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U. Maryland prankster’s ‘disgusting’ image on shared document provokes hate/bias report

How dare that … !!!

The University of Maryland Student Government Association’s director of diversity and inclusion (whew!) said she is going to file a “hate/bias” report after an anonymous prankster edited a shared Google document to include a “dickbutt” image.

No, we weren’t certain what the image was either, so we took to a popular search engine (no comment if it was this one, since apparently it’s “racist”) to check it out. According to the St. Louis alternative weekly Riverfront Times, a “dickbutt” is a “penis whose testicles double as a butt, with a second penis protruding from said posterior.”

Yes, it’s completely ridiculous. About as ridiculous as filing a hate/bias report about a silly prank.

According to The Diamondback, the jokester made the edit before the SGA voted on a bill “to create liaisons for religious, racial minority and other protected groups.” Uh oh. It appears that is what ticked off at least some of the student officials …

Speaker pro tempore [sic] Mikaela Davenport called the act “disgusting,” and said if the person who made the change is revealed to be in the SGA, they would be referred to the ethics committee.

Serena Saunders, the legislator who sponsored the measure, said it was a “strange way to attack the bill,” and effectively “defaced” it.

Later, during debate over tabling the bill, Taylor Greene, the body’s diversity and inclusion director, said she planned to file a report on the action with this university’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion for its hate bias log.

“Because it was done anonymously and because of what the bill itself is, and what was done to it, that’s why it was a bias incident,” she said. “The intention behind it was obviously to harm or insult it. … It was very offensive.”

Nineteen hate/bias incidents have been reported at UMD thus far this school year. Last year, UMD played host to two notorious hate/bias hoaxes, the information about which was rather … reluctantly reported.

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Dave has been writing about education, politics, and entertainment for over 20 years, including a stint at the popular media bias site Newsbusters. He is a retired educator with over 25 years of service and is a member of the National Association of Scholars. Dave holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Delaware.