If not from racism, how else do you explain a convicted white terrorist getting a teaching job at a prestigious American university?
Perhaps Monday’s bomber will be offered a teaching job at Columbia University.
Forty-three years ago last month, Kathy Boudin, now a professor at Columbia but then a member of the Weather Underground, escaped an explosion at a bomb factory operated in a townhouse in Greenwich Village. The story is familiar to people of a certain age.
Three weeks earlier, Boudin’s Weathermen had firebombed a private home in Upper Manhattan with Molotov cocktails. Their target was my father, a New York state Supreme Court justice. The rest of the family, was presumably, an afterthought. I was 9 at the time, only a year older than the youngest victim in Boston.
Boudin's presumably less-white colleagues from the Black Liberation Army who were caught will be eligible for parole in 2058, it seems. No faculty lounges for them.
Life is funny. Hey, just where are the DC snipers these days? At Harvard? Brown? Oh wait, the adult was executed. The minor got 6 consecutive life sentences. So tenure track is probably out for him.
But the DC snipers don't support the white privilege game. Oh, for a while they did. He and his young accomplice were only a white loner until they were actually caught and the pundits invested in red neck violence had to back off a bit. But I guess if the DC snipers were white, the liberal community would have welcomed them into their faculty lounges with enthusiasm.
Life is funny that way. Well, our left is funny, anyway.
UPDATE: Who knew there's a history? Tip to Instapundit.
UPDATE: Imagine the op-ed outrage if, after the Boston Marathon bombing, we had read a story titled, "Let’s Hope The Boston Marathon Bomber Is A Moslem"; and if after we identified the bombers as Tea Party supporters we'd read a story titled, "The Boston Bombers Were White Americans: So?" But we didn't. That would be Media Bizarro World. The template for our media is set. In our media, a backlash against jihadi violence is always about to descend on America. But in the main stream media, it always seems to land on conservative males.
To be clear, I don't collectively blame Moslems for Islamist terrorism. From 9/11 to the present, you will not find that blame game here. But the Moslem world surely has a problem. They produce more than their fair share of murderers. And too many Moslems don't care enough to combat the problems that produce those jihadis, or are too frightened to resist the problems that produce those jihadis. This unability and unwillingness to fight the jihadis exists despite the fact that jihadis have tallied up the biggest body count in the Moslem community.
