1) Last Wednesday, Charlie Cooke had a post about the president of Smith College — who got in trouble for saying “all lives matter.” She was supposed to say, “Black lives matter.” Her contention that “all lives matter” was apparently racist. She apologized in the usual groveling fashion.

Ryan Lovelace, in his post below, says that Al Sharpton staged a march dubbed “Justice for All.” All? Isn’t that like, racist?

2) Ryan quotes a speaker making demands from the stage. The government, she said, must “stop the genocide of black and brown people here in America.”

This reminded me of an experience I had in college: The kids marched through campus chanting, “Reagan, Bush, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.”

What did they mean? They meant that the Reagan administration had slowed the rate of growth of social-welfare spending. Spending was still increasing (and probably not doing any good at all). But the rate of growth was slowed, slightly. “Genocide.”

“Genocide” actually means something. Whole peoples have been targeted for extermination — for mass murder. You can ask the Jews. When our moronic Left says “genocide,” they are being more than silly, they are being repulsive.

P.S. Before he decided to be a hero of the Democratic party, Jesse Jackson referred to abortion as “black genocide.” Heroism in the Democratic party requires strict devotion to abortion on demand. Jackson tailored his conscience, dramatically.

P.P.S. Lillian Hellman famously said, “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.” A fine sentiment. Hellman had the same fashion, year in, year out: Communism, especially as practiced by Josef Stalin.