Keystone Protesters' NYU 'Revolt' Ends With Hissy Fit
Caleb Howe
Via Hot Air. Allahpundit calls this comedy gold. Hard to disagree.The entire episode was keystone; you can just hear the comedic sound track to accompany the highlight reel from the 3-day "protest". When the camera man says "Alright, who wants to be a facilitator? Who can facilitate at this point?" ... well I nearly choked on my Perrier. Then when he said "I don't think they want water bottles, they probably drink corporate water" I actually did choke on my Perrier. I was dead for like 8 minutes. I saw Elvis. It was that funny.
What did the students want, you reasonably ask? Well ... nothing. Everything. "This is our school" seemed a popular refrain. Maybe they wanted to abolish tuition? First they demanded the potty, calling it a civil right, then they demanded "transparency" in the school budget. Oh, and money for Palestine. Or something.
Some 60 students - all elite, lily white and whiny - took over the cafeteria at New York University's Kimmel Center Wednesday night to stage not a party, but a protest. The kids showed up armed for slumber, with sleeping bags, camera phones, laptops and plenty of cellphones for the homesick to call Mom.
Ha ha. That initial assessment, from the hilariously titled article, "SNIT IN: Elite Occupiers Protest Against ... Stuff" at the New York Post, is confirmed in the video. The inventory of their gear was priceless.
The amorphous general "protest" ended with a fizzle, as reported by the New York Daily News:
"Solidarity!" the fist-pumping rebels yelled while being pulled from the Kimmel Center.
Four students tried to flee a balcony after campus cops breached their barricade. Others were physically removed - and unceremoniously dumped outside.
"He picked me up by the shoulders and dragged me through the door," complained Farah Khimji, a 20-year-old sophomore. "I was thrown to the ground."
The rest of the two dozen or so protesting students left like lambs and were greeted outside with cheers by supporters like 21-year-old senior Clara Green.
"We're not going to take it anymore!" Green yelled. "This is our university! This is unfair and unjust!"
Many of the other NYU students who watched the revolt fizzle said they still don't know what the rebels wanted.
"They're requesting so many different things," said Ryan Jacobson, a 19-year-old freshman. "None of it actually seems doable."
I've had some experience with protesters. These guys remind me of the crowds on the last night in Minneapolis. As the cops herded the protesters onto a bridge, after trying to keep them ruly for hours ... as it became clear that arrest time was coming and the smoke grenades and flash bangs were popping all around us, voice after voice chimed in to with variations on "can't we just leave" or "I just want to go, I don't even want to protest anymore!" You know, basically "oh wait, there's consequences? well then, I totally take it back dudes. I'm supposed to meet my bras in Halo in like, twenty."
The students dramatically scuffled with the police near the end, putting on "don't taze me" hissy fit performances like the young lady in the video I'm sure. The students are claiming they were beaten by police, the police disagree. I suggest the youtube savvy youths, clearly loaded with Apple products (go figure), maybe would have filmed something like that. You think? Yeah me too.
Ahh, politics. How you motivate the young. To do ... something. Anything really. Hey, "something" is the bar now, right?