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The cast and crew of University of Washington’s production of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” found eight copies of this neo-Nazi poster plastered to the theater’s front door Wednesday night during their performance. UW police say similar posters have cropped up throughout campus.
The cast and crew of University of Washington’s production of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” found eight copies of this neo-Nazi poster plastered to the theater’s front door Wednesday night during their
The cast and crew of a University of Washington theater production found that someone had plastered eight neo-Nazi recruitment posters to the front door of the theater during the first act of a play Wednesday night, The Stranger reported.
It was the latest in a string of incidents in which pro-Nazi fliers have been posted throughout the campus, UW police say.
Students smelled something like spray paint backstage during the performance of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” at the Glenn Hughes Theatre and discovered the posters covering the front door with spray adhesive, according to The Stranger account.
The poster reads, in part: “Where will you be when the race war begins? When the world burns? Join your local Nazis! Congregating near you!” It appears to be connected to the pro-Nazi Atomwaffen Division, whose website bills it as “the internet’s purity spiraling website.”
“It was terrifying because all the leads are people of color…and a wide [number] of our audience are people of color,” performer and UW graduate student Tamsen Glaser told The Stranger. “We have people playing LGBTQ characters and that’s a huge portion of our audience as well. It didn’t seem arbitrary.”
UW Police Cmdr. Steve Rittereiser told seattlepi.com that posters of that kind have been displayed throughout campus, but that their appearances seem to have increased since Inauguration Day.
They’re “not all that unusual” to see, he said.
They’ve been spotted in Red Square and other areas of campus, as well as on numerous campuses across the country.
On-campus posters are supposed to be approved by a school body, but there’s no real enforcement of the rule, Rittereiser said.
He said police pay attention to posters people find objectionable and that people are welcome to report them to police, but that people are also welcome to simply remove them as they see them.
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