University of Missouri President and Chancellor Step Aside Amid Protests

The MSM take is at the New York Times (via Memeorandum).

This whole thing is kind of mind-boggling. And fascinating.

The left's racial grievance industry demands "safe spaces" for oppressed minorities, and the universities can't roll over fast enough.

Graduate student Jonathan Butler, who is black, staged a hunger strike. He's interviewed at the Washington Post, "‘Justice is worth fighting for': A Q&A with the graduate student whose hunger strike has upended the University of Missouri":

Marginalized populations are not obligated to educate and converse about our experiences, but we did to make this campus more aware.

— ConcernedStudent1950 (@CS_1950) November 10, 2015

A lot of people who otherwise wouldn’t pay attention to this type of protest now are because of the solidarity you received from the football team. For those who are just tuning into this story, what do you want them to know?

Butler: The campus climate here at the University of Missouri is an ugly one, it’s one that often we don’t talk about and it’s one that, when issues come up, whether it’s sexual assault, whether it’s Planned Parenthood, whether it’s racism, it gets swept under the rug because we want to rest on our traditions and rest on all these values that we hold in high esteem. And I think the message is that underneath all of that there is a lot of dirt and there’s a lot of pain and there’s a lot of hurt. There’s things that need to be changed. And at the end of it all, even if you don’t really understand what I’m saying, even if you can’t really understand systemic oppression and systemic racism, is the fact we can’t be at a university where we have values like “Respect, Responsibility, Discovery and Excellence” and we don’t have any of those things being enacted on campus, especially in terms of respect. I’m on a campus where people feel free to call people the n-word, where people feel free as recently as last week, to used [their] own feces to smear a swastika in a residential hall. Everything that glitters is not gold. We really need to dig deep and be real with ourselves about the world we live in and understand that we’re not perfect but understand that just because we’re not perfect doesn’t mean we don’t start to understand and address the issues around us...

Basically, demands for respect, amid amorphous "racial incidents," shut down a university, and almost derailed a major collegiate football program, with potential financial losses in the million dollar range.

It's pretty striking.

More at Memeorandum.

Plus, lots of coverage at Instapundit, "WHILE IT’S FUN TO SIT BACK AND WATCH THE “REVOLT OF THE CODDLED” AS COLLEGE CAMPUSES SELF-DESTRUCT...", and "MIZZOU AND YALE SHOW WHY IT’S TIME TO BURN UNIVERSITIES TO THE GROUND..."

Still more, "MY SECRET PLAN TO END THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE BY USING INSIDERS TO MAKE HIGHER EDUCATION LOOK RIDICULOUS CONTINUES TO ADVANCE..."

Well, I need to read around a bit myself. More on this later. We're reaching some kind of tipping point, that's for sure.