Alan Jacobs

So according to Roxane Gay, the students protestors — all of them, I suppose; she never acknowledges any exceptions — are just “making the most of their college experience” by “doing the necessary work to ensure that the next generation that participates in the tradition of student activism will be fighting different battles,” while their critics — again, no exceptions are noted — (1) want to allow white people to “indulge their basest whims,” (2) think “protest should be a polite and demure endeavor that pleases everyone,” and (3) believe that “people of color [should] endure without complaint … racial aggressions both great and small.”

See how simple our political controversies are? All you have to do is boil everything down to the most reductive, simplistic, Manichaean oppositions between Good and Evil and then the answer becomes obvious!