Posted on 11/10/2015 7:21:09 AM PST by shortstop
Everything changed on American college campuses yesterday. A chill wind blew through every president and chancellor’s office.
A reign of terror commenced.
With the announcement that the chancellor and president of the University of Missouri system had been forced out of office, a new national paradigm of collegiate power was established. Its impact on an already tottering system of higher education is uncertain but frightening.
What’s the background: Black students, fueled by the professional protesting at Ferguson, felt slighted. They cited an incident in which the student-body president claimed he was called a racial slur, a swastika was drawn in excrement on the side of a building, and the unsatisfying reaction of the college president when black activists surrounded and detained him and his car during a homecoming parade.
Protesting became constant, a squatters camp was established, and the escalating rhetoric of racial anger grew louder and louder.
And school officials didn’t kiss the angry black ass just the way it wanted to be kissed.
So the president’s neck became the target.
And yesterday it was offered up.
And a lesson was learned.
Namely, that if you shout long enough and angrily enough, you can get anything you want. Further, the precedent is set that college presidents can be toppled for non-specific accusations of racial insensitivity – with racial insensitivity determined by the subjective rantings of a small number of anarchist activists.
The very nature of minority activism in America today is escalating dissatisfaction. No matter what is changed, offered or delivered, there is only a growing demand for more. The grievance is based less in reality and more in greed and bigotry. Blood in the water doesn’t satisfy a shark, it only makes it hungrier.
And the victory yesterday over the University of Missouri system will only inspire in activists today a lust for similar victories on other campuses. The trail has been blazed, and many will now follow it.
The new standard for campus racial activism will include a hammer that hangs constantly over the head of the president. Should a college leader not seem zealous enough in placating the complaints of minority activists, things could go Mizzou.
Every college administrator in America must have realized that yesterday.
As a consequence, minority activists have gained an ever larger role in determining the direction of American higher education. Saying yes buys a college president a season of peace; saying no could cost her her job.
The “progressive†nature of activism requires a constant upping of the ante, a pushing of the bar higher and higher. There is a competition among activists as each situation or person feels the need to outdo and surpass the other. If one marches, they all march.
And yesterday any number of activists on any number of college campuses set their sights on the president’s scalp. That has become the new gold standard of activist power.
In light of that, it should be noted that the basic posture of almost all minority activists on college campuses is discontent. It is hard to find a campus on which some committee does not have some grievance against some policy or percentage. A search of college newspapers and websites shows story after story about minority students complaining of one slight or another. There are a lot of people feeling disrespected.
And they mostly complain that the administration isn’t taking them seriously enough.
Which is what happened at the University of Missouri – and could easily happen at dozens of American colleges.
In a way, the colleges asked for it.
A haven of discontent with society for a generation, with hatred sometimes the unstated theme of a syllabus, it is only natural that colleges should be burned by the spark they flamed and fanned. When you teach people to be angry, you can’t be surprised when they become angry at you.
But somewhere the basic mission of education is jeopardized. When colleges become expounders of a narrow and angry anarchy, when the tail of racial and political activism wags the dog of genuine education, the system collapses and the society is damaged.
We need colleges, we just don’t need them to be like this.
We don’t need groups of shouting activists holding the reins of power.
But yesterday, that is exactly what they were handed.
easily manipulated minions attacking political targets that have no idea how to defend themselves, so they fold.
Obama couldn’t be happier.
Tough shiite.;-)
shouting activists holding the reins of power.
While holding Obama’s Little Black Book above their heads.
This college president was just lucky they didn’t make
him self criticize in front of the whole tribunal while
sitting on a stool wearing a dunce cap with “capitalist
exploiter” written on it.
They won’t go away unless they are MADE to,
they have tasted power and will want more of it.
-—>someone<-—is no longer around. it is up to us.
I am not sure what the difference is between these leftists and Hitler’s Black shirts...or Mao’s Students
Right now it’s only a matter of degree.
They can be stopped now but not once
they get going.
National Transformation = Cultural Revolution.
All hail the power of Obama thought.
Liberals keep caving in to (and embracing) this thuggery and conservative keep buying ammunition. Who has the better grasp of which way the wind is blowing?
That administrator resigned much too easily ... I’m guessing he just said “screw this, I don’t need it” ...
Nothing changed yesterday. We just began to notice that universities are breeding grounds for social unrest, anger, violent protest and revolution.
For years universities have been taking in minorities, giving them special privileges in admission, giving them free tuition, passing them in spite of inability, and blaming their frustration on “White privilege.”
It is nothing more than a neo-communist uprising, just like the “occupy Wall St” movement, and the “hate the 1% movement”.
The college president was guilty for being White. There is no way for him to atone for his sins; they are unforgiveable. He inherited guilt through his DNA. Doesn’t matter if he’s a bleeding-heart liberal.
White means he’s got to go.
I’m glad he got to feel personally the effects of the leftist policies of his university.
Safe prediction: the protests get violent very soon.
This is the final destruction of the opportunity for public post-HS education. With Ferguson and now this, how does Missouri ever recover?
I have yet to hear any evidence of racism?
With Ferguson and now this, how does Missouri ever recover?
The “ Show Me” state general population can’t be proud of what they have become due to the MSM and their propensity to paint all in a racist manner.
That administrator resigned much too easily ... I’m guessing he just said “screw this, I don’t need it†...
Nope. They offered him a pile of cash to “resign” vs. being fired no doubt. Missouri Governor is a POS Dem, btw.
Prediction: Come next year when these very same students will be saying, they will have NO CHOICE in saying: “President-Elect Donald Trump”.
The American version of the “Cultural Revolution” complete with Red Guards.
There is ONE main reason for this: To stop the elections by bringing this type of unrest through out the Country so the race riots will begin....Ferguson; Baltimore; conditions in Chicago; this college mess; and it will continue to grow until the white people have had enough and will strike back....
Obuma will not be happy until ‘in his sick mind’ there is a racial war as there was years ago...his whole reason to live is to see this happen...he's that mentally sick....
He wants to rule this country and become the ‘important Black King of the land’ and he's starting to push his sick plan into action...
The Tyranny of the Minority
#FakeRacialHateCrimesMatter
This is strange. Back in the impeached, accused rapist former president clinton's term, a black guy spread this stuff on a photo of the Virgin Mary and it was considered art. He won an award. Why isn't a swastika made from poop on a wall considered a mural?
Will these leftists ever display a tiny bit of consistency?
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