The lesson from Columbia - Don Surber

The protest is not getting much traction for several reasons. - Don Surber

• The first reason is nobody cares. Jim Carville had a rant on Twitter and he said of 15 issues people under 30 were asked to rank, young people listed the Palestinian war as No. 15.

...There are aesthetic reasons as well. As I recall, the girls in the Vietnam protests were hot. 

• Two generations later, the girls are chubbier and wearing masks. 
• You also don’t know if you will get a surprise when she takes off her jeans...

Times have changed. In the 1960s, colleges were seen as places of scholarship. 

People revered the Ivy League schools. 

• Over time, the schools shed their reputations in favor of promoting bad science (climate change) and bad policy (DEI) and outright racism (critical race theory)...