{"id":2238541,"date":"2024-05-06T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T20:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-suddenly-forgets-about-gaza-and-spends-two-days-outraged-over-a-frat-boys-joke\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T20:38:12","slug":"the-left-suddenly-forgets-about-gaza-and-spends-two-days-outraged-over-a-frat-boys-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-suddenly-forgets-about-gaza-and-spends-two-days-outraged-over-a-frat-boys-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Left&#8217;s Attention Shifts: From Gaza to Outrage Over Frat Boy&#8217;s Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-left-suddenly-forgets-about-gaza-and-spends-two-days-outraged-over-a-frat-boys-joke%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2238541&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As soon as the hobo encampments began popping up on university campuses all over the country, it was only natural to wonder how long these students could hold out before something else grabbed their attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">College kids aren\u2019t known for their commitment to anything, especially right before the beginning of summer vacation. And it was never clear exactly how stinking up a few random quads, and holding out for \u201chumanitarian aid\u201d in the form of a Chipotle burrito bowl, was ever going to affect what\u2019s happening in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, the whole operation, as I\u2019ve <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/heres-the-proof-that-the-free-palestine-movement-is-just-blm-repackaged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">outlined<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> previously, was never even about Gaza or Israel in any way. Instead, it\u2019s about repackaging anti-white hatred into yet another astro-turfed national campaign of riots and civil disorder, just in time for the presidential election. So at some point, it stood to reason, these kids would stop pretending to care about the war in Gaza altogether. They\u2019d drop the act and move to something else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the weekend, as if on cue, the pivot took place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All at once, on campuses and inside newsrooms all over the country, Left-wing outrage over the Middle East subsided. And it was replaced with abject horror concerning a new, supposedly far greater crime against humanity. This act of pure, unadulterated evil took place, if you can believe it, on the campus of the University of Mississippi. And it was all recorded on video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If there are children in the room, avert their eyes. If you have a sensitive stomach, turn away now. This is footage of the atrocity that was caught live, on camera. Brace yourself:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A white Ole Miss frat boy dances like a monkey and makes monkey noises near a Black woman who was protesting for Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>Is this heart warming? (Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StaceyJSpiehler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StaceyJSpiehler<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MgKqIVI3DH\">pic.twitter.com\/MgKqIVI3DH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0FsAamDMPw\">https:\/\/t.co\/0FsAamDMPw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashtonpittman\/status\/1786223536446525567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you\u2019re anything like me, you probably missed the part of that footage you\u2019re supposed to be angry about. For such a supposedly earth-shattering event, it\u2019s tough to spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, what you see is a bunch of frat bros who probably aren\u2019t even that political. They\u2019re probably just tired of the narcissistic and highly fragrant Leftists who have been defiling their campus. They\u2019re pro-America more than anything else. The American flag overalls are a pretty big clue there. Beyond those overalls, what\u2019s the big deal, you might ask?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leave it to the crack reporting team of the Mississippi Free Press to explain why exactly we should be outraged. As one of that papers\u2019 reporters put it, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ashtonpittman\/status\/1786223536446525567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">quote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cA white Ole Miss frat boy dances like a monkey and makes monkey noises near a Black woman who was protesting for Palestine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you go back and look at the tape, and focus entirely on the right-hand side of your screen, you\u2019ll see about two seconds of a student jumping up and down while flailing his arms and making a face. We\u2019re supposed to conclude that this student was \u201cdancing like a monkey\u201d and therefore was insinuating that black people are like monkeys. And in turn, we\u2019re supposed to be extremely outraged by this.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1362-the-left-suddenly-forgets-about-gaza-and-spends-two-days-outraged-over-a-frat-boy-s-joke-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a lot of logical leaps here, which I\u2019ll get to in a second. The path from normal to outraged requires you to jump across five different widely spaced Lilly pads. But first, it\u2019s important to understand that this was the unanimous reaction from the Left. Even as a supposed \u201cgenocide\u201d is going on in the Middle East, this is what they\u2019ve now decided to hyperventilate over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jemele Hill got the lynch mob started. She <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jemelehill\/status\/1786418824826515931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cWhat fraternity does he represent? That fraternity\u2019s national leadership needs to be contacted immediately and that frat should be barred from campus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN, NPR, Newsweek, the Associated Press and pretty much every other outlet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/04\/us\/mississippi-campus-protest-gaza-black-student\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">published<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> self-serious pieces about this supposedly racist \u201cconfrontation.\u201d A former DNC field director named Adam Parkhomenko wrote that this incident is yet more proof that America is a \u201cracist country.\u201d The NAACP chapter at Ole Miss bemoaned the \u201cabhorrent but also entirely unacceptable\u201d and \u201cdeeply disheartening\u201d behavior in the footage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Guardian reported that \u201csome said\u201d that Mississippi\u2019s governor reminded them of a \u201csegregationist\u201d because he put out a tweet praising the students in the video.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Beast called the clip \u201cgross.\u201d Left-wing lobbyist Nina Turner wrote: \u201cThis is a video showing anti-Blackness.\u201d Turner also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ninaturner\/status\/1786401098917445851\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">scolded<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Congressman Mike Collins, who had praised the students in the video: \u201cRepresentative, that is a white man making monkey gestures at a Black woman. And these protesters are NOT terrorists. Don\u2019t play games. Check yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be clear, it\u2019s not just commentators on the Left who are saying things like this. Some conservative pundits joined in as well. For example, Rob Smith <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/robsmithonline\/status\/1786820766161310173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cThe Ole Miss incident was incredibly racist. I don\u2019t care what \u2018influencers\u2019 say or post, I care what elected officials do. @RepMikeCollins is an absolute clown for posting what he posted. I said what I said. Cry more.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former RNC chairman Michael Steele <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MichaelSteele\/status\/1786791495527190682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201c@RepMikeCollins this is not \u2018taking care of business\u2019; and if you think it is, exactly what is the business you are referring to? Your casual approval of racist behavior and the need you seemingly feel to brag about it is an abject failure of your leadership as a member of the United States Congress and not a proud moment for you or #OleMiss.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, this is yet another moment where several commentators on the Right join in with the outrage mob on the Left, which is something that never happens the other way around. And in response to this outrage from all sides, the student\u2019s fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashtonpittman\/status\/1787212259682308527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">kicked<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> him out. Ole Miss has opened a \u201cstudent conduct investigation,\u201d which sounds ominous. Instead of everyone just ignoring this episode and moving on, because there\u2019s about ten million more important things happening, it\u2019s following the standard cancellation template from 2020. This student\u2019s being doxxed online and threatened. His picture is all over. Organizations are cutting ties. You know the drill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other familiar part of this story is that, once again, the mob is claiming that out-of-context video footage tells us everything we need to know about the particular incident. But as a basic factual matter, it\u2019s not even clear that this student was making monkey noises. Again, he\u2019s featured in the video for something like 1.2 seconds. I never noticed the \u201cmonkey noises\u201d until everyone pointed it out. Without that prompting, I\u2019m not sure I ever would have interpreted it that way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More to the point, there\u2019s something funny and ironically racist about Leftists always trying to connect monkey noises to black people. This is a recurring theme, and you have to wonder why that is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They did the same thing in late 2022 when someone allegedly made monkey noises at a girls\u2019 high school volleyball game in Texas. You probably don\u2019t remember that whole debacle, because the narrative was embarrassing for everyone involved and the media immediately dropped it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So to refresh your memory, here\u2019s the allegedly racist footage, which was uploaded by a mother in the stands. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watch and listen, and see if you can detect the monkey noises here:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1. Hi Friends and Family, sadly my post is not one of celebration. This past Friday my daughter&#8217;s Varsity Team Paetow High School(Katy,TX) played against Jordan High School (Katy,TX), and were heckled and harassed with the student section making monkey sounds towards our black <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b5Lp0t0uij\">pic.twitter.com\/b5Lp0t0uij<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lakeesha Kemp-Adams (@KeeshaKA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeeshaKA\/status\/1566569267331571716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019ll notice that no one in the stands or on the court reacted in any way to these allegedly racist monkey noises. In fact, not even the players who were supposedly being targeted by these chants reacted. It was only after this woman got home and uploaded this footage, saying she heard a racist monkey chant, that some sort of investigation was launched by the school district. The story fizzled though, because if you listen to that footage, it\u2019s not remotely clear what this woman is talking about. People do all kinds of chants at sporting events and they make all kinds of noises for all kinds of different reasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So for all we know, that\u2019s what\u2019s happening at Ole Miss. Maybe this frat kid saw a large, irate woman intentionally antagonizing him (and all of his friends). And maybe he decided to jump up and down to yell and mock her \u2014 not because she\u2019s black, but because she\u2019s being antagonizing and annoying. It\u2019s even possible he had no animus towards this woman whatsoever. After all, during this same interaction, the frat bros also referred to this large black protester as \u201cLizzo.\u201d And as we\u2019ve been told relentlessly, Lizzo is the paragon of female beauty. All women should aspire to look and act like Lizzo. So maybe in this instance, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Who knows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But here\u2019s the important point. Even if this student did what they accuse him of \u2014 even if he was imitating this Lizzo look-alike in a disparaging way \u2014 then at worst, he\u2019s guilty of making an inappropriate joke. You can call it racist or bigoted if you want to feel more oppressed. It doesn\u2019t matter. Whatever you call it, this is not the sort of thing that a kid should have his life destroyed over. There are much worse sins than engaging in a mocking dance for two seconds, no matter how \u201cbigoted\u201d that dance might allegedly be. And the response to this student should reflect that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact, at a public university like Ole Miss, it\u2019s also not clear that the school has any right to punish him at all. The First Amendment allows students at public universities to exercise their right to freedom of speech \u2014 which includes speech that many people find bigoted or offensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s been a lot of that kind of speech on college campuses in the last few weeks, if you haven\u2019t noticed. And there\u2019s no argument that this Ole Miss incident is somehow uniquely offensive and horrible, because pretty much every day, college kids are caught on camera doing something far worse than this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pro-Palestine protesters have said plenty of vile things. One activist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/24\/us-news\/ny-reps-lawler-desposito-rip-columbias-anti-israel-protestors-for-supporting-hamas-absolute-abomination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">held<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> up a sign at Columbia saying Jewish students should be Hamas\u2019 \u201cnext target.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Someone just <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/2024\/04\/reporter-questions-who-said-kill-the-jews-at-northeastern-pro-palestine-rally.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">yelled<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cKill the Jews\u201d at a rally at Northeastern University the other day. It\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2024\/04\/27\/protests-campus-arrest-northeastern-upenn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not clear<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who exactly said that, but you\u2019d think there\u2019d be some proportional amount of interest in answering that question. And of course, there\u2019s systematic anti-white and anti-Asian bias at all of these schools, in both admissions and hiring. And that impacts a lot more lives than whatever this frat boy was doing for two seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So if we\u2019re going to destroy this one kid\u2019s life over this two-second dance, then we should also expel all of these protesters and fire every administrator in every one of these schools. Until we do that, then no one should even pretend to care about this one Ole Miss frat boy being \u201cbigoted\u201d or whatever. It\u2019s so disingenuous it\u2019s actually nauseating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a point that goes without saying, but if this was a black student making racist statements and gestures at a white frat boy, none of these people would give a damn. The outrage mob would either ignore it or outright defend it. We know that\u2019s the case because they don\u2019t give a damn when white people are beaten to a pulp on camera. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, here\u2019s a story that precisely no one on the Left cares about. Remember the black guy in Brooklyn who was arrested for sucker punching a 57-year-old white woman in the face, breaking her jaw? He\u2019s reportedly a habitual offender who\u2019s done this several times. Here\u2019s that footage:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s another\u00a0 \u201crandom, unprovoked attack.\u201d They just assume that none of these videos of black people punching white people can possibly be racially motivated. They\u2019re all just random. The frat kid\u2019s dance is immediately determined to be racist, but a black person going around punching white people is just acting \u201crandomly.\u201d Well maybe the monkey noises \u2014 if they were monkey noises \u2014 were also random. Random things happen all the time, apparently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyway, that assault happened in March. What happened next?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a rare move in New York, prosecutors upgraded this guy\u2019s charges to a felony. They also wanted to put him in jail before trial. But the judge overseeing this case, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew Sciarrino, rejected the prosecutors\u2019 bail request. So he\u2019s back out on the street where he can punch more white women. And if you have a problem with that, you should know that the judge doesn\u2019t care. He just <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/04\/us-news\/nyc-judge-matthew-sciarrino-retiring-to-florida-just-days-after-setting-free-deranged-brute-who-broke-mom-of-threes-jaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">retired<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Florida. That\u2019s not an exaggeration. The judge has left the state. He\u2019s fled the hellhole of New York \u2014 which he helped turn into a hellhole \u2014 for a state that actually enforces laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I could give about a million more examples of anti-white violence that\u2019s not simply tolerated, but endorsed by the most powerful institutions in this country. And none of it gets a fraction of the attention of one white student doing a dance for two seconds at Ole Miss. But I don\u2019t need to go through all of these examples because it\u2019s not 2020 anymore. There\u2019s no excuse for anyone on the Right to fail to recognize what\u2019s going on here. When one side is allowed to commit racial violence with impunity, while the Lynch mob assembles to punish the other side for mockery and jokes, that\u2019s a pretty big clue that no one really cares about the mockery and jokes. It\u2019s all a power play. Unless conservatives want a beat-for-beat replay of 2020, which is clearly what the Left wants at this point, then it\u2019s well past time we stopped pretending otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As hobo encampments appeared on campuses nationwide, curiosity arose about students&#8217; staying power. 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