The Illinois White Student Union Facebook group was created shortly after at black student solidarity rally on the University of Illinois campus last Wednesday, The Daily Illini reports.

The page, which has more than 5,000 likes to date, is described as "a group for white University of Illinois Students" and "the first white student organization on campus." The group's goal is for all students on campus to be treated equally.

Following the recent protests and tensions concerning racism on campuses across America, the White Student Union allegedly feels "terrorized" by the Black Lives Matters movement and wants to "form a community" against such "terrorism," according to the Illini.

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USA Today reports the page was originally removed after the University's administration contacted Facebook, but this new one popped up in its place soon after. University spokeswoman Robin Kaler told USA Today she continues to work with Facebook to remove the page permanently and that while "passions run deep on all sides of many issues, actions like this are senseless and hurtful, and do nothing to foster meaningful dialogue."

"It does make me pause now when I'm walking between classes that members of the student body at the university think like this," Karen Olowu, one of the students who organized the rally that triggered the White Student Union to form, told USA Today:"I expect some degree of backlash whenever black students … get together and demand their human rights. I was surprised by the degree and the swiftness, and how toxic it was."

The page has become a disgusting breeding ground for racially insensitive comments, offensive memes, and absurd justifications for its existence.

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