The University of California-Santa Cruz recently held a
“Practical Activism” conference featuring a “Protesting 101” workshop to teach
students “tips and methods” for “organizing, mobilizing and participating” in
protests.
Is this
really needed? Why not a workshop to teach fish how to swim or rabbits how to
mate? Or maybe a conference to offer tips and methods for politicians to talk
without really saying anything? Protesting and social-justice-warring is all
college students do, now. There’s no
time left over for learning about the history of governments, reading classical
literature, pondering the great Greek and Roman philosophers, or learning a
trade.
As you
might have imagined, there were other workshops available for the edification
of attendees, including one titled “Intersectional Perspectives on #MeToo,”
which focused on “undocumented women, indigenous women and students of color,”
according to thecollegefix.com. What about undocumented indigenous women of
color? Isn’t that “a thing?” Another, called “Showing Up for the Transgender
Community: Allyship in a transphobic Society,” was designed to “educate
cisgender people about the complex intricacies of allyship to the transgender
community,” in order to “counter and dismantle transphobic language, policies,
and structures.” Yet another workshop
offered to students was “DACA and TPS in the Trump Era.” This balanced and
nuanced symposium instructed conference goers how to be an “ally to the
undocumented community” at a time when the Trump administration has used DACA
and TPS to “wage a war on immigration.”
The
online description for the “Protesting 101” seminar promised to teach students
how to become a “driving force for social change.” If the young scholars really wanted to be a “driving force for
social change” they’d be protesting those who prevent conservatives from speaking—or
appearing—on college campuses across the fruited plain. If they were truly
courageous, they would protest in favor
of traditional values. If they want to be cutting-edge, even outré, they could
hold a “Pride!” celebration for heterosexual marriage.
But, of
course, they won’t. They couldn’t. Conservatives get chased off college
campuses and out of restaurants, while social justice workshops are
continuously held on every college campus in America, in churches and
synagogues, and in public spaces from sea to shining sea.
We hear
continual talk of the undocumented “community,” the LGBTQ “community,” the
transgender “community,” etc. No one ever speaks of the conservative
“community.” The progressives just say “deplorables.”
Gay
marriage is the law of the land. Transgender bathrooms abound. There are more
“undocumented” people in the country then ever before. The media-giant
corporation-entertainment complex is almost entirely comprised of “woke”
radicals. Academia, especially at the college level, is virtually an incubator
for socialism.
You can’t be a “driving force for
social change” when you are
advocating for already ubiquitous ideas. If you want to be a “driving force for
social change,” if you want to highlight your virtue, if you purport to be
courageously fighting “the man” or “the system” or “entrenched orthodoxy” or
“prevailing social mores,” then you should step into the arena and fight for
the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and traditional mores.
College students do not need to be
taught how to protest or how to fight back against institutional discrimination
and bigotry.
That kind of instruction would,
however, be useful for conservatives.
Trump has tried to teach them, but
many are too effete to learn the lesson.
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