A group of black and LGBTQ+ students from the University of Edinburgh were virtually attacked when their Zoom meeting was hijacked by people who shouted racist and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs.
Around 50 students attended an online event called ‘Pro Black and Anti-Gay?’, which was organised to coincide with Caribbean Week and LGBTQ+ history month.
The event, hosted by the university’s African and Caribbean Society alongside Edinburgh Global, aimed to promote solidarity between black and LGBTQ+ communities.However, the password for the meeting was not protected, and the event was hijacked by those shouting hate speech, as well displaying slurs and pornography to those in the meeting.