BABIES AND WHINERS – AT 8:55 A.M. ET:   While the world is riveted on the Paris attacks, and their aftermath, and fear for the next blow, our campus children are expressing their overwhelming grief and anger...not at terrorism, but at losing the spotlight.  What trauma they must feel.  From Fox: 

The deadly terror attacks in Paris killed at least 129, but to some protesters in the Black Lives Matter movement and at the University of Missouri, it's all about them.

Student protests and outrage over the school's handling of racial issues has brought national attention to the school -- which some students have come to define as a hotbed of racism. Recent racist incidents led to protests including one student's hunger strike and a threatened boycott by the football team. The university system president and the campus chancellor resigned.

After at least 129 people were killed in coordinated attacks on Friday in Paris, several protesters took to Twitter to express anger at "losing the spotlight" in the media.

"Racist white people kill me, you want everyone to have sympathy for YOUR tragedy, but you have none for ours," wrote user Melanin Monroe under the Twitter handle @NeonElectricity in a post that has since been removed.

Others, like user "dog enthusiast," under the handle @bmahimaaa, equated the slaughter in Paris with the racial tensions in Missouri -- calling both "terrorism."

"Paris attacks were terrorism," the user wrote. "black students getting death threats on their college campuses (A SUPPOSED SAFE SPACE!!) is also TERRORISM."

COMMENT:  It turned out that the student who went on a hunger strike comes from a family with a multi-million-dollar-a-year income. 

There may be some legitimate grievances in there, but it's awfully hard to feel sympathetic for vastly immature students who don't appreciate the chance to get a good education.  The filth, the cursing, the hysteria, are not very impressive.  There is a huge backlash building against these campus protests.  My own sense is that it will lead to a complete reappraisal of our attitude toward institutions of "higher education."  I am personally prepared to support a complete cutoff of federal aid to colleges and universities outside the sciences.  If you want to have an "oppression studies" course, pay for it. 

There are millions of Americans hurting these days, and they don't have full scholarships to Yale.

November 18,  2015