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The campus fascists have been saying this for some time now - the warcry is "it's our turn now." The mistake they make is the presumption that because the drive toward equal political rights on the part of various "oppressed" groups in the recent past resulted in the existing power structure yielding its hegemony, that a further transition to outright oppression on the part of those groups would be similarly easy to attain.

The existence of this hegemony is so much one of their principal core assumptions that it goes without question - this does not allow them to consider the fact that it was at least partly fantasy and partly exaggeration to begin with. This allows them to further fantasize that the "oppressor" groups are going to humbly accept the yoke or be easily forced into it, and that a new round of oppression will somehow make up for past offense, whether real or perceived. It is the application of this theory by a huge majority that explains what is taking place in Zimbabwe at the moment. Where the oppressed groups are not in majority it is a path leading to a great deal of bloodshed.