-By Warner Todd Huston
Once again we see the folly of sending anyone to an American college in a story out of Missouri where a large group of black students, including members of the football team, are on a purported “hunger strike” demanding that the president of the college resign over supposed acts of racism on campus none of which really even happened.
Students at the University of Missouri are taking action… meaningless action, naturally… over claimed examples of “racism” on campus. The incidents, these mewling little whiners say, are examples of “endemic” racism on campus.
Riiiight.
Racism.
On the campus of an American university.
The places where a politically correct attitude is so ingrained that speech codes have been implemented to stop people’s widdle feewings from getting hurt. The places where PCism runs amuck. The places where no conservative speakers are allowed to appear. The places comedians won’t even appear at anymore because everyone is perpetually “outraged.” The places where freedom does not exist. This is where these fools are pretending they see racism everywhere.
The specific three incidents that supposedly spurred this strike never happened. That isn’t my claim. It is a fact. In the first false case, grad student Jonathan Butler, the leader of this childish “hunger strike,” said he heard that someone else heard that some random, unidentified guy yelled a racist comment from a truck. In the second non-existent incident, Butler claims that it is somehow “racist” that a state law prevents abortion mill operator Planned Parenthood from performing baby murders on the campus, and for the third false claim of “racism,” Butler says that a “white supremacist” drew a swastika in human feces in a dorm bathroom.
None of this is “racist,” and the first and third incidents are obvious hoaxes with the first one completely unprovable because it was just a claim made by someone who heard someone who said someone did it.
Nonetheless, these halfwitted students have gotten their dander up and are now demanding that Time Wolfe, the white president of the college, resign because he has that darned ol’ “white privilege” thang a’going on. Or… some such nonsense.
Foolishly, President Wolfe met with these infant tyros and even proclaimed that the petulant Butler was an “important voice for social justice” in the school.
By the end of last week, 32 members of the college’s football team had joined Butler in his meaningless campaign to get on TV. Not that it matters. The University of Missouri’s Tigers suck this year and 32 missing players might make their terrible season go away with a merciful whimper.
Sadly, this is the state of affairs in our fetid system of higher miseducation. All these silly children running around pretending they are doing great and wonderful work egged on by the anti-American press which puffs itself up as the arbiter of social mores. It is a sad state of affairs and shows that our colleges are not teaching any thing useful and are turning out millions of good little communists who know nothing what ever.
Our schools need to be torn down, not mollycoddled.
Remember, Mr. and Mrs. America, YOUR tax dollars are paying for this idiocy.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing news, opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that wrote articles on U.S. history for several American history magazines. Huston is a featured writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart News, and he appears on such sites as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, Wizbang.com, and many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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