Victor Davis Hanson: The Campus Cry-Bullies

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The Campus Cry-Bullies

How did we get to the point that at our ‘elite’ universities, privileged students were de facto running the universities, resulting in zoom courses for the law-abiding and abbreviated if not cancelled graduation ceremonies for the majority?

Answer: the Columbia pro-Hamas cry-bullies have sized up their faculties, college administrators, and blue-state mayors. These young narcissists rightly have concluded that most privately sympathize with the pampered students—likewise, supporting the Hamas/Gaza terrorist cause, despising Israel, tolerating anti-Semites in their midst— and given worry over their titles, salaries, and careers—covertly siding with these young fascists in keffiyehs.

So, the more the rioters heard of official “deadlines” and “consequences”, the more they understood the subtext of “we don’t really mean it” and laughed their warnings off.

The protestors do not expect January 6th consequences for breaking into closed buildings at Columbia and “illegal parading”—when hundreds were jailed and sentenced to years in prison, and Ashli Babbitt was lethally shot for the misdemeanor of entering a broken window.