While some media sources reacted in the way the original authors on 4chan had expected, others like TheBlaze described the campaign as trolling, or a prank. She stated through her attorney she took Wintrich's speech as a form of protest, describing Wintrich's "It's OK to be White" speech as hateful language. In December 2017, the charges against Wintrich were dropped, and the woman who took the papers was charged with attempted sixth-degree larceny and disorderly conduct. The speech was protested and came to an end when a protester, employed as the director of career services at Quinebaug Valley Community College, grabbed Wintrich's speech papers from the podium and Wintrich grabbed her, resulting in breach of peace charges against Wintrich. In November 2017, Lucian Wintrich attempted to give a speech titled "It's OK to be White" at the University of Connecticut as an invited speaker of the school's Republican club. A police department spokesperson said "the signs did not constitute a hate crime because they did not target a specific race and because no criminal act was committed". Police were contacted regarding the flyers being posted at the University of California, Berkeley. The University of Utah said: "If, indeed, these tactics are meant to silence our work in diversity and inclusion, please know we shall not be deterred." Concordia College said that their president was planning a meeting where students could discuss the matter. Executive director of Washington State University's Office of Equity and Diversity responded to the posters by saying: "In my mind, it's a nonthreatening statement", further stating: "Sure, it's OK to be white. We want to see them be safe for all of our children, so to see this kind of thing emerge is a worry." Īfter the signs were found at Washington State University, Phil Weiler, Vice President of University Communications, said: "one could reasonably believe the intention of the signs is to set a sense of fear and intimidation on campus". University President Vianne Timmons said: "Simply put, these signs have no place at our university." Ī spokesman for a Waterloo Region District School Board commented: "Our schools are safe spaces. The University of Regina declared the posters divisive. Many of the flyers were torn down, and some accused the posters of being covertly racist and white nationalist, while others, like Jeff Guillory, executive director of Washington State University's Office of Equity and Diversity, argued that it was a nonthreatening statement. Discarded "It's okay to be white" cards after a Patriot Prayer protest in Portland, Oregon
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