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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.]
After weeks in which college students at campuses from Columbia to Harvard to UCLA celebrated murders and rapes, waved the flags of Islamic terrorist organizations and assaulted Jewish people, one student has finally been held accountable.
The student, a frat brother at University of Mississippi, was a counterprotester who allegedly mocked a pro-terror student as “Lizzo” and made sounds some thought resembled a monkey.
While no amount of calls for the destruction of America or assaults on Jewish students led to any outrage in the media or actual consequences (including Khymani James, a leader of the Columbia University encampment who talked to university officials about killing Jews), the incident at a decidedly non-Ivy school has actually generated outrage and consequences.
Knocking a Jewish female UCLA student unconscious didn’t do it. Barring Jewish students from being able to go to their classes didn’t do it. Assaulting staff members and faculty at universities didn’t do it. But call a fat black female activist Lizzo” and it’s an instant nationwide outrage.
The Biden administration personally condemned it. The New York Times, USA Today, The Daily Beast, NBC News, CNN and Newsweek all covered this urgent story. None of them condemned or addressed a Jewish girl being knocked unconscious at UCLA. Or other specific assaults.
What the ‘Ole Miss’ story really tells us is that the sudden concern for free speech on campuses is a hoax. The media and the rest of the Left believe that calling for the murder of Jews is free speech while calling another student “Lizzo” isn’t. Just as they believe that non-Mexican students wearing sombreros is a punishable offense but cheering for Hamas isn’t.
In 2019, Harvard rescinded admission to Kyle Kashuv, a conservative survivor of the Parkland massacre, because of racial slurs in a text message from 2016. According to Harvard, a student can be retroactively denied admission because of something stupid he texted when he was 16, but Hamas supporters can’t be disciplined when they promote violence and antisemitism because of a highly selective commitment to “free speech”. Harvard kicked out incoming freshmen over old memes, accusing them of a lack of “maturity and moral character”.
Supporting the massacre of Jews however doesn’t raise any issues of “moral character”.
If free speech on campuses meant the right to air any views, no matter how abhorrent, to hurl any insult, that would at least be fair. In reality though campuses closely police speech they don’t like while defending their inaction against leftist terrorism and violence as “free speech”.
Universities don’t believe in free speech. Neither does the media. What they do believe is that calling a fat black girl “Lizzo” is unacceptable but chanting “Intifada”, “Glory to Our Martyrs” or “Yemen, Yemen, make us proud, turn another ship around!” in support of the Houthi Jihadis attacking civilian ships near Yemen are legitimate and even praiseworthy forms of speech.
At Brown, “hundreds of students on the Main Green chanted” in support of a terrorist group fighting the US Navy under the motto, “Allahu Akbar, Death to America, Death to Israel, a Curse on the Jews and Victory for Islam.” But at least Lizzo didn’t come up.
(That’s the same university whose commitment to anti-racism is so wholehearted that it barred white students from one of its classes in violation of both state and federal law.)
No university would tolerate a KKK rally on its premises. When racists marched at the University of Virginia, it was a national outrage, but when UVA recently cleared an encampment of Hamas supporters, the president felt the need to offer multiple apologies to the terrorist supporters.
The terrorist rallies are not protected because of free speech, but because the Left backs them.
Even while defending the Hamas encampments, universities and the media have taken every opportunity to criminalize and punish opponents and counter-protesters. Whether it was assistant professor Shai Davidai being banned from the Columbia campus, Yale spending a year investigating Evan Morris, a Jewish engineering professor, for signing a letter condemning campus antisemitism, or blaming UCLA Jewish counterprotesters for fighting back against violent assaults by Hamas supporters or the Ole Miss incident, there’s a consistent pattern of harassing, penalizing and demonizing anyone who gets in the way of the Hamas supporters.
That’s not free speech either.
The double standard is not a new problem. In 2020, the same political systems that ruthlessly suppressed anti-lockdown protesters with violent arrests, widespread censorship and, at the furthest extreme in Canada, martial law, not only tolerated the BLM race riots, but punished the mildest forms of dissent against it with firings, cancel culture and even criminal prosecution.
The same political system that permitted tearing down and vandalizing statues also prosecuted drivers driving over BLM graffiti on streets. Tearing down a Columbus statue was “in the finest tradition of political protest”, but swerving over a giant yellow BLM was a hate crime.
While the double standards were defended at the time as a response to an oppressed minority, the Hamas campus riots pit two minority groups against each other with revealing results. The system is no longer just picking and choosing between a minority group and a nameless class of targets for its violence, but between two groups both protected by civil rights law.
What made universities and the media choose one group, Muslims, over another, Jews?
Islamists have become part of the larger leftist coalition. The atrocities of Oct 7 have been rebranded as a liberation movement. After months of rallies, the position initially adopted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Students Association (MSA) which openly endorsed the crimes of Hamas, has become widespread across the Left.
Rather than honestly address that the media has once again taken to lying about the riots, as it did in 2020 with CNN’s infamous “’fiery but mostly peaceful protest’ being reported on with flames in the background, depicting the violence as the work of a handful of fringe figures, suggesting that the only reason protests became violent were the police arrests, and falsely portraying the views of the protesters as moderates seeking an end to the fighting.
The media, eager for any distraction from the violent racist criminality of its cause, chose to make a woman who called the cops after getting into an argument in a park into a national villain, while looking away from the worst kinds of violence and looting across the country.
Now the unfortunate former frat brother at ‘Ole Miss’ is the latest national villain because it allows the media to distort the conflict between Jewish students and Hamas supporters in the Ivies into a more familiar story about a showdown between Southern racists and black people.
While the story of the frat brother was covered by every major national media outlet, the story of Eleanor Saghian, a Jewish UCLA student who was knocked unconscious, only appeared on FOX News. Milagro Jones, a formerly homeless non-Jewish UCLA student who was mistakenly assaulted by Hamas supporters, was likewise only able to tell his story to FOX News.
The perpetrators of the assaults have not been suspended or expelled from campus.
If Hamas supporters violently assault students, the national media will boycott the story, but if a counterprotester insults a Hamas supporter, the media will make sure it’s front page news.
That’s actually very insightful. Like what happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. A bubble where one viewpoint predominated, like when more than 90% of professors and journalists in USA are Democrats. So one only hears their viewpoint, and dissenting viewpoints get trashed, even if impeccably logical.
I don’t think that drunkenly impersonating a gorilla to taunt a black student qualifies as an “impeccably logical” dissenting viewpoint, but hey that’s just one man’s opinion.
triggered, putz? take your man purse and get back to mommy’s basement.
It’s not a purse. It’s a handbag. He probably has a pirate shirt with puffy sleeves, too.
and what of the jewish taunting? do you think young people will just accept the fact they have no other methods of expressing themselves, but to get drunk and act out. i do not recall the jewish students calling for extinction of islam students post oct 7. its is a double standard. our children learn by example. what does it mean to have equal justice under the law? to silence a group based on race, creed, religion is unlawful in a free country.
this is just another example of how our government ignores equal justice and promotes division to gain wealth and power. our corrupt leaders have no business dictating the moral code. the moral code was established when america became a country. how america has strayed from equal justice in a modern civilized society. do you think men will just accept the tiered justice system without acting out? what of authority? how quickly will the people realized the double standard and refuse to acknowledge authority? will authority be established by force? it is a slippery slope.
” our corrupt leaders have no business dictating the moral code”
Well said and spot on.
Why not? She looks like a gorilla. Worse, actually. At least we like gorillas in zoos. Nobody likes them in college campuses, though, except oikophobic lefty nutjobs. Keep feeding those fatties, you losers.
Oh, right. Blacks are supposed to free from criticism no matter how fat or criminal they are. They’re a protected species, like islamopithecines.
And the real Lizzo is also disgustingly obese with no ass or tits like the college ape.
“islamopithecines” brilliant. I’ll steal that one. This unsightly “Lizzo” has much more to fear than thr honest opinion of a stupid drunk…her health us almost ruined by piggish eating and couch sitting and so black or white her doom is sealed by her own choice…sadly true.
You inferred what the post you replied to did not imply.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/05/04/leftists-big-mad-when-ole-miss-students-chant-lizzo-lizzo-lizzo-at-obese-black-anti-israel-protester-1457066/
That’s the video of the slovenly Lizzo bitch. It’s hilarious. Several of those frat boys were dressed in red white and blue American flag motifs. They chanted “Lizzo, Lizzo, Lizzo” and said said “fuck you fat-ass! Fuck you! Hey fuck you, bitch!” You can see a cop watching over her smirk at the frat boys. He knew they were funny. The kid who made the monkey sounds deserves a medal, in my opinion.
She was standing in front of a Psuedostinian “flag” and praising jihad terrorism so the sow deserved what she got and then some. Those frat boys were drinking out of those plastic cups of beer they like at parties while they taunted Lizzo, which is funny.
Apparently “Ole Miss” thinks its worse to imply that someone is fat (or was he complimenting her vocal skills), than to support mass murder, rape, torture, kidnapping and calling for genocide.
And let’s face it, Lizzo isn’t exactly svelte.
She’s nasty. I remember a commercial she did shilling some product or other while she took a bubble bath. with rose petals. A rose by any other name is pig shit. I was just glad I didn’t have to see any nudity.
Quite possibly the best article/analysis that Greenfield has written/given. Excellent.
thank you
The Ole Miss student was kicked out of his fraternity before the university took any action. Some “Brothers.”. More wokeness than loyalty. he’s better off without them.
If that report is true, I have no respect for his former “brothers.”
For readers who are averse to all media sources aside from FPM, it’s probably worth noting that over 2,600 student protesters have been arrested for overwhelmingly nonviolent offenses since April 18, with many being suspended and expelled. If that doesn’t satisfy you, I’m not sure what will, aside from calling in the National Guard and giving them the green light to open fire on students in a repeat of the Kent State massacre.
Mississippi has always been the most conservative, regressive, and—probably without coincidence—worst state in the U.S. by most metrics, including education. I’d imagine that it’s pretty difficult to be racist enough to get yourself kicked out of an all-white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant fraternity at Ole Miss, but the buffoon in question (who has most likely never seen a Jewish person in his entire life) managed to achieve that rare feat, not by being a defender of Israel, but by being unable to handle his liquor, thinking that it would be funny to call a black student a gorilla, and disgracing his fraternity with a racist legacy of the Old South that it would probably like to downplay. There is literally no evidence to indicate that the black student was expressing support for terrorism or Hamas in any way.
If you’re looking for a champion of free speech or a martyr for the Israeli cause, I’d suggest that you keep looking beyond this drunk, racist teenager. Otherwise, feel free to write a letter to the Ole Miss chapter of Phi Delta Theta and urge his reinstatement as a member. Something tells me that they don’t have anyone with surnames like “Greenfield” or “Horowitz” in their ranks, and who knows—they might think of you as a fun novelty.
You seem to have a very broad definition of non-violent.
Please let me know the next time a student is disciplined for yelling “Go back to Poland” at a group of Jewish students. That IS non-violent, just as this event was.
By “arrested”, you mean evicted from seizing control of school property and threatening students and faculty while waving terrorist flags.
By “arrested”, you mean being given a desk appearance ticket while scoring social media cred and flattering media stories.
None of them have actually been condemned, and certainly not made into a national story the way that dumb drunk bro was.
Why is supporting terrorists, violently attacking Jewish students and threatening to kill Jews not a national news story while one drunken frat bro is?
Why is calling for the murder of Jews free speech while making noises at someone isn’t?
Those are the questions this article asked and they’re the ones you’re trying to distract from.
“The drunk bro.” It was apropos that he was holding a Dixie cup of beer when he made the monkey noises. A Mississippi boy. I knew a guy from Mississippi once. Johnny Beckham, I think his name was. One of the best guys I ever knew.
“I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times, they’re are not forgotten
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land.”
Eat it, Lizzo.
Somewhat pitiable that you can’t quite remember the exact name of a guy whom you describe as one of your best friends. But hey, cheers to “maybe Johnny Beckham”
I knew him briefly forty one years ago, dumbass. I’m sure he’ll get over it if my memory is bad.
You don’t seem to get over things, though. I heard erectile dysfunction, no pussy and little dicks can do that to guys, though. I guess it can be tough to be a D-Bag leftist.
Didn’t you—in a smaller sense—also seize control of school property at UCLA last week by posting some Kinkos printouts on spaces intended for students and faculty, and by using that campus as a backdrop for your own political social media post? It would seem that you agree, to some extent, that campus protest and even some forms of direct action are justifiable and that “outside agitators” should be permissible, as long as that agitator happens to be you.
Nobody deprived your boy at Ole Miss of his freedom of speech. He merely learned the hard way that freedom of speech isn’t the same thing as freedom from social consequences, and that his fraternity has the freedom to not want to associate with him anymore. But I’m sure that you already know that, even if some readers don’t.
If you want to play the “what about” game, I’ll use the incident that someone referenced about the masked protester outside of Columbia telling Jews to “go back to Poland.” I didn’t need to visit the Holocaust museum in Skokie with my girlfriend’s family during Passover weekend to know how abhorrent and brutal such a chant is to Jews, but then again, the commenter who referenced this incident seemed to know about it from—you guessed it—the mainstream media. ‘Why isn’t the media talking about it?’ FPM exclaims! Well…I saw that the Los Angeles Times reported on it, as did the New York Times, as did The Independent. Al Jazeera reported on it too, and the list goes on.
still trolling?
yes, filming a video on campus vs. seizing control of the space and refusing to let people pass are exactly the same thing
Re: “go back to Poland”, the LA Times ran an op-ed, the NY Times briefly mentioned it but without naming those responsible
see the difference with Ole Miss?
Your legacy as a writer will be that of a simple race-baiter, who somehow, inexplicably feels hurt and wounded when that same race-baiting takes a nasty turn to attack your own group. If I were a guy who liked to go out and pick bar fights, like the Jeff Bargholz’s of the world (tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are), I don’t think that I’d be surprised if a day came when someone eventually hit me back.
FPM might be a safe little bubble where people can complain about everyone ranging from Blacks to Native Hawaiians with Jews being immune, but I’ll just say that most bigots in America don’t operate that way. Taunt a black woman with gorilla impressions one day, and it’ll only be a few minutes before Jews suffer that same sort of dehumanization. And I sure wish that you guys could learn from your own mistakes. Remember when Kanye was blaming blacks for their own enslavement? FPM lauded him as some kind of ideological comrade. It only took him about a week to go off against Jews. Remember that Watson guy that you liked to post, going off about BLM? Only took him about a month before he went on a tirade expressing his sentiment that Jews should be wiped from the face of the planet. Try to learn from that boomerang effect next time.
Don’t you know when to tuck your tail and run, Samuel Poop? Give it up. “You got no game,” as my girlfriend says.
Samuel Poop. As if you really have a proud name like “Samuel.”
Oh, so you automatically hate white students and defend black ones? What is it with you lefties? Why are you so bizarre?
The world doesn’t want you. Just die already.
I don’t care HOW many have been arrested so far. But the riots, mayhem, destruction, are ongoing. that means NOT ENOUGH have yet been arrested.
Compare with the large number of folks who were invited into a large building by coppers and gummit uffishuls holding the doors open and waving them on in, who (with a low enough number of any damage incidents one would run out of incidents before running out of counting fingers on one hand…) damaged nothing nor harmed anyone.. yet are still, three years on, rotting in prisin with not even a trial yet….
I find myself wondering how any more days left until Kristalnacht…..
The left have always been pro-violence. They literally think they are justified to do anything to advance their cause.
The ends justify the means in their projecting delusional eyes.
This has been true since the early 60s. One of my high school teachers agreed when I asked him “Does the end justify the means?”.
In the sixties there was still debate on federal aid to colleges.
That reminded me, it was a lot cheaper to go to college back then 🙂
Take away every tax dollar and things might change!
We know why and how this is happening and where it’s going.
If immediate dissolution of this toxic administration isn’t possible, swift divine intervention would be nice.
Freedom of speech is dying on college campuses
It died in the 60s
I am a Jew. If Blacks want me to stop hating them, they must first stop hating me.
I won’t hold my breath…..but I WILL hold my nose to guard against their stench.
By the way, ….. I took this exact same position against the Jimmy Carter type White bigots back in the day.
This Scandinavian heritage, very white USA born Christian, stands 100% with Judaism and Israel.
I am in my e60s. I attended the most fully integrated schools in my city.
Blacks tire me. Violence. Entitlement mentality.
I am “All blacked out.”
Cannot we just be Americans?
“Cannot we just be Americans?”
Not any more. If we were all Americans we would have paved over Washington DC with all the tyrannts still in it and gotten on with our lives.
They need us Balkanized. It’s the only way they can control us.
That reminded me. That last time I was in DC was 1967 It was nice back then.
My ex wife wanted us to go to the District of Corruption back when Obangi was President. I told her I would sooner go to the deepest pit in Hell and she could pay for it. Too bad. I’m sure it was nice back in the day.
We all know wives don’t pay for anything. I think that’s the main reason they get married, after the sex.
Problem is, blacks don’t identify themselves as Americans. They identify themselves as black Americans who live in a country called Black America. For them, race comes first.
the ultimate racism
We are living in the world of Herbert Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance.”
“A country belongs first to the individuals who were born there.”
– Oriani Fallaci
Lizzo has a double standard? Looks to me like she’s got a double body.
Imagine how many hernias she will get, with that fat bursting out all over.
“Double standard?”
That Lizzo looking sow is ten times more than a double. Where all the grease and donuts came from to feed her to full fatness, I don’t know. Does she have it injected intravenously while she lolls around unable to stand up, like that pig boy in “O Lucky Man?” And she doesn’t even have a fat ass or tits.
And yes, for some weird reason I know who Lizzo is. She looks like an obese lezzo but I hear she like guys. That’s scary. I’d have to kill myself If I woke up next to that pig. I just wouldn’t be able to look in a mirror in the mornings ever again. I mean, there’s a limit to how fat a chick should get.
Thank you for referencing the “pig boy” (I think it looked more like a goat-boy) from “O Lucky Man” …..the soundtrack to which I still listen to a few times a year.
Classic
LOL! Yeah, guess it was goat boy. I don’t remember. I’m surprised anybody got that reference. That’s an old movie, 1973 I think but saw it on cable when I was 18 and that scene really freaked me out. I had trouble going to sleep that night!
Malcolm McDowell. I love that guy.
Calling The fat black female woke leftist democrat racist anti-Semite activist Lizzo” is an instant nationwide outrage.
Outrages are no longer what they used to be.
Is America itself becoming depraved and psychopathic and berserk like Islamic Moo–Slum societies and cultures and countries ?
The daily evidence and news seem to say so.
What these institutions of “higher indoctrination” are doing is signing their own death warrants, tearing up their own charters, They fail to bear in mind that they who graduated from their institutions in days/years past are a major part of their present day wealth and support. they also fail to realise that without that continuing support they have no real future. They are sowing seed of anarchy and corruption, forgetting the two basic laws of increase: you get MORE OF what you sow, and you also get THE SAME KIND of fruit.
Personally, I am praying for a bumper crop to be harvested real soon.
How deep into the line of succession?
Somebody should have handed that morbidly obese ”female” a Club Sandwich or a Watermelon as she must have been exhausted and hungry after spewing her words and deeds.
Hamas needs to leave and Leave Now