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Fill ‘er Up with Outrage
Do you want selective outrage, or would you like premium outrage? Watching college football Saturday, I was bemused by the delay of the Harvard-Yale game by the perpetually aggrieved climate change activists. They took to the field at halftime and delayed the second half of the game. A futile and stupid gesture because, other than Harvard and Yale alums named Muffy or Bink, no one cares about Ivy League football. That’s not entirely true, of course. Players and their parents care about the game so perhaps acting out at halftime is better than disrupting a graduation ceremony.
Tailgating around the rest of the country means charcoal grills, BBQ ribs, brats, and adult beverages, not to mention large recreational vehicles and gas generators to provide power for the aforementioned motorhomes. No tea and watercress sandwiches for the deplorable football fans.
There is a student tradition that occurs during the last Notre Dame home game of the college football season. The students toss marshmallows onto the field and the sidelines during the game. This year at the Harvard-Yale game, the marshmallows walked onto the field.
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I laughed.
It actually was a pretty interesting game aside from the protest, as Yale rallied from a 22-3 deficit to win in double overtime, 50-43. My only surprise is the protestors didn’t throw in some gratuitous swipes at football because of its system and inherent violence and possible future CTE brain problems, or at the very least toss in some non-sequitur “Stop Racism! Free Myles Garrett!” protest in there.
From what I read, the protest was not directed at the audience but rather at the universities themselves. The protesters were calling for the universities “to divest” their financial holdings in fossil fuel corporations.
The climate change activists are getting really belligerent and aggressive. People like Al Gore continue to stir up their emotions. They don’t care who gets hurt as long as their egos get stroked.
They should turn off the heat in all the dorms and classrooms because . . . climate change.
I think the “activists” should demand that the wealthiest universities among them should divest of their endowments. And the Feds should get out of the student loan business and tell the “wealthiest” among us to “invest” in their students, and be in charge of collecting said loans after graduation. Which of these universities is paying their “fair share?”
Well, that and so long as the checks clear.
How very cynical of you to say so. I like it.🙂
I want to ask them whether they realized that they interrupted and arguably ruined a really good moment for the Players of Color (POCs), gay players and of course, the many transgendered men on the team for whom this might have been a super-important validation of acceptance and belonging?
@GrannyDude I updated the Muffy, and Bink and paragraph. Thank you.
Faculties at these universities have been throwing mud at corporate behemoths for years. There is hardly a larger behemoth in wealth and privilege than Harvard and Yale. Bout time the kids figured it out.
The only thing those idiots brought “awareness” to is that Harvard and Yale do actually have football teams.
The “divest” thing kills me. When I was in college, South Africa was the monster, because of apartheid. So divesting from any business that was located there or did business there was the hip thing, yo. No word on divesting from Rwandan enterprises that may or may not have used a machete’ to kill hundreds of thousands.
No different now. We demand you divest, and when do we demand it? Real soon! Never mind that mommykins and daddums have 23% of their retirement in stocks that you’re now decrying, they earn dividends on, and that money helps pay for your off-campus apartment and your T pass.
Few things demonstrate a complete lack of awareness more than a Range Rover with a Divest Now! sticker on it, parked in a college campus dorm room parking lot.
I remember thinking when the “divest fossil fuel company stocks” first started coming up at universities a few years ago that the universities should first “divest” of their own use of fossil fuels for heating and cooling buildings. A little more intense support for divesting of fossil fuel use would be to eliminate campus shuttle busses and the gasoline and diesel powered vehicles used for facilities maintenance, delivering food, and removing trash and garbage.