Commence

It’s nice to see all of the commencement speakers rejected lately by students. It’s the one area where the students have the tiniest bit of leverage, and good that they are using it.

But it’s got the elites up in arms, and their journalistic bulldogs telling the students what spoiled brats they are and all that. It’s sort of funny to see, since of course the elites still unaccountably and absolutely rule the country and being rejected as a commencement speaker truly does nothing at all to harm the individual or the institutions they are a part of.

They just aren’t used to being rejected, and that’s why it’s become a big deal. Telling someone “no” who has never been told that in his or her life in any real way is seen as a true crime, especially by those in journalism who both fawn over those already in the firmament of our society and who hope to move up to such status.

The offense in other words is being rude to a powerful person – even one who very much deserves it – when it’s not considered out of form to be unpleasant to a waitress at a diner somewhere.

In reality, both are the same.