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Starving, or starving for attention? That is the question that follows revelations that the University of Missouri graduate student who launched his hunger strike to protest white privilege is the child of privilege himself.
The Concerned Student 1950 group, which led the recent protests at the University of Missouri, had demanded that University President Timothy Wolfe “acknowledge his white male privilege.”
However, it has been revealed that Jonathan Butler, the student whose hunger strike kicked off a chain of events leading to Wolfe’s resignation, comes not from poverty and oppression, but from great wealth, the Omaha World-Herald has reported.
The newspaper reported that Eric L. Butler, Butler’s father, is an executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Union Pacific Railroad. Eric Butler’s 2014 compensation was $8.4 million, according to a required filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the family’s net worth tops $20 million.
Jonathan Butler, having topped Wolfe, now has grandiose plans for the future.
The group he leads is now seeking “detailed plans to address issues such as minority student enrollment; faculty, staff and administration recruitment; and health resources for students,” according to its most recent statement.
Instead of being governed by a board, Butler wants “shared governance” so that students, teachers and staff at the system’s universities have more input into big hiring and operational decisions.
However, an analysis of current campus unrest by John Hayward suggests students are less focused on policy than power.
“The grim truth of campus totalitarianism is that fascism is fun. It’s exhilarating to be part of an angry mob, and social media makes it easier than ever,” Hayward wrote on Breitbart.
“There’s a huge rush to crushing enemies, silencing dissent, and winning tangible victories against established order. If these tactics keep working, we’ll get more of them, and the students trying to get a real education will be left to wonder why no one has any consideration left over for them,” he wrote.
h/t: The Gateway Pundit
Big money has always been behind communist / fascist movements.
A government based on personal liberty is much harder to control.
Useful idiots are used like pawns to force checkmate by the real players behind the scenes.