Triggered by Banana Peel

[Athene]

Color me unimpressed. You're still refusing to think that any opinion other than your own has any validity.

Untrue. I think there can be a variety of opinions about the meaning of any given symbol. The racist message could be a valid interpretation, and might even be the correct one, but the means of expression was so vague and ambiguous that we cannot even say with certainty that it was a message at all, much less have any definitive interpretation. You are the one insisting that there is only one possible interpretation whereas I am saying that out of a field of many possible highly speculative interpretations they chose the most threatening one. Then based on their threatening interpretation of an obscure symbol that might not even have been a symbol they radically changed their plans. The way I see it, the students really aren't to blame for their overreaction to the real-life equivalent of Bevis and Butthead. That's what we've come to expect from college-age adults because leftists have spent years telling children ghost stories about racism and now they lie awake all night in fear of KKK boogeymen.  That's the real context.

I'm not denying that there are racially motivated violent criminals. There are. Are their neo-Nazi's? Of course. Are they an existential threat to the USA? Hardly. They are marginalized fringe groups with zero influence. The only power they will ever have will be from paying them any attention and letting them distract us from real threats.

Perhaps the real threat is "good" folks such as yourself who are all too happy to turn a blind eye, or go out of their way to create elaborate excuses in the face of any wrongdoing/injustice that doesn't stand to fuck with their own personal bottom line. You chronically dismissive types make it that much easier for the violent fuckwads of the world to do their dirt.

My guess, Wooters, is that you secretly feel as though these fellows are actually "livin' the dream"; Doing what you'd do if you had a few less years under your belt....and more balls.