman” who created the card was not a student, according to the university, and she is no longer in the town of Mount Pleasant. It is not clear if she was a part of the organization or why she was involved in the College Republicans’ event.

“The grossly offensive action of one individual, a nonstudent, has deeply distressed our campus community and others across the nation,” university president George E. Ross said in the statement. “With heavy hearts and great embarrassment, we apologize. To those of Jewish descent, rest assured that we stand with you and vow to continue the effort to educate others.”

Earlier on Friday, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, called for the expulsion of those responsible for the anti-Semitic Valentine’s card.

The center released a statement on behalf of Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, dean and founder and associate dean, respectively, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which called for the expulsion of the “bigot or bigots” who made the card.

The Central Michigan University College Republicans apologized after they said they unknowingly handed out the card, which read “my love 4 u burns like 6,000 jews” with a photo of Adolf Hitler and was signed “XOXO, Courtney.”

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  1. 6,000 ? Seems she is kinda dumb…

  2. Of course, no one could identify the woman, nor was there any security camera footage found,
    just the mysteriously male moniker, John Barron-Miller.

  3. snif snif Man, did somebody just walk with a bunch of purchases from the fish market?

  4. Right? I mean, come on - these are budding Republicans and the best they could come up with is a nameless, faceless woman who isn’t a student, who has now left town, and nobody - but nobody - knows how or why she was at the event? Did anyone think to ask her what she was dropping into the gift bags? Because that distribution volume didn’t happen in a few minutes…

    Not gonna get far with that kind of slacker attitude!

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