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According to a report on Insidehighered Pace University in New York is seeing bias, predjudice, racially motivated actions and other such actions suddenly surface,

Someone took a library copy of the Muslim holy book and threw it in the toilet.

Someone else scrawled a derogatory term for African Americans on the windshield of a car.

Yet someone else wrote the same word and a swastika on a bathroom stall door.

Acts such as these are inexcusable. Students should be able to go school in safety and acceptance. But, it just doesn't happen that way.

The world is not very accepting once a student is out of college either.

Other religious holy books have been defaced and even poked fun at (poor taste all around) but this does not give the offender the right to resort to violence in response.

Individuals of the same race often use slurs when referring to one another but get offended when someone else uses the term.

Anything found on a bathroom stall door belongs there and no where else. Why would anyone take anything in such a location serious?

When I was a kid, I was poked fun at, made the butt of many jokes, called names... We learned a little ditty - "sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

The offenders are stupid...any argument there? However, the offended could do well to have a little bit thicker skin, ignore the perpetrators and get on with life.

What do you think?