Word: swastikaed
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...weeks ago, Jacinda Townsend '92 hung a swastika outside her window in Cabot House in an outcry over the display of Confederate flags around campus. Her motive, she said, was to provoke the University to ban such forms of hate speech...
...March 4, she took down the swastika--an action that was welcomed, but long overdue. Then, after this apparent turn toward greater sensitivity, she sent a letter to The Crimson expressing unfounded bitterness toward Harvard Hillel and the campus Jewish community...
...letter explaining her reason for taking down the swastika, Townsend charged the Jewish community with unfairly criticizing her and the Black Students Association (BSA). She said Hillel chose "not to see the more important goal" of combating the racism embodied in the display of Confederate flags. She further claimed that "Hillel and other members of the Jewish community...have chosen not to unite with other communities to eliminate the displays of such racist and odious symbols...
Although Townsend said she hung her swastika in defense of racial sensitivity, her deeds and words have offended many members of the Harvard community...
...want to concur with Jacinda Townsend in her two courageous and thoughtful actions: 1) her hanging of the swastika flag as a bold way of forcing immediate attention to the murderous symbolism of a Confederate flag hanging from a Harvard College house; and 2) her withdrawal of the swastika flag and her explanation of that withdrawal--namely, that she meant no injury whatever to our Jewish peers at Harvard or to Jews elsewhere by hanging this murderous symbol of the Holocaust, and that she sought forgiveness for her action from our Jewish peers...