{"id":79205,"date":"2015-11-12T12:48:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79205"},"modified":"2015-11-12T12:48:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:48:46","slug":"racial-hysteria-triumphs-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79205","title":{"rendered":"Racial Hysteria Triumphs on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heather Mac Donald writes<\/a>: The pathological narcissism of American college students has found a potentially devastating new source of power in the sports-industrial complex. University of Missouri president Timothy Wolfe resigned Monday morning in the face of a threatened boycott by black football players of an upcoming game. Wolfe\u2019s alleged sin was an insufficient appreciation for the \u201csystematic oppression\u201d experienced by students of color at the university. Campus agitators also alleged that racial slurs had been directed at black students and feces had been smeared in the shape of a swastika in a dormitory.<\/p>\n

The university\u2019s board of overseers had convened in emergency session to discuss the football boycott; Wolfe resigned before meeting with them, issuing the standard mea culpa: \u201cI take full responsibility for this frustration, and I take full responsibility for the inaction that has occurred.\u201d According to the New York Times, the university could have lost more than $1 million had it forfeited its football game with Brigham Young University on Saturday. A group called \u201cConcerned Faculty\u201d had walked off the job in solidarity with the student activists and was calling on other faculty to join them.<\/p>\n

There is no evidence that the University of Missouri denies equal opportunity to its black students; those black students, like every other student on campus, are surrounded by lavish educational resources, available to them for the asking on a color-blind basis. The university\u2019s faculty and administrators are surely among the most prejudice-free, well-meaning group of adults in human history. Thousands of Chinese students would undoubtedly do anything for the chance to be \u201csystemically oppressed\u201d by the University of Missouri\u2019s stupendous laboratories and research funding.<\/p>\n

But Missouri\u2019s political class has embraced the patent delusion that the university is rife with racism. Governor Jay Nixon called on college officials to \u201censure the University of Missouri is a place where all students can pursue their dreams in an environment of respect, tolerance and inclusion.\u201d In truth, the only barrier to such pursuit is a student\u2019s own lack of academic preparedness, should he have been admitted under a racial preference. Mayor Bob McDavid of Columbia, Missouri\u2014where the university is located\u2014told CNN after Wolfe\u2019s resignation that he congratulated the \u201cstudents on achieving their goal.\u201d McDavid insisted that we need to \u201cdeal with the pain of minorities\u201d and that we will be \u201cdone\u201d only \u201cwhen every student has the freedom to fulfill his dream unimpeded by racial epithets.\u201d<\/p>\n

The precedent set here is monumental. Any student protester who can convince his college\u2019s football or basketball team to threaten a strike will be able to bring administrators to their knees even more quickly than usual. Administrative cupidity and alumni fanaticism have turned the collegiate sports-industrial complex into the most powerful force on campus. If that behemoth can be reliably persuaded to support the latest racial agitation\u2014and there will often be a critical mass of black athletes to appeal to\u2014then an already supine leadership class will discard the reality principle once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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