There are some faculties the place this foolish little pro-Hamas protest does not appear to be working. Like SEC faculties, for one factor.
In Alabama, Hamas supporters and opponents briefly had a second of solidarity as they started to talk profanity in regards to the present president. Ole Miss college students, in nice type, referred to as one of many protesters “Lizzo.” In true Ole Miss fashion. The camps have been shortly handled whereas a number of arrests have been made in Florida, Georgia.
However, since I am a fan of LSU’s Bayou Bengals, I have to present a specific amount of pleasure on this video emanating from the campus of the state’s flagship college.
Our LSU college students are chanting at Hamas Glampers that their SEC championship is empty
So long as I reside, I’ll by no means recover from it pic.twitter.com/eX7TtHiGjY
— Three 12 months Letterman (@3YearLetterman) May 3, 2024
Counter-protesters used essentially the most harmful insults accessible to shout on the college students marching for the terrorists. A boy within the middle of the video loudly informed the marchers that they’d each zero nationwide championships and nil SEC championships.
LSU received nationwide championships in baseball and ladies’s basketball in 2023. They final received a nationwide championship in soccer in 2019, the identical 12 months they received an SEC title. Against this, Hamas and its supporters have by no means received an SEC title, a lot much less a nationwide championship in any sport, which makes their opinions on geopolitical issues completely nugatory.
Counter-protesters then chanted “USA!” began chanting. The professional-terrorist college students marched by LSU’s campus, a mild reminder that America is the one place the place you possibly can each win SEC titles. And A nationwide championship.
I sense an important pleasure in these LSU college students for standing as much as terror with essentially the most devastating insults.
Once we first heard in regards to the upcoming protest on LSU’s campus in Louisiana, all of us laughed and did not actually assume a lot of it. There wasn’t that a lot media protection, the occasion got here and went, and most of the people in Louisiana appear pretty blind to what occurred there. Which, frankly, is correctly.
After all, these college students have a proper to protest, they usually did so in a non-violent and not-horribly-disruptive method, so kudos to them at the very least. However they’re the flagship faculty in a deep pink state. This protest was largely shouting into the void, nevertheless, and it was unlikely to be something aside from a non-factor in persuading the individuals of the state to reevaluate their methods whereas supporting Israel.
However the counter-protesters actually have some extent, beneath all of it: Hamas shouldn’t be a successful occasion, and successful issues at LSU. We’ve got fired coaches with a greater report than Hamas. We parted with the coaches for actions much less scandalous than terrorism and calling for the genocide of Jews. There was no approach LSU’s general campus tradition would warmly embrace Hamas.
And that is why, regardless of its quite a few flaws, I typically love this kingdom.
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