Lund University trolled

In our day to day life, we listen to new articles about instances of people being insensitive towards each other and communities. And in some cases, hallowed institutions bear the grunt, even when they do not fault of theirs.

One such institution is Sweden’s Lund University, which has been a victim of such trolls in India, due to its weird name. In the country Swedish, ‘Lund’ signifies ‘green area’. But due to Indians excessive trolls, they’ve finally had enough.

ADVERTISEMENT

They took up the constant trolling in a Facebook post, mentioning it was an important task deleting all of the excessive troll mail that they keep on receiving. They receive all of the hateful comments despite being one of the world’s top 100 universities.

Sweden's Lund University
Lund University/Facebook

The post went viral in no time, and lead to a flurry of angry rebukes towards the perpetrators of this pointless trolling. A lot of people slammed them for an educational institution.

Sweden's Lund University
sinhasouradip/Facebook

Sweden's Lund University
Rajarshi Ghosh/Facebook

Hi folks,
Those of you who were creating a content by making fun of the University and by sharing it your friend’s wall…

Posted by Saswata Sarkar on Thursday, 23 July 2020

ADVERTISEMENT

Sweden's Lund University
Bishal Karjee/Facebook

Since the time all this crass happened, university Facebook page has been offline. When such trolling happens it looks fun at the start but then it becomes something serious.

ADVERTISEMENT

An interior designer turned into content writer, Shalini is an experienced Editor and Content Writer with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and advertising industry. Skilled in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Web Content Writing and Editing. Strong media and communication professional with an Interior Designer focused in Designing from Inifd. Experienced Content Writer with a demonstrated history of working in content writing and blogging for 6 years she has the ability to make an impact by writing statements that intensify the tone of a topic. She strive to find a way to weave words unconventionally while serving a meaningful result for the readers.