Viral Tweet Accuses PSU Fraternity Member Of Beating Guy Up For Being Gay, Police Find Suspect Isn’t Actually In Fraternity
John Mateer, 19, visited Penn State University over the weekend. During his visit, he encountered a man who claimed to have told John that he hated gay people. John then told the man that he was gay, resulting in a violent beating. John filed a police report and posted a picture of his injuries to Twitter, where he claimed that the deed was done by a “frat guy.”
The tweet went viral.
Don't let a frat guy know that you're gay. pic.twitter.com/meCpEyymik
— John (@itsJohn718) October 4, 2015
The Inside Edition reported that State College police began an investigation into the matter to identify the suspect. Late last night, State College PD was able to identify him, and surprise, it turns out the culprit of this hate crime was, in fact, not a member of a fraternity.
Victim has reported to police the assault first reported yesterday via social media. Suspect identified and is NOT a PSU fraternity member.
— State College Police (@StateCollegePD) October 6, 2015
It’s abhorrent that John was physically attacked for claiming he was gay. However, his tweet was reckless. And unfortunately, the 12,000+ people who retweeted it, and the many, many more who came across it, will not see the follow-up story and will go on believing the claim in the tweet as fact. Something saying “Don’t let a guy who hates gays know that you’re gay” would have been just as effective.
Not every guy in khakis and a polo is a fraternity member, and, believe it or not, not all prejudiced thinking and behavior is confined within fraternity house walls. Crazy, I know..
[via The Inside Edition]
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In obamas new America, fraternities (or WASP males in general) are considered guilty until proven innocent.
11 years ago at 10:32 amTry being black and getting stopped by the police and shot for doing nothing wrong. Try being a woman and dealing with sexism. WASPs are the luckiest people in the country. To try and play the victim card makes you seem stupid.
11 years ago at 10:49 amLiberals like you invented playing the victim card.
11 years ago at 10:54 amI’m starting to wish it was you that got the shit beat out of him instead of the gay kid
11 years ago at 10:55 amYou do realize that more unarmed whites are killed by police every year compared to blacks, right? Not sure what that has to do with this article though….
11 years ago at 11:10 amFratasaurus, you obviously know that because there are far more white individuals in the U.S than black people so the fact you provided is very misleading? You look at rates, and unarmed Black Americans are twice as likely to be killed than unarmed White Americans.
11 years ago at 12:16 pmI do know that, but it matches crime rates so I didn’t think it necessary to mention.
11 years ago at 12:33 pmYou weren’t aware that there are more White people than black people in the U.S? Where do you go to school?
11 years ago at 3:19 pmBlacks commit 52% of all homicides in the US. They make up 12% of the population. You do the math.
11 years ago at 6:41 pmDon’t know how the homocide rate for blacks relates to the higher rate of unarmed black men being killed by the police… These are not black men with guns or deadly weapons.
11 years ago at 8:32 pmYou said that blacks are twice as likely to be shot by police, yet they commit many times more crime. When I pointed that out, you somehow gathered that I wasn’t aware of how many white people there are compared to black? Blacks are 7x more likely to commit murder than whites. Being twice as likely to be shot by police is, in comparison, pretty good.
11 years ago at 9:48 pmWe get it, no one here is going to hold the fact you’re cuckoo for choco puffs against you. But please, do tell about the time you were shot solely for being black.
11 years ago at 1:17 pmTry being white and listen to this utter bullshit
11 years ago at 9:06 amAll lives matter unless you are white and upper middle class college students because we are the problem with this country #fratlivesmatter
11 years ago at 10:34 amOh please. White wealthy men are the ONLY group in this country who have been historically protected by all institutions in America. Can you get in a time machine and go to ANY period in history in which it would suck to be a white guy? White men run literally EVERYTHING in this country. You sound ridiculous.
11 years ago at 10:44 amYou won’t last long here.
11 years ago at 10:45 amSaying literally makes your argument invalid. Motion to ball this hippie
11 years ago at 10:45 amSecond
11 years ago at 10:46 amSo Moved.
11 years ago at 2:01 pmIt has been moved and seconded to blackball coreyale from posting on the TFM website. All in favor?
11 years ago at 2:02 pmvia GIPHY
11 years ago at 1:22 pmShut the fuck up. The god damn president is black you fucking moron.
11 years ago at 10:45 amYes and the 43 before him were all white men. He doesn’t have a congress that works with him. And he also gets called racial slurs and is discriminated against on the constant basis.
11 years ago at 10:48 amPledge again
11 years ago at 10:50 amIt’s not even worth arguing with you because it’s so obvious that in today’s world that being an upper class straight white male is offensive in itself to everyone else. So I’ll just tell you to go play in traffic instead.
11 years ago at 10:51 amYou’re not offensive. You’re just lucky. Do you get called the N-word, followed around in stores, made to feel inferior because of your race? Have you ever been afraid to kiss who you love in public because of ridicule and violence? Have you been ever had to go without food or electricity in your home? Many people DO. So just count yourself lucky and don’t attack others in a worse position than you. Show empathy.
11 years ago at 10:54 amShut the fuck up you clown. Nobody gives a shit about you. Take your liberal agenda somewhere else where people actually like you. Say, a Hilary Clinton or Bernie Sanders rally, where you belong.
11 years ago at 11:40 amI fucked your girlfriend
11 years ago at 12:02 pmCongress wasn’t elected to work with him you asshat. That’s a great nuance in our government implemented by the founders – “checks and balances”. One branch wants/gets too much power, and another branch says fuck off.
11 years ago at 10:54 amWe don’t hate Obama because he’s black, we don’t like him because we don’t support his policies. Have we fallen so far that we cannot disagree with a minority without it being labeled racist?
11 years ago at 10:56 amUnfortunately since 2008 every republican that has disagreed with him has been called racist because liberals can’t comprehend there might be ideological and positional differences
11 years ago at 11:14 amAnd also because democrat’s positions have no logical reasoning behind them so they pull out the race card.
11 years ago at 11:17 amThe congress isn’t elected to work with the president, the congress is elected by their districts to represent the district at the federal level. That the congress is a republican majority shows that the majority of Americans do not wish to work with the president.
11 years ago at 12:20 pmYou are too stupid to insult.
11 years ago at 8:57 amYou’re damn right we run shit
11 years ago at 10:52 amOnly because you oppress people from being able to do the same. You honestly think Obama was the only black men ever smart enough to be President? If there was no racism, representation would be equal across all lines. You look at who goes to prison and who’s in congress and tell me there’s no more racism.
11 years ago at 11:19 amYou’re gonna set a lap record, corey. The idea of self-accountability is completely lost on you. Yeah, not everyone starts the race in the pole position and when you start in the back, yeah, it’s gonna be a tough road to climb to at least the middle of the pack, but starting in the back with no motivation to win and bitching about the pole-sitter the entire time isn’t a good excuse to get knocked up at 16, single and broke.
11 years ago at 2:28 pmLook, you one-sided jerkoff. Once any race has had multiple succeful persons in multiple fields (multiple athletes, celebrities, a president, two of the smartest men alive Neil DeGrasse Tyson and presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson), disenfranchisement is no longer a viable argument. If anyone/anything is holding the black community down, it’s the “get rich or die trying”, Straight Outta Compton culture of mentality they’ve bred by their continued support and praise of it. If you think that’ll get you anywhere except a pine box, you are fucking delusional and need to clear the bong water out from between your ears.
11 years ago at 5:51 pmWhile I respect Tyson for his credentials (not so much his very liberal positions)…. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a magic negro. His only accomplishment is having a PhD while being black, while there are of thousands of other, more accomplished physicists out there that aren’t recognized for their contributions. For example, only 12 out of 3,302 physicists in US federal labs are black. I read somewhere a long time ago (from a reputable source, too, I wish I could remember) that out of about good number of scientists that they could have to put on a TV program that they chose the only two black ones.
11 years ago at 6:47 pmMy heritage is Irish you cumstain, if I got into a time machine and went back in time my ancestry would get my persecuted, possibly starved, disallowed from applying for work, beatings, enslaved, etc. So read up on your history before you spout off ignorance.
11 years ago at 10:55 amOh yes, because the Irish have it SO ROUGH. Irish people have hate crimes against them today and can’t find a job. Please.
11 years ago at 11:17 amThey did back in the 1600’s through 1800’s but you don’t see them complaining about how much they’re owed and how hard they had it. Every group of people has been discriminated against. Asians were treated as bad as blacks were when they arrived in this country yet they’re the most successful group of people living in America. No, every group has risen above discrimination except for blacks, which prefer to meddle in their own excrement and remain at the bottom even though they have had every advantage handed to them by the government since the 1860s. (You could say that’s not true because of Jim Crow, but even in areas without it they still absolutely failed)
11 years ago at 11:21 amAre you kidding me? Jim Crow was for 90 years and then we had racist housing policy (redlining) for 35 years. And the only Asians that are successful are the east asians and Indians. Vietnamese and Philipinos have high crime and poverty rates. Racism against blacks is a system that has been in effect before America was even a country. The average black family is worth 16x less than a white one. And what are these advantages you are claiming? Affirmative Action? Affirmative Action helps wealthy minorities and white women the most. It’s not the poor black kids in Detroit and Cleveland that are getting the help. This country has done EVERYTHING in its power to destroy and keep blacks second class. Even when they tried to be successful on their own (Black Wall Street) it was burned to the ground by jealous whites.
11 years ago at 11:29 amIt seems like you and Steve Holt have a lot to talk about while playing on a highway.
11 years ago at 11:49 amName one successful all black city or area anywhere in the world
11 years ago at 12:32 pmcascade heights in atlanta. while not fully black, it has produced/housed many successful blacks (shirley franklin, hank aaron…etc) worth a wiki.
11 years ago at 1:02 pmThere are a few affluent black neighborhoods (especially around the DC and Atlanta area), but that doesn’t really answer the question
11 years ago at 6:36 pmThose neighborhoods are based around influential white cities.
11 years ago at 6:00 amIs the Department of Justice cooking their books when they report 50% of the murders in this country are committed by blacks, despite being only 13% of the population? Also, 99% of interracial rapes are black on white, look it up.
11 years ago at 12:41 pmThe only thing we see eye to eye on is the fact that affirmative action is bad and doesn’t even help the people it’s supposed to.
11 years ago at 10:59 pmYour historical revisionism and blanket statements are a joke
11 years ago at 9:00 amYou PC, bro?
11 years ago at 10:59 amExcept for the president and most power person in the country, who is black.
11 years ago at 11:34 amJust shut your dick holster guy.
11 years ago at 11:45 amYou make Steve Holt look like Ronald Fucking Reagan (RIP)
11 years ago at 11:48 amI really wish TFM had some type of forum this debate could take place on instead of the comment section
11 years ago at 1:38 pmTwo most powerful people in the USA right now are a black man (Obama) and a woman (Janet Yellen, who based on your mainstream liberal views you probably have no idea who she is).
11 years ago at 12:32 pmI enjoyed that Louis CK special too.
11 years ago at 12:37 pmLouis CK called and he wants his jokes back. Lace ’em up geed.
11 years ago at 1:01 pmJust delete your account. For all of us man just go.
11 years ago at 1:08 pmTbf white people have done a lot of really dope shit like invent civilization, capitalism, functioning democracy, civil rights, etc.
11 years ago at 1:43 pmOh hello KAPsiGuy. Once again, fuck off
11 years ago at 1:47 pmYou’re barking up the wrong tree here
11 years ago at 2:30 pmSo does that justify the extreme discrimination white guys face in 21st century society. Everything from Salem Witch hunts (UVA) to Job and admission discrimination (affirmative action) To the general anomosity white males face.
Look at every commercial ex:home alarm commercials always to weird looking white guys breaking (even though statistics say other wise) and Car fax commercials always a sleezy white guy salesman trying to rip off the a minority couple or woman. To PC warriors getting offended by a white guy’s shirt (satellite on a comment incident) But not saying a word about all the mistreatment in women in other non-White cultures) Whites gotta stop apologizing for being who we are and start demanding society stop discriminating.
After all very recently a Turkish “Diversity Officer” in England the whitest country banned “cis gendered white males” from attending her diversity events and used the twitter hashtag kill all white men. Mean while she is Turkish and her people literally genocided millions. But it seems only white Christian males are the evil ones who victimize everyone else.
How does your asshole feel?
11 years ago at 3:45 pmYou aren’t intelligent enough to know you’re wrong.According to your various comments its not ok to discriminate or treat anyone different because of who they are.
Well you are attempting to justify that very thing because White men seem to deserve it. Instead of standing up for justice and denouncing this atrocious attack on the greeks at PSU, you’re saying its ok. You are ignorant trash.
11 years ago at 7:50 pmBeing white and “literally” running this country. TFM
11 years ago at 12:21 pm#fratlivesmatter
11 years ago at 10:35 amThis made me furious, everyone show him some “love” on his Twitter
11 years ago at 10:36 amI’m not surprised. A lot of people in this world are generally discriminatory and hateful.
11 years ago at 10:42 amOh the irony…
11 years ago at 11:13 amYes sir, they organize the Congressional Black Caucus and deny Tim Scott entry even though he is black.
11 years ago at 12:35 pmTypical stereotyping…think of a society where people had facts before spewing bullshit.
11 years ago at 10:42 amI find it funny how liberals preach “tolerance” when they are the most intolerant and quick to judge people in this country. In other words liberals are ruining America.
11 years ago at 10:44 amIt was the liberals who ended slavery and gave women the right to vote. If it were up to people like you, blacks would still be attending separate schools and drinking out of different water fountains.
11 years ago at 11:00 amRepublican Party ended slavery and passed civil rights legislation
11 years ago at 11:02 amThe Republicans used to be liberal. The democrats were the conservative racists and then the party ideologies switched.
11 years ago at 11:20 amI want you to do me a favor. Go open up your AMH 2010/2020 textbook, read 1850’s politics, I mean only if you know how to. Learn some damn sense, and please don’t ever come back
11 years ago at 11:32 amWhat part of what he said was false? Lincoln was a Republican and Democrats filled the South in 1860 and were pro slavery. It wasn’t until around 1936 when Roosevelt implemented the New Deal when we see Democrats (on the national stage) as we know them now.
11 years ago at 12:12 pmAnd the New Deal laid the ground work for unchecked government spending. Fuck democrats past, present, and future.
11 years ago at 12:33 pmStill doesn’t make P.G.T Beauregard any less wrong.
11 years ago at 3:16 pmActually, the democrats/republican geographic position didn’t really switch until the the 1960’s as part of the Southern Strategy. The change was in part in response to Civil Rights legislation, but now Republicans believe in self-responsibility and an equal chance for all and that is somehow considered racist.
11 years ago at 6:51 pmNever said anything about geography, just ideology. Also, no one said the Republican platform is racist, it isn’t. However, I have encountered more racist Republicans than I have democrats. It’s correlation not causation.
11 years ago at 7:57 pmOne of my best friends in the world is black and just so happens to be a conservative who hates people like you. So you should kindly fuck off.
11 years ago at 11:02 amActually, it was the Quakers and other “intolerant and bigoted” Christian groups who were most certainly not liberal
11 years ago at 11:22 amIt’s always funny when Dems try to say republicans used to be liberal and their policies all of a sudden flipped.
In my opinion Dems are racist. Affirmative action says that being a minority or a woman means you’re not good enough to compete with white men so we’ll lower the standards for you to get into colleges, get jobs, etc.
11 years ago at 11:29 amIt’s funny that whenever a black person such as Ben Carson or Clarence Thomas is successful they call them a traitor to their race and an Uncle Tom while those “racist republicans” support them
11 years ago at 1:08 pmIt’s only cool to hate minorities if they are conservative.
11 years ago at 1:12 pmI’ll never forget that episode of First Take where RG3 was lambasted for having a white wife, a father in the military, and being a registered republican. It was despicable.
11 years ago at 2:29 pmI went to a public high school (NF, I know) and those type of people were lambasted by the “real blacks”. It was sickening. Meanwhile some liberal thinks I’m a racist because I recognize a thug or willing to point out major flaws in black communities while actually praising someone like Ben Carson on his accomplishments rather than his skin color.
11 years ago at 6:39 pmThe president of my fraternity (and my best friend), is gay. It sucks what happened to the kid, but fuck him.
11 years ago at 10:50 amWhy do white guys play the victim card? White men rule the entire world! White men don’t get stereotyped and judged for the actions of other white men and are featured prominently in the media. You all need to recognize that your ignoring issues of marginalized communities is fueling the issue instead of alleviating it. Do you honestly think you’re in a worse position than the average black male? or female? You are VERY lucky and need to recognize your advantages.
11 years ago at 10:52 amCan we blackball this libtard already?
11 years ago at 10:53 amI wish my taxes didn’t go to your welfare checks.
11 years ago at 11:00 amI’m actually white. But most of my black friends are NOT on welfare and come from upper middle class backgrounds. Many blacks are poor because this country’s long history of discrimination and racism. Learn American history.
11 years ago at 11:02 amMany blacks are poor because they think they’re owed something by someone for what their ancestors had to go through. So rather than work hard and keep their nose clean they commit crimes.
11 years ago at 12:02 pmWhen did I ever mention race you dumb fuck? I simply figured based on your level of stupidity you couldn’t hold a job that places you above the poverty line. Or maybe you have a job in the Obama administration. Either way, kindly go fill up a sink and drown yourself in it.
11 years ago at 12:19 pmSo your not even black but your gonna sit there and type as if you are? As if you actually know what it is like to go through the this shit? Fuck you I am black and I have no problem with al any of these things said on here today my only problem with any of these things is that you had the mind set to act as if you have been “through the struggle” when in all reality you are probably the kid who growing up sucked on your moms titty till you were 13 and was a member at some country club acting as if life was hard for you because your dad got you the wrong golf balls (Pro V1 or don’t play at all) we as a black culture have put us back so far because he still do try to use the race card the best way for us to get past the whole race thing is for us to stop pulling the race card and be responsible for our actions it’s the only way we as a culture can move forward. #CheckYourPrivliageBro
11 years ago at 1:19 pmI’m a minority but people like you are just crybabies accomplishing nothing.
11 years ago at 11:03 amWhy do we need to recognize our advantages? We just live our lives with privilege and success because our generations before worked hard to set us up this way. All you liberal fuckwits do is stereotype us, falsely accuse us of anything from prejudice to heinous crimes, and try to take our American, freedom-full way of life away. Look at Phi Kappa Psi at UVA for example. And you do all this out of hate and spite while we just try to live AND do our part to serve our communities. Instead of turning Americans against other perfectly upstanding Americans, you could actually work to achieve something so you or your lineage can enjoy the same bouts of success in the future. But you won’t because you’re a pathetic piece of trash.
TL;DR stop bitching about our privilege and go work to make your own.
11 years ago at 12:59 pm