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'I love hate speech': Yale graduate student who called cops on a black woman napping in a common room claims racism is 'silly' and that some slaves didn't want to be freed in radical blog posts

Yale University grad student Sarah Braasch, 43, called the cops on black classmate Lolade Siyonbola for sleeping in a common room on Tuesday

A recording of the incident went viral as Braasch was accused of racial profiling

Several blog posts written by Braasch, a lawyer, have since been uncovered

In the posts she shares many radical opinions on race, religion and human rights, including calling racism 'silly' and saying she 'loves hate speech'

Blog posts written by the white Yale University grad student who called the cops on a black classmate for napping in the common room of her dorm have revealed her alarmingly radical opinions on race, religion and human rights.

In articles dating back almost a decade Sarah Braasch expressed strong opposition to laws against hate crimes and called racism a 'silly' social construct.

Earlier this week Braasch called the police and reported a black student for sleeping on a couch in the Hall of Graduate Studies.

The student, Lolade Siyonbola, recorded her interactions with Braasch and the officers in a video that has now gone viral sparking outrage and allegations of racial profiling.

The incident on Tuesday wasn't the first time Braasch had reported a student of color to the authorities, and her online presence is chock full of controversial perspectives on race, religion and human rights.

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Braasch is a 43-year-old grad student set to complete a PhD in philosophy in 2020.

Her bio on the Yale website reads: 'Her secularism and women's rights advocacy led her to obtain an MA in Philosophy, to address the sub-human legal status of the world's women at the source, the philosophical foundations of law.'

She already has two engineering degrees from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from Fordham University.

The lawyer calls herself a staunch First Amendment advocate.

In the wake of the viral video this week several controversial blog posts by Braasch have been uncovered.

In one piece for Daylight Atheism in 2011 she wrote about why burqas should be banned and called seeing a woman sporting a niqab 'barbarism', 'brazen' and a 'great shame'.

'We can no more tolerate gender segregation in the public space, above and beyond the simple fact that we can neither protect nor prosecute those whom we cannot identify,' she wrote.

When online commenters likened her remarks to a hate crime against Muslim she used the First Amendment as a defense.

'Since I hate to mince words, let me just say: Hate crimes legislation is stupid. Seriously stupid. Abominably stupid. I hate hate crimes legislation. But, I love hate speech,' she wrote.

'Hate crimes legislation has a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of association. This is why hate crimes legislation is in direct contravention of the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

'Under hate crimes legislation, anyone who has ever said anything, which might be deemed hateful, directed at one of the groups protected under the legislation opens themselves up to hate crime prosecution in perpetuity.'

After the video of Braasch confronting Siyonbola went viral, 'Daylight Atheist' posted a lengthy response denouncing Braasch's actions.

However, the site opted to leave her posts online saying the opinions she shared in them are not 'completely outside the bounds of discussion.'

Another site that Braasch had been featured on, The Humanist, did take down two of her posts in the wake of the viral video, but not before they had already spread to other outlets.

In one article from 2009 she wrote: 'The thing I like the most about genealogy is that once you go back a handful of generations you realize that social constructs like racism and tribalism seem downright silly.'

She also touched on the topic of the burqa ban, equating women who wear burqas to 'slaves in abusive misogynistic or otherwise patriarchal religious traditions'.

In another post she likened growing up as a Jehovah's Witness to slavery as well.

'I was a slave who extolled the virtues of being a slave. I was a salve who insisted that I had chosen slavery of my own free will, of my own free volition, as a conscious and educated choice,' she wrote.

'Because, you see, I was a Jehovah's Witness who had been brainwashed from birth to believe that God had created me subhuman - below man.

'The debate of our time is again about slavery. But this time it's about abolishing the slavery of women, usually in the context of religion.

'I have been dumbstruck and dismayed by the length to which even my ostensibly freethinking peers will go in defense of a woman's "choice" to be a slave, especially with respect to the free exercise of religion.'

In one from 2010, Braasch wrote about a slavery debate she had in a middle school class.

'I was placed on the pro-slavery side of the argument. I remember spending many an hour in the local public library poring over Time Life books,' she wrote.

'And then I had a eureka moment. Some - not many, but some - of the slaves didn't want to stop being slaves. A small number wanted to remain with their owners or even return after being freed. I knew I had just won the debate. And indeed, I did. I led our team to victory.'

She added: 'Who are we to tell someone that she has to be free? Who are we to tell someone that she has to be regarded as fully human?'

A note at the top of The Humanist's website says: 'The Humanist magazine published two articles from Sarah Braasch as an outside contributor (not a staff member or regular blogger). We regret that this material remained up as long as it did and appreciate those who brought its offensive content to our attention.'

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Yale student who called cops on napping black peer 'loves hate speech'

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Yale University grad student Sarah Braasch, 43, called the cops on black classmate Lolade Siyonbola for sleeping in a common room on Tuesday A recording of the incident went viral as Braasch was accused of racial profiling Several blog posts written by Braasch, a lawyer, have since been uncovered In

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An apparent competition over who can threaten to call the police on people of color for no good reason is really ramping up.

In a video posted to Instagram on Saturday, a white woman in San Francisco was captured apparently calling the police on a nonwhite girl who's 8 years old. The child's supposed crime? Selling water "illegally."

But the woman, Alison Ettel, who spoke to HuffPost later in the day, said that "this has no racial component to it" and claims she only "pretended" to call the police.

"This woman don't want a little girl to sell some water, she's calling the police on an 8-year-old girl," the child's mother, who took the video, is heard saying.

Ettel is seen on the phone, then ducks down out of sight after seeing she is being recorded. Ettel later told HuffPost she ducked to "find a quiet place where I could hear" the building security guard she said she was speaking to.

"Don't hide, the whole world gonna see you, boo," the woman filming says.

"Yeah, and um, illegally selling water without a permit?" Ettel says into the phone.

"On my property," the mother responds.

"It's not your property," Ettel says.

The woman who shot the video, whose Instagram handle is ladyesowavy, did not respond to multiple messages seeking comment.

Ettel told HuffPost that the incident, which has left her feeling "horrible and heart-wrenched," began because the girl's mother was "screaming." She asked the building's security to intervene, but said they could do nothing.

"They were screaming about what they were selling," she said. "It was literally nonstop. It was every two seconds, 'Come and buy my water.' It was continuous and it wasn't a soft voice, it was screaming."

Ettel said she had the windows of her office open. When asked why she did not close the windows, she said because it was too hot and closing them would not have stopped the noise.

After confronting the girl and her mother, Ettel said she was only bluffing when she said she was going to call the cops. The San Francisco Police Department did not respond to a message from HuffPost.

"I had been putting up with this for hours, and I just snapped," Ettel said.

She vehemently denies the issue had to do with race.

"I have no problem with enterprising young women. I want to support that little girl. It was all the mother and just about being quiet," she said.

The incident bears a striking similarity to one in April in which a white woman in Oakland called the police on a black family for attempting to set up a grill in a park. As the video went viral, the woman was given the nickname "BBQ Becky."

In this most recent case, Twitter users have taken to calling the new party crasher " Permit Patty."

Ettel said she is now getting threats online and feels "discriminated against."

"It was stupid," she said. "I completely regret that I handled that so poorly. It was completely stress-related, and I should have never confronted her. That was a mistake, a complete mistake. Please don't make me sound horrible."
This story has been updated throughout with comments from Ettel.

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An apparent competition over who can threaten to call the police on people of color for no good reason is really ramping up. In a video posted to Instagram on Saturday, a white woman in San Francisco was captured apparently calling the police on a nonwhite girl who's 8 years old.

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You are a target...you have to tread lightly, but work harder, try  harder, and cry harder. you will be on the outside looking in, but hold your head up!  you can make it! You can do it! You will succeed, you must succeed!  I'm sorry that you must taste racism and hatred...but you can and must overcome...hopefully you will not have to have this talk with your children.

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You are a target...you have to tread lightly, but work harder, try  harder, and cry harder. you will be on the outside looking in, but hold your head up!  you can make it! You can do it! You will succeed, you must succeed!  I'm sorry that you must taste racism and hatred...but you can and must overcome...hopefully you will not have to have this talk with your children.

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"Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome." - Rosa Parks

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"Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome." - Rosa Parks

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By Countee Cullen

Once riding in old Baltimore,

Heart-filled, head-filled with glee.

I saw a Baltimorean

Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small,

And he was no whit bigger,

And so I smiled, but he poked out

His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.”

I saw the whole of Baltimore

From May until December;

Of all the things that happened there

That’s all that I remember.