GWU is up in arms about some flyers that were posted yesterday all over campus. They are nasty as can be, and purport to be the work of the campus chapter of Young America's Foundation. Community meetings have been held, feelings have been shared, the posters have been torn down, and the administration is vowing to punish whoever is responsible for the hate speech. But looking harder at the details, it's hard to believe that this is just a straightforward case of one campus group hating on another. It looks more like one campus group being framed as haters by way of an absurdly over the top flyer that should be legible as mockery but does not seem to be. My hunch on this front is owing in part to YAF's claim to have had nothing to do with the poster, and to disavow its message; it's also owing to the text of the flyer itself, which looks like someone's caricature of how a conservative group would caricature Muslims.

Check out the poster and the surrounding story here, and see what you think.

UPDATE: What do you know. I was right.