Higher Education's Great Triumph [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 1 Nov 2020 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

Those who have ever doubted the value of a good education will be surprised to learn that 65% of today's college students believe that rioting and looting are justified. A poll conducted by Mclaughlin & Associates surveyed a nationally representative sample of 800 college students and found that nearly two-thirds of those responding felt that riots of the sort that have sprung up after black men have been shot by police are warranted "because racism."

The irony and injustice of such beliefs is evidenced by the fact that those most severely harmed by rioting mobs are often black small business owners. While the idea that black lives matter is valid because all lives matter, the protests launched by the Black Lives Matter organization usually take place in black neighborhoods. Riots and looting in these neighborhoods often follow.

Northwestern University journalism professor Steven Thrasher says that "the theft and destruction of a riot is a tactically reasonable response to the crisis of policing, it is a quintessentially American response, and a predictable one. Property destruction for social change is as American as the Boston Tea Party."

The big problem with Thrasher's facile analogy is that the Boston Tea Party was in response to an onerous and oppressive tax on the American people. No one was killed. No stores were looted. No builds burned. The riots that have spouted up across the country this year have been in response to police actions aimed at arresting criminal behavior. The latest riot occurred in Philadelphia after police shot a knife-wielding man named Walter Wallace. As it turns out, Wallace had a 2017 conviction for robbery and assault. He also had a history of mental health issues.

Maybe the police were too hasty in their actions. CNN's Wolf Blitzer wondered "since there were two officers present, why didn't one of them take Wallace on in hand-to-hand combat? I've seen this scene in many movies. The good guy always wins.

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OK this is just me but I see hard times ahead for major Universities.....the shut down has proven students don’t need to attend these commie indoctrination centers....if you can attend on line then you don’t need the professor...you can get the knowledge with programs that have been srubbed of any bias!!!