Well, garsh darnit. Too bad that we are so unedumacated. Apparently, Conservatives are just not quite smart enough to grasp the subtle nuances of the campus protests. Fortunately, for us yokels out here, CNN has posted an article by Jeremi Suri, a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin to help us oafs. Professor Suri elite-splains “What conservatives don’t get about the protests roiling college campuses”. I bet he really had to work to dumb it down for us troglodytes out here in the parts of the country not contiguous to a college campus.

As I wrote about in this morning’s Victory Girls Blog post, things got hairy overnight when the little cherubs took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. I thought that the protests at campuses were about Hamas and the ZIONISTS. But, nopers, they are about the Conservative War Against Colleges per Mr. Suri:

This Republican war on universities is the essential history behind the current conflicts on campuses. The student protests and police crackdowns are a result of the attacks on universities since Bush’s presidency. These attacks have over the years undermined university leadership and provoked students, staff and faculty. External pressure has brought excessive police presence on to campuses, as witnessed across the country last week.

It’s your fault, you bumpkins. You probably went to a non-Woke school where you studied and then played Frisbee on the Quad. YOU probably never protested anything because you were working to pay for school.

Here’s more from our Yale-educated Professor Suri but now at UT-Austin:

On my campus this has meant the abrupt shuttering of offices that helped minority students, faculty and staff adjust to university life. Military veterans and first-generation students can still get targeted support, but not African-American students from Houston or Latinx students from the Rio Grande Valley or transgender students from Dallas. In early April, more than 40 staff members who had worked on diversity, mostly from minority backgrounds, were fired.

At the same time, new staff were hired by the conservative centers. They continue to provide comfortable and highly-valued spaces for their students. This dynamic has clearly whitened the University of Texas at Austin, as evidenced by immediate difficulties recruiting and retaining faculty and students of color.

This context is crucial for understanding recent protests on my campus, and others around the country. Many students, staff and faculty, especially those from minority backgrounds, feel that they have suffered setback after setback at the hands of hostile politicians and deferential administrators. They feel that they have less influence over their universities than at any time in recent decades, and they are largely correct.

Oof, LatinX, really. Professor Suri should really read “Stop using ‘Latinx’ if you really want to be inclusive”. He could edumacate himself. Latinos are not really fond of LatinX.

Professor Suri finally gets around to the Hamas Campus protests:

The demonstrations on behalf of Palestinians have roots in concerns about campus governance. After all, no one really believes that universities can somehow end this war.

There are, of course, good reasons why university leaders should not give in to protesters on these and other points. Many of the demands are naïve and one-sided. Some of the protests have devolved into antisemitic and other hateful behaviors that should be punished under campus behavior codes, when the evidence is clear and the perpetrators have been given due process.

That first paragraph is a hoot! These protesting students are really concerned about “campus governance” The little money-spending cherubs don’t really believe they can end the war. Stop, it’s too funny. Maybe that’s why they are all dancing now.

New Orleans protests continue: 100s students from Loyola and Tulane are circled up, dancing and chanting, preparing for arrests from dozens of TUPD and NOPD pic.twitter.com/wOkviQxPu0

— delaney (@delaney_nolan) April 30, 2024

Yale finally sent out an ultimatum and the protest encampment ended:

From the New York Post:

Yale University officials said all protesters at an anti-Israel encampment on Cross Campus chose to leave the area after facing potential suspension and arrest.

On Tuesday morning, Yale issued a final warning to protesters that those participating in the encampment must disperse or “face discipline, including suspension for violating university rules and arrest for trespassing.”

Campus government, my Aunt Fanny. Those kids want that Yale diploma. More:

“All the protesters chose to leave the encampment, and the university is in the process of clearing tents and other items from the area,” officials said in an update.

The threat of arrest came after university administration repeatedly informed protesters that the encampment violated school policies and disrupted academic and university operations.
“As President Salovey outlined in his message to the Yale community on Monday, Yale fully supports peaceful protests and freedom of speech; however, claiming control of our shared space is inconsistent with our principles and values,” Yale said.

“The university does not tolerate the violation of its longstanding policies on using on-campus outdoor spaces, postering and chalking, or the use of amplified sound. Yale’s rules on free expression and peaceable assembly exist to ensure that all members of the community have equitable access to the campus and can engage in the full functions of the university.”

Us yokels are out here laughing. These kids accomplished nada and made us idjits hate them and their cause. Doesn’t matter whether the cause is campus governance or Hamas.

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