Letters on University of Missouri victimhood, accident attorneys
President fired for not toeing P.C. line
Chalk up another victory for the political correctness police. This time the victims are University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe and chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, all because they did not empathize enough with the victimhood crowd.
News flash to the students who got them fired: All the things that happened to you on campus would have happened even if these guys had been black.
Every university has a code of conduct that all students are expected to follow, and if they don’t and can be identified, they are punished accordingly. That is all the “systemic support” that is required. Besides, what exactly did they expect these men to do after bad things happen on or off their campus? Join the protest in Ferguson before the facts came out? Nod their heads in sympathy as students scream at them at a homecoming parade? Wash that feces off that dormitory wall themselves? Weep uncontrollably every time a black student has a racial epithet flung at him?
Even if they had done these things, the fact they’re white likely would have meant their show of support would have been ridiculed or protested, because as far as some minority students are concerned, “they just don’t get it.” Well, they got it now – a pink slip because they didn’t grovel and toe the P.C. line.
Kathleen Butler, Wichita
Attorney ads galore
A contributor to Opinion Line observed that if the pharmaceutical industry didn’t have so many TV ads, it wouldn’t have to charge so much for medicine. I think the constant clamoring on TV by six or seven law firms in Wichita, all specializing in auto accident cases, must indicate how much they’re draining from insurance companies.
I know – they’re not doing it for themselves, but helping innocent victims against greedy and predator insurance companies, and they sure do make those innocent victims, or the actors who represent them, look happy.
Harry R. Clements, Wichita
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This story was originally published November 11, 2015 at 6:04 PM with the headline "Letters on University of Missouri victimhood, accident attorneys."