At least 10 students expecting to enroll at Harvard University in the fall will be looking elsewhere for a college education after the school rescinded their admission offers over offensive memes in Facebook group chat.
In the group, students sent each other memes and other images mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust and the deaths of children,
, Harvard’s student newspaper. Some of the messages joked that abusing children was sexually arousing, while others had punchlines directed at specific ethnic or racial groups. One called the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child “piñata time.”
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The messaging group—titled, at one point, “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens”— formed on Facebook in late December.
Harvard administrators revoked admissions offers to at least ten participants in mid-April after discovering the existence and contents of the chat, according to several members of the group. University officials have previously said that Harvard’s decision to rescind a student’s offer is final.
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