Thoughts about student unrest on college campuses:
- Hell hath no fury like a journalist scorned. The student protesters are making a grave mistake by excluding journalists from their gatherings. Journalists are tight, and they are absolutists about their legal right to cover stories. I expect the mainstream media to turn on the student protesters if the latter continue to exclude the former. If the protesters were smart, they would co-opt journalists by welcoming them in.
- Football is money, and money is power. If black football players decide not to play, for whatever reason, it will bring university administrators to their knees. Black football players (and to some extent black basketball players) are starting to realize just how much power they have. It's going to get interesting. Imagine Alabama's or Ohio State's players deciding not to play in the BCS playoff until their demands are met. Imagine what they might demand. You should also expect white coaches such as Nick Saban of Alabama and Urban Meyer of Ohio State to support their black players come what may, for if they don't, they will never recruit another black player and will have to find another line of work. (See below for cravenness.)
- White males are on the way out. It's not enough anymore to be leftist. We live in an age of identity politics. You have to be black to understand the black experience. You have to be female to understand the female experience. You have to be homosexual to understand the homosexual experience. You have to be disabled to understand the disabled experience. You have to be Muslim to understand the Muslim experience. See how it works? Straight white able-bodied males, no matter how politically correct they may be, are out. We're seeing the beginnings of a purge. In 10 or 20 years, there will be few (if any) white males in the upper ranks of university administration.
- We are seeing just how craven leftists are. Instead of standing up to the student thugs, as anyone with any spine would do, they cower in fear and capitulate. As a conservative, I am enjoying every bit of this. What goes around, comes around.
What say you?
