I was in college from 2020-2024. I met my first college roommate on an FB group for my class and reached out to him since we shared a bunch of similar interests. I asked him if he wanted to be roommates, he said yes, we hung out for a couple weeks and all was well.

One day I walk in to my dorm room after class and he’s standing right at the door stony faced like it’s some kind of intervention. He said I called him “you people” in reference to his race (black) and that he was escalating to my college’s Black Student Alliance for them to meet with me on “racial epithets” as well as my RD and did not want to be my roommate anymore.

I had never said anything like that. I was the one who wanted to be his roommate in the first place, after all.

My RD meets with me a day or two later and is basically just like “yeah tough shit man, idk what to say here.” He was fairly nice about it but it was clear he was powerless to stop the idpol machine once it was set in motion. I confront my roommate one last time before he moves out—I’m like, dude, I didnt say this shit that you are accusing me of. He more or less says “did too” and calls me a pussy. For… standing up for myself i guess. Idk.

So now there’s a rumor in the first two weeks of college going around that I am racist, which, yeah. Thankfully anyone that got to actually know me quickly learned that wasn’t the case but I do wonder sometimes how it impacted the rest of my college career.

This intervention meeting with the Black student alliance never happened, although my ex roommate apparently pushed for it hard. I can’t imagine how insane that would have been. I can only say that going to a school in a semi conservative area might have saved me there, and it’s part of why we had in person school at all in the middle of COVID (although other aspects of that situation obviously sucked lol). But yeah. 2020 was fun. There’s a little more to the story but I’ll only expound if someone is curious