Liberal protestors have upped their game since the days of now quaint-seeming sit-ins on college campuses. There’s a furore over whether the Trump administration is right to deport green-card-holding non-citizen Mahmoud Khalil for what it says is his support for terrorist organizations like Hamas. The controversy shows how far we’ve traveled from what anyone would call peaceful protest to, today, students taking over campus buildings, breaking windows, and preventing other students from walking freely on campuses like Columbia where Khalil was active.
When did “protest” become synonymous with criminal vandalism and threats and intimidation aimed at fellow students? It’s been at least since 2020, when Black Lives Matter “protestors” rioted in cities across the U.S., burning public and private buildings, cars, and more. The “protests” caused more than $1 billion in damage (that’s just counting the insurance claims), the most in U.S. history. The leftist media showed its naked contempt for reality and viewers, of course, by labeling the violence as “mostly peaceful.” CNN was widely ridiculed for showing live images of a burning city while the on-screen label called the violence “fiery but mostly peaceful protests”.
For modern protestors who don’t want to go all the to violence, but who instead want to appear to be “victims,” we have a melodramatist’s delight: the “die-in.” This is where demonstrators lie on the ground pretending to be dead in the mistaken belief that such a histrionic display will convince onlookers that their cause is righteous.
A group of Democrat theater kids just held a die-in in front of the New York Stock Exchange. They were “dying” in protest of what they claim were acts of harm done to them by President Trump, and especially by Elon Musk as he slashes through wasteful government spending.
Let’s take a look at the “gravestones” and see what they indicate about the protestors’ frame of mind.
“Fatal infection-abortion ban”—It was abortion bans that drove them to it, see? The woman had no responsibility for getting pregnant.
“Elon fired bird flu monitoring”—You got that? There weren’t enough monitors for bird flu, so humans are dying of a bird flu that doesn’t affect humans.
“SNAP cuts killed me”— “SNAP” (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is the new word so no one has to say “food stamps.” Apparently changes to the program killed the protestor despite the fact that he or she does not appear to be starving in the video.
Let’s see what X/Twitter thought of this latest set piece. We’ve got a few comedians:
What did I say about theater kids?
