This is America, where what you "identify" as is more important than what you are
True, and *expletive deleted*ing retarded. One day reality will bitchslap many of these folks.
Hopefully you are right, but I have a bad feeling that he will get rolled for not drinking the liberal kool-aid.
If it were a student shouting down a veteran for being a veteran, I doubt there would be any disciplinary action.
I might be wrong. Like I said I don't know anything about the institutional culture of this university. But I've read enough internet outrage at this point in my life I read stories like this with a gimlet eye for what is not said. Like the fact that this university hasn't actually done anything yet, except ask for an accounting of his actions. That is actually reasonable if they had a report of two students cursing in the lunchroom.
Also, while I giggle all over those Stolen Valor videos on Facebook where fat sacks get pwoned in malls, it's worth remembering that Stolen Valor is only, actually, illegal if you claim vet status to get something you would not otherwise be entitled to. That is to say, despite what Red Pill wants to think, simply telling this vet that the liar was a Marine Officer is not, actually, illegal. Douchey, morally bankrupt, and worthy of public humiliation certainly. But not against the law. Which puts the would be Avenging Vet in a tricky situation. To wit: If the vet crosses any legal or policy lines while enacting the so richly deserved humiliation, the Vet, not the liar, is in the wrong. That's worth remembering if you run across someone you think is faking it.
I sympathize with the vet, and I hope I am correct and the school is just doing it's due diligence on a reported altercation. However, my inner CSD makes me ask what, exactly, "I was loud and did swear a couple times" means. This guy may very well have crossed the line into violating university policy in his passion.