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Prieto has a history of promoting and celebrating left-wing violence in racial terms

Social media coordinator for UC Berkeley illegal aliens urges “beating … white people”

By Daniel Greenfield -- BombThrowers——--May 8, 2017

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Let’s suppose for a moment that a white student at Berkeley had tweeted a call for beating Mexicans for Cinco de Mayo. We all know what would happen. The full court press would descend. It would end with his life over and Berkeley adding three diversity deans and two buildings named after Pancho Villa. But the other way around is fine. Assuming that the authorities and the media are forced to address it, they will, as in the past, call it youthful high spirits and sarcasm. Because they agree with it. That’s the dirty truth lurking under the surface.
“Let’s celebrate 5 de Mayo by going to Dolores Park and beating the # out of white people, in the spirit of La Batalla de Pueblo,” tweeted [Juan] Prieto. Juan Prieto, an English student at UC Berkeley, made the remark on Twitter two days after receiving Berkeley’s Robert J. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Recognition Award for Service to Undocumented Students. “Let’s celebrate 5 de Mayo by going to Dolores Park and beating the # out of white people, in the spirit of La Batalla de Pueblo,” tweeted Prieto, who later locked his Twitter account. The illegal immigrant student referred to a battle in Mexico in which the Mexican army defeated French occupiers. “It’s Twitter,” said Prieto to The DCNF. “I post dumb # on Twitter all the time. Aha. But I see how this fits into your agenda, and no matter what I say, you’ll write your article so that I continuously get threats for the next two weeks until white supremacist [sic] have another person of color to attempt to silence via virtual bullying.” Prieto is the social media coordinator at UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Program, which provides academic help, legal support, and financial aid info to illegal immigrant students.
Prieto, very predictably, played the victim. Even more predictably Berkeley is ignoring it. And the same media, which ran his self-promoting claims to be living in “fear” will ignore his racism and threats of violence. The New York Times gave him column space. “Even at Berkeley, I Face Threats as an Undocumented Student – New York Times.” Don’t expect it to spend space discussing the threats Prieto poses to white students. And Prieto has a history of promoting and celebrating left-wing violence in racial terms.
On Feb. 7, Berkeley student newspaper The Daily Californian ran a series of opinion pieces in support of “violence as self-defense.” “My campus did nothing to stand between my undocumented community and the hateful hands of radicalized white men,” wrote Juan Prieto, a UC Berkeley student. “A peaceful protest was not going to cancel that event.” “Only the destruction of glass and shooting of fireworks did that,” Prieto wrote. The so-called ‘violence’ against private property that the media seems so concerned with stopped white supremacy from organizing itself against my community.”

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This is real fascism. Or Communism.
He describes himself on Facebook as a “Self-entitled punk who [would] rather leach off of the American system than construct a life for himself” (he adds a Communist hammer and sickle to the end of his bio).
This article originally appeared at FrontPageMag.
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Daniel Greenfield——

Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his articles appears at its Front Page Magazine site.

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