Students slam UCLA for downplaying mass shooting threat as former lecturer's racist diatribes surface

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UCLA students are slamming their school for downplaying a mass shooting threat and racist manifesto from a former lecturer. 

"The first 'updates' [UCLA] gave were vague and completely dismissed very serious shooting threats as a 'concerning email,’" one student only identified as Kaitlyn told Newsweek. 

"It makes me and many other students feel unsafe and disrespected to not get any information about such a big threat," she added. 

Matthew Harris was identified Monday night as the former UCLA lecturer and postdoctoral fellow who made threats to the philosophy department and wrote an 800-page manifesto containing racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic remarks. 

Photo of Matthew Harris (Bruinwalk) (bruinwalk.com)

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"The material includes a video entitled ‘UCLA Philosophy Mass Shooting’ and an 800-page manifesto with specific threats towards some members of our department," a UCLA email sent to students this week said, according to the LA Times. The email identified Harris as the former lecturer who sent the threats.

The school canceled in-person classes for Tuesday in response, holding virtual lectures instead. Harris is in custody in Colorado. 

"da war is comin," Harris wrote, according to the LA Times. "forward dis [expletive] to our tha goldhead caucasoid princess."

Harris, who is Black, used the N-word in his manifesto, overt sexual language, antisemitic language and proclaimed "death to my enemies." 

Titles of videos he posted to YouTube include: "MURDER," "my racial angel I'm so glad you exist" and "im a p*dophile, ladies im a p*dophile," Newsweek