Originally Posted by rhaikh
The action of students at Evergreen was shameful, but far less so than those of the Goldwater campaign and architects of the Southern strategy. Both should engage in penance commensurate with the damage dealt


Even if we accept this as true (which I don't, the spirit of both actions is the same even if the scale differs in regards to the examples used. In fact, the SJWs are basically attempting to engage in precisely the same behaviors you speak of, using the flimsy excuse of "they did it first" - calling them reactionary and regressive is no accident and quite accurate.) there is a major difference between the old Southern Strategy GOP architects and modern day SJWs: the old pols are long dead from old age.

Either old resentments and actions are something to move past, or they are something to justify yet a new generation of wrongs. It is clear that the 'new left' is mostly bent on abandoning the spirit of (though they will still hypocritically parrot the words of) figures like MLK, and are pursuing the latter.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)