“Onionposting” Facebook Group Hopes To Bring Actual Change To BC Campus

By Dayanara Analuisa

Onions have been a staple in many household’s kitchens, yet for centuries it was looked down upon as “peasant food.” What better way to acknowledge its importance than a group about onions and harsh noise? That’s exactly what co-founders of the Dead Onion’s Onionposting group, Molly Isanenigma, and Mo Muhammed Muhsin did.

“I became dictator of Brooklyn College when former President-Elect Carlos hired Hamza as his personal oil tycoon,” Muhsin sarcastically stated. “My political party was vague but was under a platform that was pro-onion and pro-harsh noise. So when the Illuminati gave me Molly as my assigned puppet-master/vice dictator she essentially solidified and perfected the cult you know today.”

The Brooklyn College student group is a leftist political organization that promotes the simplicity of noise in society, class solidarity and the food of the proletariat, the onion. 

“Sometimes the onion is a metaphysical thing, but anything can be a metaphysical thing so why not something as universal as an onion. The food considered a staple of the working-class diet since feudal times,” Isanenigma said. 

They are a cult group first and an activist group second according to Muhsin. The idea for creating a group was a concept that Isanenigma had for a while, but it was Muhsin who thought it would be better to bring the discussion about onions and noise to campus. 

“Unlike other groups that claim to be activists, we will actually try to do something to help others instead of wasting our times with signs and complaining at town halls,” Muhsin said. 

An example of harsh noise can be seen in Suicide’s Half Alive album and Muhsin’s satirical video posted on Facebook about taking on the role of President after the chaos of Undergraduate Student Government elections in Spring 2019.

Onion is about giving back to the community and all of the money they raise is strictly for charity. Their upcoming food drive in front of Whitehead on December 10 is for students who don’t have much food at home. Also, at their fundraising table, all profits go to support homeless LGBTQ+ youth. 

Most of the communication within the group occurs online in their private Facebook group page. But, they welcome anyone that wants to join. Dead Onion’s Onionposting group may not be an official club, but they have members all over the map who aren’t necessarily all college students but have the same beliefs. 

“The idea of the onion resonates with a lot of people, and I think you can see that in the onionposting group,” Isanenigma said.