The ever-increasing lunacy of the identity-politics jackboots

The three latest examples of identity-politics jackboots stomping the last vestiges of seriousness, maturity and dignity out of a nation destined to be conquered - and that includes the jackboots - by very serious jihadists.

At the University of Minnesota, you can no longer commemorate the worst enemy attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor:

The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns—insulting, childish concerns—that Muslim students would be offended.

Has it truly come to this? Is feelings-protection now such an overriding goal that completely unreasonable fears win out, even if they have no basis in reality? Can we not even have a single moment to recognize legitimate victims of terrorism without worrying that someone will feel marginalized on campus?

Theo Menon, a Minnesota Student Association representative and member of the College Republicans, realized that the university wasn’t doing anything to memorialize 9/11; on Oct. 6, he introduced an MSA proposal to do just that. The very short resolution asked the university to institute a “moment of recognition” during the mornings of all future September 11ths.

The resolution proved weirdly controversial. According to The Minnesota Republic:
At-large MSA representative and Director of Diversity and Inclusion David Algadi voiced severe criticism of the resolution. He also made sure to emphasize 9/11’s status as a national tragedy in his response.
“The passing of this resolution might make a space that is unsafe for students on campus even more unsafe,” said Algadi. “Islamophobia and racism fueled through that are alive and well.”

To be clear, the resolution did not refer to Islam. It did not impugn Muslim students, or other Muslims. It did not require anyone to contemplate the fact that the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were Muslims. It said nothing about whether Islam itself is to blame for global terrorism. It merely stated that 9/11 has had a lasting effect on many students, and ought to be reflected upon for a single moment, once a year. 

And if you're going to eat an item of a particular culture's cuisine, you'd better not talk about it being authentic:

According to Social Justice Internet, it’s totally fine to enjoy foods from other cultures — as long as you don’t call the food “authentic,” act like it’s out of the ordinary, or forget to get upset about Islamophobia every time you eat hummus. Yep. According to “The Feminist Guide to Being a Foodie Without Being Culturally Appropriative,” it’s pretty damned hard for you to eat anything but a cheeseburger without its author, Rachel Kuo, thinking you’re being offensive. Have you ever gone to another country and tried an “authentic” version of that country’s cuisine? If you said yes, you’re already a racist. According to Kuo, the word “authentic” should never be used when discussing another culture’s food because “seeking ‘authenticity’ fetishizes the sustenance of another culture.” “The idea of the “authentic” food experience is separated from reality,” Kuo writes. “It also freezes a culture in a particular place in time.”

And at the University of Missouri, the College Republicans circulated a petition to keep the campus statue of Thomas Jefferson, the removal of which the jackboots of that student body had  petitioned for.

The young black lady among the College Republicans has come in for a barrage of vulgar verbal abuse:

When the race activists on campus saw that one of the College Republicans, Jasmine Wells, happened to be a woman of color, they began to deluge her with hate via social media.

The intolerant leftists did the very thing they claim to be fighting against.
They attacked Jasmine with racist taunts simply because they disagree with her and she is conservative.

Tweets about her being an Uncle Tom and having Stockholm Syndrome.

The point of all this kind of activity is to paralyze us, render us unable to act or speak about anything related to our principles.

We look like fools to our adversaries and enemies. They are taking note of the erosion of our sense that anything important is at stake.

That, even more than the imposition of their neurotic silliness, their infantile narcissism, is the harm they are doing.