The moves made by many college administrations to give into campus protests has been met with both praise and condemnation. In a Nov. 22 piece from the editorial board, the New York Post provided what may be the most blistering example, with “College leaders’ pathetic appeasement of campus fascists.”
Included are incidents from Missouri, where protesters are rightfully referred to as “mobs,” Yale’s multi-million dollar letter of concessions, Princeton’s decision to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from campus, and the Black Lives Matter incident at Dartmouth. The latter involved “student gangs” as the Post describes them, disrupting and verbally insulting students peacefully studying in the library. And yet, the administration apologized to the gangs, because the “conservative world out there [is] not being very nice.”
The New York Post makes other points in its brief but nevertheless necessary piece. The emphasis is really on the administrators, for not only making concessions, but for “refusing to even condemn the radicals’ attempts to suppress opposing views.”
The pieces closes by mentioning:
And without buying even temporary peace. The appeasement is guaranteed to encourage more protests — and increasingly extreme demands.
Indeed. It seems more that college campuses have become a breeding ground for activists. God help you nowadays if you dissent or dare to actually want to receive the education you’re paying for.
Students have been acting so uproariously that the administrators are afraid to go against them. Thus, decisions to resign or lay out multi-million dollar concessions seem to be of fear, rather than any real reasons.
That is how these students operate, however. Except they’re not the ones who are in charge and hired to lead the school; the administrators are.
These administrators have caved to those who not only are “campus fascists” — but also whose appetites for appeasement may never be satisfied.
