Under the username “Kill Feminists,”an anonymous person posted death threats on the internet against feminists at the University of Toronto. The Daily Dot reports that screenshots of the threats, posted on the local site blogTO.com, were taken and immediately reported to police. There are multiple disturbing comments, the first of which reads: “Next week when a feminist at the University of Toronto tries to ruin your life with false sex rape allegations, rent a gun from a gang and start firing bullets into these feminists at your nearest Women’s Studies classroom” (the comments are posted in their entirety on Reddit–read at your own risk).
Toronto police are investigating the matter, but believe there is “no credible threat” at hand. As a precaution, some women and gender studies classes were cancelled on Monday. The University of Toronto Education Workers Women’s Caucus issued the following statement on their website: “Violence that seeks to silence feminist voices cannot and will not succeed in its goals. Though some of us may choose to cancel classes to ensure the safety of our students and colleagues, these ideas will continue to be taught, debated, and theorized by some of the greatest minds at UofT.”
We couldn’t agree more with their statement–anti-feminists can threaten us all they want. We know what we stand for, and that what we stand for is right. And it’ll take a lot more than this to get feminists to back down from what they believe in.