Whodda thunk it? Donald Trump has emerged as the candidate
with the sanest take on Mizzou.
"I think it's just disgusting.
I think the two people who resigned are weak, ineffective people... When they
resigned, they set something in motion that's going to be a disaster for the
next long period of time.... Many of those [demands by protesters] are like
crazy."
This is right. Those professors had tenure, and tenure
exists for a reason, not just to make their lives easier. If they aren’t
willing to stand up to this mau-mauing they have failed in a responsibility
they freely undertook; they had a duty to other students and they abdicated.
Alan Dershowitz agrees with me:
“It is free speech for me, but not
for thee. Universities should not tolerate this kind of double standard… If
you’re going to be a college administrator or a professor, if you have tenure,
you have to speak back to the students, you have to call these
things what they are: double standards, hypocrisy, bigotry, McCarthyism,
and the fog of fascism is descending quickly over many American
universities.”
And he’s not the only one.
This failure is like chum in the water. So it spreads. From a
statement by the group Amherst Uprising:
5. President Martin must issue a
statement to the Amherst College community at large that states we do not
tolerate the actions of student(s) who posted the “All Lives Matter” and “Free
Speech” posters. Also let the student body know that it was racially
insensitive to the students of color on our college campus and beyond who are
victim to racial harassment and death threats; alert them that Student Affairs
may require them to go through the Disciplinary Process if a formal complaint
is filed, and that they will be required to attend extensive training for racial
and cultural competency.
And another example.
But this student paper's editorial is fantastic. F*ckin' A right.