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  1. Student editors at Claremont McKenna College:
    “Your fear-driven action (or lack thereof) only further reinforced the fear among the student body to speak out against this movement. We needed your leadership more than ever this week”

    It’s an understandable misconception by the students that the president would set the standard, but that’s not how the campus activist game works.

    In the campus activist game, student activists are necessarily the spearhead. Students must play the starring role and set the foundational conditions that enable their faculty and alumni teammates to play their co-starring role.

  2. Well hooray for the editors at Claremont, but anyone taking odds on how long before the mob turns on them???

    From my perspective inside, the events at Amherst linked by London are the norm; Claremont’s editors are on the 2 sigma side of the bell curve.

  3. These people will be crushed with all the force the mob can muster, and will become a warning for all other dissenters.

    The governors need to step in and conduct purges of the various departments.

    PURGES.

  4. P.S. Governors for the state universities. The private ones must be dealt with by the trustees, alumni and donors.

  5. “The beginning of a backlash? Let us fervently hope so.”

    Sadly, the only things that will stop this now will be some combination of expulsions and beat downs.

  6. physicsguy: “but anyone taking odds on how long before the mob turns on them???”

    Well yeah. Competition in general, including the campus activist game, normally involves adversarial interaction.

    That produces the winners and losers, which determines how the spoils are apportioned.

    Certainly, the kids risk losing the game by undertaking to play it, and losing does often come with a penalty. Moreover, rookies normally lose to veterans until the rookies become veterans by learning to win through their defeats. Such is normal for competition.

    The bottom line remains that the only way to win the game, and to win the spoils and (more importantly in this case) deny the spoils to the other side, is to play the game.

  7. “The beginning of a backlash? Let us fervently hope so.”

    There won’t be a backlash because the administrators believe the same nonsense as the students participating in these mobs. All those victim study departments and other academic trash wouldn’t exist if the administrators and the faculty pool they are drawn from had any courage or even sense, instead of brains filled with PC mush.

  8. Paul in Boston:

    The backlash students will have to apply counter-pressure. It won’t come from craven administrators.

  9. Next editorial:

    We apologize for any emotional harm we may have caused our readers. This was not our intenet… we resign as editors, writers of this publication and submit …

  10. Intent – oops

    The girl Cavuto interviewed who comes from a very middle class family struggling daily while receiving help from multiple public assistance programs went to a high school in Chicago that costs upwards of $34000 a year …

  11. The Claremont Independent is a conservative student paper, and is, according to its “Who We Are” page, considered by many on campus to be “a group of crazed right-wingers trying to spread our propaganda”. So, not sure its editorial indicates the “beginning of a backlash”.

    The paper calling itself the “official student newspaper” is The Forum. It seems supportive of the protestors’ aims, yet not way out there in left field.

  12. Neo: “The backlash students will have to apply counter-pressure. It won’t come from craven administrators.”

    Right – not at 1st iteration.

    In the recent Ivy League ROTC movement, the faculty advocates explained that they did not and (claim) could not take active part until student activists first established the campaign on campus.

    In other words, student initiation and leadership were structurally necessary, regardless of whether the students may have preferred to defer to adult authorities, like the Claremont McKenna student editors preferred the president to take a stand.

    In fact, in the Ivy League ROTC restoration, it’s notable that the administrators were one of the last groups to come aboard. One imagines their index fingers were quite prunish by then.

    Paul in Boston,

    Don’t assume the administrators “believe the same nonsense” more than they are “craven”.

    Establish as the strong horse in the campus activist game. Then see who stands where.

  13. What an excellent editorial! Bravo!

    It’s sad that one of the most impressive parts about it is that they use clear, precise, common language instead of the Orwellian progressive-speak that has become so prevalent on college campuses.

  14. These colleges are failing their students intellectually and psychologically by not laughing at their demands. And around the country, every worrywart student is going to subconsciously redouble his efforts to find something that he can protest about. These kids are rebels without a cause, who’ve decided to make a cause out of imagined disturbances to their own insulation. Their only bravery comes in defending their own cowardice.

  15. That’s an unusually good editorial. Writing like that has a way of outlasting the screeds and burrowing into the approved narrative. After all, how many copies of the Bloom book have been sold compared to the sentimental memoirs of the radicals of yore? The students who wrote it may pay a heavy price but there will be some who read it who will find, to their, astonishment that they agree with a paper they hitherto regarded as a redoubt of kooks. And so the tektonic plates start to shift…

  16. Slightly related: Things at Amherst college are similarly heating up, where the protesters have delivered a list of demands. Check out the twitter feed put out by the campus radicals – it reads so much like Iowahawk satire:

    https://twitter.com/amherstuprising

    Complete w/glaring grammatical errors and then complaints that pointing out grammatical errors is hurtful. *snort*

  17. I understand Rush Limbaugh put his finger on it yesterday: it’s not about safe space, or about anything else specific [it never is, according to David Horowitz, regardless of the topic or pretext, it’s always about the revolution]. It’s about getting the black/negro component of the Democrat base sufficiently riled up so that they will turn out in big numbers for Hillary! in 2016.

  18. It’s about getting the black/negro component of the Democrat base sufficiently riled up so that they will turn out in big numbers for Hillary! in 2016.

    If that’s the idea, it may well backfire. They’re about to turn on Hillary as the racist old white lady. And just wait for the riots outside the Democratic National Convention next year.

    I hope the backlash against all this BLM-orchestrated diversity fascism will bring the election of the Republican candidate, provided that primary voters nominate one who is capable of attracting some independents and disaffected Democrats, while the BLM idiots stay home and/or rally around a Cuba-based campaign for Assata Shakur. Because those BLM fools really are that dumb.

  19. “The beginning of a backlash?”

    One fervently prays for it (and I’m an atheist). But universities and students are simply not plugged into FIRE and other sources of authoritative dissent. Real dissenters lack support. Who knows that the University of Chicago has (re)embraced libertarian First Amendment freedoms for students.

    Unless many more campuses do, no – there isn’t a genuine “backlash” against Left-campus fascism.

  20. @ Lizzy: If I’m right, a decent amount of Amherst students are cross-admits to the Ivies. Now that’s amusing.

    I’m just not impressed with these students that come from the most prestigious and most highly ranked universities/colleges in America.

  21. Imagine some muslims declaring a safe space and then corralling a bunch of 11 year old girls in and denying info on them.

    It’ll be Rot England redux, not a “safe space” at all but the opposite.

  22. Odd bit of trivia:

    This morning, at Caroline Glick’s Facebook page, she notes that the publisher of “The Claremont Independent” is her nephew Stephen Glick, a junior at Pomona College.

    Small world.

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