The cleansing of conservative ideas from academia reached new lows this last week at Dartmouth, where campus Republicans, having sought and secured permission, used a college bulletin board to put up their display, "Blue Lives Matter." It was designed to honor, during National Police Week (May 15-21) the sacrifices of police officers.
This was too much for Black Lives Matter hooligans, who tore it down. In its place, about three dozen sheets of paper were pasted up, all carrying the message: "YOU CANNOT CO-OPT THE MOVEMENT AGAINST STATE VIOLENCE TO MEMORIALIZE THE PERPETRATORS." At the bottom, each sheet also had the hashtag "#blacklivesmatter."
The Dartmouth Review has the story, complete with timeline.
To my knowledge, Dartmouth administrators have taken no action against the BLM bullies, and have instead warned the College Republicans not to attempt to reconstruct their display on the bulletin board -- the one they spent weeks reserving.
I won't go into the fact that the police have done vastly more to save black lives than all the Dartmouth strongarms put together. I will simply note that, if we want a glimpse at how fascism gets started, BLM is doing us a favor.
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