But what college newspaper would have published a column by a white student telling his black peers that they’re a wretched lot? Doing so won’t get us to the fairer place that we must inhabit, and it plays directly into Trump’s dirty hands. It may seem odd at this fearful juncture to point out any failings other than his and his abettors’. After the “abomination” column, Texas State turned into a furious, distressingly familiar theater of denunciation and counter-denunciation. I’m regularly stunned by the cruelty that’s mistaken for cleverness and the inhumanity that’s confused with conviction.

Source: New York Times December 09, 2017 19:41 UTC